Virginia Beach, VA – November 16, 2009 – Coastal has released a new training program that demonstrates how healthcare professionals in long-term care can provide excellent care through world-class customer service principles.
QA has proven the quality of its service management training once again, scooping this year’s itSMF award for UK Service Management Trainer of the Year.
Hanging onto the best and getting the best out of them. The recession, or credit-crunch, (those two vastly over-used words) has thrown companies into turmoil for 2 big reasons. 1. How do you keep your best staff motivated when there is so much insecurity in jobs?
2. As the recession lifts, and more jobs become available, how do you retain your talent?
Dr Husam Baki, Technical Director at BTL Group Ltd, will be discussing 'The Future of e-Assessment' at the e-Assessment in Practice Conference, Shrivenham, on the 11th & 12th November 2009. Dr Baki will be supported by Seyhan Baki, Educational Advisor at BTL.
eCornell's suite of online Leadership & Strategic Management Certificate Programs has been named 'Best Leadership Development Program' at the 2009 Best of eLearning Reader's Choice Awards hosted by eLearning magazine. The winners in 16 categories were announced at the virtual eLearning Summit on November 5.
United Biscuits and Magnox South may not have a lot in common; UB is one of the world's pre-eminent branded snack businesses, producing some of the best known and loved products, such as Penguin and Jaffa Cakes. Magnox South is the contractor currently responsible for decommissioning five nuclear sites on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. However, they do both have one thing in common: they have an ongoing need to ensure that employees understand their technical processes; and they have both recently commissioned Information Transfer to help them do that.
BTL Group Ltd is once again delighted to support and sponsor the Assessment Tomorrow event on 11th November at the Hilton Hotel, Edinburgh.
Lancaster based software specialist, AccessPlanit, has just completed a highly successful project to install its 'Course Manager' software platform at the University of the Arts London.
BTL Group Ltd is pleased to be exhibiting at the Federation of Awarding Bodies conference held at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on the 4th and 5th November 2009.
A new learning portal, launched today, offers small-medium sized companies free training expertise and discounted prices on thousands of courses from the UK’s top training providers.
The list of the world's 50 most influential business gurus is published today (15th October) at the Thinkers 50 conference in Bucharest. Henry Stewart, speaking at the conference, is included in the additional list of 'ones to watch'. Henry is Founder and Chief Executive of Happy Ltd, an award-winning training provider based in central London. 'He is one of the thinkers who we believe will shape the future of business' explained list compiler Stuart Crainer.
Cornerstone OnDemand-sponsored session examines HML's integrated strategy for managing and developing its employees - and how this is driving real business results.
Staff from Bray Leino BroadSkill have taken a much-needed break from running one of the country’s most successful training companies to spend a day helping to improve the grounds and facilities at North Devon Hospice.
Staffordshire University is taking part in a pilot study to explore the issues and benefits involved in making its ‘stock’ of learning content freely available.
GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX), the parent of global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), announced that on September 4, 2009 its wholly owned subsidiary General Physics (UK) Ltd acquired certain operating assets and the business of Milsom Industrial Designs Limited, a provider of technical documentation, technical publications, technical recruiting and engineering design services.
Coastal Training Technologies expands its award-winning driver training series with Street Smarts, a program that reminds drivers to follow simple yet life-saving rules on the road. The Street Smarts DVD can be previewed FREE for 7 days with no obligation. To order, call 888-203-9811 and speak to an account representative, or visit www.coastal.com to watch a full-length online preview.
'Finally assessments that provide RESULTS for behavioural change' Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. 'The versatility of Extended DISC lends itself in inclusion in several of our Leaddership Development Programmes' Ashley Miles, Director, Worldwide Learning & Development, Pfizer Inc. 'There are many good assessment tools on the market for use in coaching and leadership development - Extended DISC is just more effective' Jerold Tucker, Principal, The Global Coaching Network Inc.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading provider of e-Assessment solutions, will be hosting a FREE half-day seminar exploring Skills Assessments created using e-Assessment tools. The seminar will take place on 29th October 2009 in London, and will be focusing on Functional Skills and Initial Assessments.
BTL Group Ltd will be speaking and exhibiting at the next series of Assessment Tomorrow seminars being held in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur on the 24th and 30th September 2009.
Remarc has today become part of QA, following the acquisition of the company. By joining QA, Remarc customers will have access to a wider schedule of training courses, across a greater number of subject areas and in more locations.
BTL Group Ltd is delighted to announce that, during the summer of 2009, WJEC - the Cardiff-based awarding body - successfully delivered the first ever on-screen A-Level examinations in England and Wales, using BTL’s Surpass e-Assessment solution.
Virginia Beach, VA, August 25, 2009 – Coastal just released its second Cultural Competency program Cultural Competency: Problem Solving with Communication. This new DVD illustrates how patients from different cultures can receive better care through respect and cultural sensitivity.
Richardsom, a leading sales training company has been named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list for the third consecutive year. Inc. 5000 is an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.
Coastal HealthTrain recently released Infection Control: Bag Technique for home healthcare, a new program that helps prevent infection before, during and after home visits.
QA, the UK’s leading provider of learning solutions, has further strengthened its position in the UK training market through the sale of its sister company, solutions provider IQ Sys.
An outsourced learning service implemented by QA for News International has successfully transitioned the organisation’s Learning & Development to QA, and has created new opportunities for the in-house training team.
BTL Group Ltd is delighted to announce a 6 year partnership agreement with AQA, one of the UK’s largest Awarding Bodies to develop and deliver their e-Assessment programme, TEAL (Technology Enabled Assessment for Learners).
Richardson, a leading global sales training and performance improvement firm releases a new Financial Services Industry report: Sales Trends and Strategic Initiatives. This report reviews strategic adjustments to business processes, practices, and skill development in the Financial Services Industry.
Richardson and ForceLogix form a strategic partnership to deliver a powerful platform that integrates the best practices of training millions of managers with an on-demand sales performance management application that integrates with most CRM systems.
Coastal Training Technologies has released Just Another Day, a new DVD program that dramatically reminds experienced workers of proper safety practices. The program addresses one of the ironies of workplace safety: that the more experienced workers are, the more prone they can be to the dangers. The safety awareness of these employees may be blunted by years of routine work. Confident and complacent, they treat the working day as 'just another day,' leaving them vulnerable to various safety hazards.
Coastal Training Technologies recently released Emotional Wreck, the third installment in its award-winning and best-selling driving safety training series. Emotional Wreck examines the deadly issue of aggressive driving, explains its causes and explores how it can be avoided.
Richardson launches RichardsonConnect webinar series - a series of complimentary online Webinars designed to help sales professionals to better navigate the challenges of today’s complex selling environment.
Amidst the swine flu outbreak and the occurrence of 1.7 million infections among patients every year, Coastal HealthTrain adds one more hand hygiene program, Hand Hygiene: The Best Medicine, to an already comprehensive collection on the subject.
The organisational desire to cut supplier costs has made ‘supplier management’ the up-and-coming focus area for learning outsourcing, according to managed learning specialist KnowledgePool.
Richardson Executives, David DiStefano, President and CEO, and Frank Donny, SVP featured on SellingPower TV.
The videos can be found on http://www.sellingpower.com/video/
NetDimensions (London Stock Exchange, AIM: NETD), a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, will address challenges faced by organizations focused on training and compliance at the ASTD 2009 International Conference & Exposition in Washington, DC.
QA has again been placed top of the UK IT training market in 2009, reporting revenues over four times that of its nearest competitor. The report, published annually by IT Training magazine, shows QA leading the top 50 providers.
Richardson features new SalesCallPlanner™, a break-through, technology-enabled planning tool, at Selling Power's Sales 2.0 Conference on May 21, 2009, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, MA.
NetDimensions (London Stock Exchange, AIM: NETD), a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems announced today that Mace Group, the global consultancy and construction firm, has implemented the Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) learning management system.
A Process Training program developed by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) was recently short-listed in the 'Best e-learning program' category at the Training Journal (TJ) Awards 2009.
On 18th March Training Synergy awarded some of its first certificates under the Institute of IT Training's new Trainer Performance & Monitoring Assessment service (TPMA).
The latest annual Corporate Issues Survey by The Ken Blanchard Companies suggests that over 70% of international companies asked are optimistic about the economy rebounding in 2009. Only a quarter of the 1700 executive, line managers, HR and L&D professionals surveyed worldwide thought the downturn would continue unabated into 2010.
With six months to go before the deadline date, it's time to be thinking about your entries for the IT training industry's most prestigious awards event, the IT Training Awards 2010, sponsored by the British Computer Society.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and performance improvement firm, today announced a partnership with Bank Administration Institute (BAI), the leading provider of information and intelligence to the financial services industry, to launch a new Sales Performance System. The Sales Performance System is an online training resource designed to help Community Banks and Credit Unions improve the performance of their frontline personnel.
The Institute of IT Training has announced that learning and development thought leader Bob Mosher is to fly in from the US to give the keynote address at this year's IITT National Training Conference 2009 on 23-24th September 2009.
QA’s Managed Learning Service has had a significant vote of approval from its customers, with several major contract renewals already in 2009. British Airways extended its Managed Service with QA for a further two years; BSkyB has renewed its service contract for a further 2 years; and QA has also been selected as a Master Vendor for eighteen subject and vendor curriculum areas for BT.
BTL Group Ltd is delighted to support the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) in promoting e-Assessment to AAT centres.
The recently held Tata Interactive Learning Forum (TLF) examined the role of learning and skills in enabling companies to stay competitive.
BSI Management Systems has awarded NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, certification for a Quality Management System (QMS) that complies with the requirements of the ISO 9001:2000 standard.
Global leader in learning solutions, Tata Interactive Systems, receives recognition for its corporate sustainability film.
QA’s Managed Learning Service has been selected as one of the top 20 training outsourcing companies in the world by TrainingIndustry.com. The 'Top 20' list recognises the leading training outsourcing companies for the high quality of their services and comprehensive capabilities.
BTL Group Ltd is once again delighted to sponsor and exhibit at the 7th e-Assessment Question Conference, being held at the Novotel St Pancras, London, on 18 and 19 March 2009.
Communicaid, Europe's leading Culture and Communication Skills Consultancy, has teamed up with MBDA, the global leader in missile technology, to deliver cultural training programmes designed to support the organisation's integration agenda.
KnowledgePool, the UK market leader in managed learning, has been named as one of the Top 20 companies in the global training outsourcing industry, for the third year running, by the US-based learning portal TrainingIndustry.com.
Coastal Training Technologies is now offering STOP™ (Safety Training Observation Program), DuPont's premier safety product. This training philosophy has been successfully used by organizations worldwide for the past 30 years. STOP™ effectively reduces lost workdays, increases productivity and boosts employees' morale.
Communicaid has recently been awarded the contract for the provision of all language training* to the European Commission in Brussels. This highly prestigious contract will see Communicaid open a new language training centre in Brussels in the Spring of 2009.
With at least 600,000 jobs forecast to be lost in 2009 there is intense pressure on organisations to drive up productivity and performance. For most organisations improving the individual and team performance of people is the clearest way to drive up the productivity and performance of the organisation.
A Cumbrian people development company has been named as one of the very best places to work in the UK in a prestigious business award. Impact International, headquartered in the Lake District, was ranked 9th in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For at the official awards ceremony on March 11th. Impact is delighted with the result, which is the company's best placing yet in an increasingly competitive and challenging environment.
Pearson Learning Solutions has formed a partnership with Raytheon (NYSE:RTN) through which Pearson will supply content, content development, and content licensing to Raytheon Professional Services (RPS) for their client training and courses throughout the world.
Leading training and development consultancy Bray Leino BroadSkill has redefined its core offer into three key areas - Inspiration, Success and Efficiency - to meet clients’ training and employee engagement needs in these changing and challenging times.
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and Internet research and training specialist, Econsultancy, announce that registration is open for the 2009 Masters in Digital Marketing Communications (MSc) student intake.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and performance improvement firm, today announced at the Selling Power Sales 2.0 Conference the launch of the Richardson SalesCallPlanner™, an online, real-time planning and training solution that integrates with all major Client Relationship Management (CRM) platforms to help maximize every sales call.
Happy Computers this week became the first training provider in the UK to announce it has become carbon neutral in its impact on the environment; and Chief Executive Henry Stewart says he will be happy to help other training providers do the same.
NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems announced the release of the Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) 5.6 today.
QA, the UK’s leading learning services provider, has kicked off National Apprenticeship Week (23-27th February) by celebrating a group of new learners taking their first steps towards achieving its new Credit-based apprenticeship Diploma qualification.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), was named the No.1 training outsource provider by HRO Today Magazine's 'Baker's Dozen in Learning.' This is the first time the magazine solicited input from customers to rank training outsourcing providers.
Global leader in learning solutions, Tata Interactive Systems, receives recognition for its corporate sustainability film.
BTL Group Ltd today published a case study covering its involvement in QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) tests; provides a detailed account of the requirements set by TDA (Training and Development Agency for Schools).
The first batch of IITT Authorised Centres offering the IITT's new Training Performance Monitoring & Assessment service (TPMA) are reporting significant uptake on bookings as companies sign up to get their trainers assessed.
- Up to £1,000 worth of business funding available through LSC's Train to Gain - Grants can be used for individual training courses or in-company training.
A leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, Giunti Labs, has named Stoas Learning, the Netherlands-based provider of digital learning solutions, as one of its 'implementation partners'.
Coastal's Personal Safety For Home Health Caregivers was honored with a Platinum Best of Show Aurora award and a CINE Golden Eagle award.
Harbinger Knowledge Products, the creator of Raptivity and Elicitus Suite of Products and Productivity4You which is its UK partner are pleased to announce that London Ambulance Service has chosen Raptivity and Elicitus Interactive eLearning Suite as its platform for creation of training for its staff. After a thorough evaluation of various eLearning tools, London Ambulance Service chose Raptivity and Elicitus for the ease of use and ability to create highly interactive eLearning content without the need of any programming knowledge.
Visitors gave their top learning tips at Learning Technologies 2009 to help share best practice learning and development with peers.
Richardson(http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and performance improvement firm, has again been named a 2009 Top Sales Methodology Training Company in the second annual list published by The Sales Training Community at TrainingIndustry.com. Richardson was also named to this category in the 2008 list.
Two European Leaders cooperate - and realize tailor-made language training - digital publishing and the Cegos Group have signed an agreement to promote their respective e-learning training courses.
Most recognised international prize in the education industry for German language experts digital publishing AG.
Financial services organisation explains how Cornerstone OnDemand’s learning and talent management system is driving employee engagement through building a ‘self-service people development system’.
Visitors to Learning Technologies 2009 will be the first to get a look at the new Training Impact Evaluator on The ROI ACADEMY stand. The Training Impact Evaluator provides an off the shelf solution for everyone wanting to measure training IMPACT and VALUE (also known as Kirkpatrick levels 3 and 4).
Tata Interactive wins Gold at Reader's Digest Pegasus CSR Awards 2008.
Premier IT will encourage visitors to switch on to the full potential of learning and development online when it exhibits for the first time at Learning Technologies 2009 (stand 104), on 28th-29th January 2009, at Olympia 2, London.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and performance improvement firm, today announced that Founder Linda Richardson's New York Times best-selling book, Perfect Selling, has been named The 2008 Landslide Sales Book of the Year in The 2008 Sales Book Awards and has also been awarded The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Award for the Sales category.
As organisations worldwide face increased economic and competitive challenges, the demand for effective change leadership becomes even greater. Yet according to Blanchard researchers, almost 29% of change initiatives are launched without any formal structure whatsoever, meaning they are effectively doomed to failure from the start.
The Performance Solution supports health and fitness with programme to positively coach obese children.
QA has further enhanced its Global Reach supplier management programme to remove both risk and administrative pain from the training procurement process.
Due to the current economic climate, many companies such as Marks and Spencer have been giving one off special price reductions.
The Performance Solution is pleased to be able to announce half price training in Extended DISC in January 2009, exclusively for those working in human resources, coaching, or training and development.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and consulting firm, today announced the release of the second edition of Sales Coaching: Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach (McGraw-Hill; 2 edition; November; $24.95), by Linda Richardson.
Harbinger’s ‘Double Deloitte’: Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific, Technology Fast 50 India
Ladbrokes, Britain's biggest bookmaker, is aiming to further improve the performance of its UK shop business by introducing a series of HR initiatives and creating a more supportive management style. The HR initiatives include a new focus on performance management and talent management. The company has also created a leadership framework and it is working with learning specialist KnowledgePool to design, develop and deliver new training programmes.
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for the learning and technology industries, has announced its 2008 salary and work survey - and participants can win an iPod Touch worth £219.
NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, announces that DAK Americas LLC, a leading producer of PET Resin, Polyester Staple Fibers and raw materials for polyester-based products, will be transitioning their training programs and implementing the NetDimensions' Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP).
A sales simulation created by global learning solutions developer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) for telecom major, Telus has made it to the final round of the IT Training Awards.
According to Vijay Kumar, Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – and an advisor to India’s National Knowledge Commission – the traditional education model has been based on scarcity and assumed limited educational resources.
Exploring a compelling vision of learning in the 21st century; demonstrating how 'learning' can ensure economic survival in the light of the current global financial crisis, and promoting technology for 'upskilling' learning as well as building knowledge and skills within professional communities are the priorities for The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) in 2009. These priorities were agreed at the organisation's annual general meeting (AGM), which was held in Sestri Levante, Italy, at the end of October and hosted by Giunti Labs, a leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, whose CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, is chair of ELIG.
Today see the launch of the Forces Business Network (FBN), a business networking facility for ex-serving members of the UK Armed Forces that also aims to support and raise money for related charities. The FBN was created by Premier IT, the workforce performance improvement specialist and Gemini Resourcing UK, an independent, multi-sector recruitment agency.
Employee Performance Management report praises Cornerstone's software suite for global capabilities, user experience, breadth and configurability.
The fifth annual Tata Interactive Learning Forum (TLF) 2008 brings together industry thought leaders to share strategies and meet challenges in learning solutions and corporate training.
Blue Eskimo, the leading recruitment agency to the training and e-learning sector, has been successfully inspected by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, the body dedicated to improving recruitment practices in the UK.
Coastal HealthTrain offers a program that deals with a perennial threat to healthcare professionals. BBP In Your World: Don't Risk It examines the ever-present danger of bloodborne pathogens and explains how they can be prevented. The program identifies common BBPs, traces their transmission routes and cites infection-control measures.
Global people development company Impact International has been short-listed for a prestigious World of Learning Award. Joining just three other finalists in the Coaching Programme of the Year category, Impact was selected for its innovative work with Barclays Bank. The awards recognise organisations and people who have significantly advanced workplace productivity and performance within the field of learning and development. Impact's innovative methodology develops leadership and coaching skills through the medium of movement.
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