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    • Coastal's New Driver Training Program Takes You Back To The Basics

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      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.

    • Need to Enhance Peoples Performance?

      The Performance Solution | Wiltshire, UK |

      '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.

    • Coastal Shows Cultural Competency in Action with New Training Program

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      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.

    • Coastal Wakes Up Complacent Workers With New DVD Training Program

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      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 Puts the Brakes on Aggressive Driving

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      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

      Richardson | Philadelphia, PA USA |

      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.

    • Coastal Breaks Down the Hindrances to Handwashing

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      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.

    • Richardson Executives Featured on SellingPower TV

      Richardson | Philadelphia, PA |

      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 to Address Key Industry Challenges at ASTD 2009

      PeopleFluent | Hong Kong |

      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.

    • Mace Group Centralizes Training by Implementing Enterprise Knowledge Platform

      PeopleFluent | Hong Kong |

      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.

    • Training Synergy awards new IITT/BCS certificates

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry, UK |

      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).

    • Companies Expect Economic Recovery by End of 2009, says new survey

      The Ken Blanchard Companies |

      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.

    • IT Training Awards 2010 - time to start compiling entries

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry, UK |

      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 Partners with Bank Administration Institute (BAI) to Launch Online Sales Training Solution for the Financial Services Industry

      Richardson | Philadelphia, PA USA |

      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.

    • QA named amongst Top 20 training outsourcing companies worldwide

      QA |

      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 Sponsors e-Assessment Question 2009

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      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 Supports the European Integration of MBDA

      Communicaid | London |

      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.

    • Coastal Training Technologies To Sell STOP™ Training Programs

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      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 Wins Prestigious European Union Language Training Contract

      Communicaid | London |

      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.

    • Can you be Master of all you Survey?

      The Performance Solution | Bath, England |

      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.

    • Impact International celebrates success as 9th Best Small Company to Work For in the UK

      Impact International | Windermere, UK |

      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 and Raytheon Form Content Partnership

      Raytheon Professional Services | Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA |

      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.

    • Happy Computers Goes Carbon Neutral

      Happy | London, UK |

      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.