International business consultant Steven Zeisler and professional development coach Carolyn Soles provide tips, best practices and 24 exercises to take your team to high performance. Learn more.
Instead of a written test, lawyers-to-be will prepare a hypothetical case and defend their work before legal experts. Students are presented with a legal case, and are then asked to spend two days interviewing simulated "clients," researching specific issues, preparing documents and negotiating with others. Learn more.
Actionwise, a business and management services company based in Johannesburg, found that over 80% of the reasons that a business fails are within the control of business owners and managers. Learn more.
The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada continues to support investment through the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The association sees this as vital to enable Canadian universities to expand, modernize and maintain world-class research and attract the world's foremost experts.
Throughout Ontario, professional engineers, engineering technicians and technologists and engineering and technology students will stage more than 100 events in 30 centres in order to raise awareness of the contributions engineering makes, and to encourage young people to choose a career in engineering. Learn more.
This web site promotes community-based literacy programs in the province of Ontario. Funding is provided by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and the National Literacy Secretariat.
Charlotte Mokoena, Telkom's Group Executive for the company's Centre for Learning, highlighted the value of training for human resource development leaders at the American Society for Training and Development global conference and exhibition. Learn more.
One of the fastest-growing sectors of Human Resources management today is online training, reports Oracle Corporation. Bersin and Associates estimates that the number of companies using online learning will grow by 50 percent in 2005. Learn more.
Lynn Johnston provides her personal perspective on the Canadian learning and performance landscape.
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Workplace skill improvement is a critical goal for most forward-thinking companies. I am certain that ASTD's initiative in applying and interpreting employee assessments, and planning appropriate learning and performance interventions will prove to be a valuable resource for corporate trainers.
Organizational change is a given in today's work world. Downsizing, mergers and acquisitions, technology upgrades, and process modifications are part and parcel of this change. What sometimes gets overlooked is the human side of managing change. This week's news feed offers some solid strategies for keeping the employee focus on inevitable change.