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Richardson, a leading global sales training
and performance improvement company,
announced a partnership with SAVO, the
market leader in sales enablement. Together,
the two companies have developed SAVO
Sales Process Pro Richardson Edition, an
application that allows sales and marketing
leaders to reinforce training and execute
best practices through coaching at each
stage of the sales cycle.
Pearson's business unit Pearson English
announced its partnership with the world's
largest social network for language learning,
busuu. The two companies are joining forces
to transform the way English learners around
the world measure their language learning.
The partnership gives busuu's 40 million
language learners access to Pearson English's
new affordable self-test, gSET.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. acquired
CrossKnowledge, a learning solutions
provider focused on leadership and
managerial skills development for $175
million in cash. Steve Smith, President
and CEO of Wiley, feels that this addition
position them as a trend leader in the area of
enterprise talent management by addressing
skill, productivity and performance gaps, and
a shift to e-learning solutions.
lynda.com, an online education company,
announced that it has acquired Compilr,
a software coding and development
environment that allows people to learn,
write, compile and test code from their
browser. This acquisition is a part of lynda.
com's growth strategy and underscores its
commitment to providing members with the
best personal and professional development
resources available.
GP Strategies completed its acquisition of
the Effective-People and Effective-Learning
companies to add to its GP Strategies'
Learning Solutions group. Leading providers
of human capital management (HCM)
solutions, Effective-People and EffectiveLearning offers sales and support of the
full SAP SuccessFactors Business Execution
(BizX) Platform, eLearning and blended
learning solutions, as well as recruitment and
employee development services.
getAbstract, the world's largest provider of
business book summaries, and Triple Creek, a
leading provider of enterprise social learning
and knowledge sharing software, formed a
strategic partnership that will provide mutual
customers with access to getAbstract's
business book summaries directly from
Triple Creek's social learning platform.
INDUST RYNE WS
Industry Pioneer Don Kirkpatrick Passes
Don Kirkpatrick, best known for creating
a highly influential 'four level' model for
training course evaluation, passed away
at age 90. A luminary in the training and
development industry, his four levels
of training evaluation created in the
1950s became the industry standard for
measuring the impact of training programs.
Adobe Launches Voice for iPad
Adobe has launched Voice, a free multimedia
iPad app that puts the creation of narrative,
animated videos directly into consumers'
hands. It is designed as a substitute
for PowerPoint-style deck presentations,
featuring real-time motion graphics, audio
sweetening, and HD video output. It's
targeted to small businesses, educators and
students who want to create an original
message with artistic flair, without the need
for photo or video experience.
Survey Results Show Many Leadership
Teams Out of Touch
AMA Enterprise, a division of American
Management
Association,
conducted
a survey of more than 300 executives
and managers that revealed that many
corporate teams operate as though stuck
in a leadership bubble. The leadership
bubble phenomenon is neither new nor
unique, according to the findings, but
leaders themselves are seldom aware of the
situation.
New Helicopter Underwater Escape
Training Program
Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a
subsidiary of Raytheon Company, and
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Petrofac Training Services announced a
first-of-its-kind offering under their jointly
owned Hi-Con Training program. The new
Tropical Helicopter Underwater Escape
Training (THUET) course was recently
launched at the Offshore Technology
Conference (OTC) in Houston.
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From Where I Sit
Table of Contents
Guest Editor: Developing Emerging Talent Pipelines
The Inherent Inertia of Training
Stop Harping on Generational Differences
Learning to Live the Brand
Leading through a Merger and Acquisition
Organizational Change through Applied Learning
Influencing without Line Authority: A Key Skill for Virtual Project Managers
The Currency of Trust: The Difference between Flourishing and Floundering
Building Buy-in for Learning Investments
Sales Winners Sell Differently: How Selling Is and Isn't Changing
From Mind-Full to Mindful: The Intention/Instruction Intersection
The Implications of Organizational Forgetting
Casebook: ADP: Improving Sales Process Effectiveness
Sustaining Training's Impact
Managing at the Speed of Business
Becoming an Authentic Leader
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