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Assessing Training Effectiveness
There is no question about it. Training and development is gaining attention in Corporate America. The industry is growing and changing to achieve a variety of goals, from satisfying immediate employment skills shortages to meeting organizations' long-term strategic needs. According to a survey conducted by Chief Learning Officer magazine and Fairfield Research Inc., enterprise firms in the United States spend, on average, $3.7 million every year on learning and training. Total spending on corporate learning by enterprise companies is forecast to increase to $11.8 billion—a projected 4.3 percent increase in 2003.

The Exploratory Meeting
The Exploratory Meeting is a key element in the sales process. Typically the meeting will have been arranged after qualification over the telephone, and a decision made by both parties that it would be mutually beneficial to meet. It is the exploratory meeting that will allow the professional sales person to set the ground rules and get a ‘feel’ for the customer and their needs.

Why Financial Planners and Mortgage Brokers Need to Wake Up and Dream
Too many Mortgage Brokers and Financial Planners are working too hard doing the wrong things.. They are bogged down focussing on paperwork, compliance and technical matters rather than what clients are really interested in... dreams, goals, hope, security, peace of mind... It's time for all good planners to wake up and start dreaming...

Is Your Boss Making You Sick?...Study Shows How Leadership Affects Employee Health
How can corporate departments and business owners address the impending health issues during a time when most businesses are considering cutting back on various corporate training or corporate health programs? You may be surprised that the answer lies outside the realm of most corporate training or stress management programs. If you manage a small or large team in the corporate arena you can significantly improve your team's health and wellbeing without getting them to change anything. New research suggests that you can boost the health of your team by simply being a good leader.

Monetize Your Message: HOW to profit WILDLY in the new world of Speaking - Part ONE
During the golden age of the speaking industry, speakers found themselves being paid to motivate and inspire audiences all over our nation and beyond. Bureau agents presented us to perfect clients and meeting planners wouldn't think of bringing in an inexperienced "green" speaker for an event. We were valued and valuable. Companies and organizations had large training budgets that they would "lose" if they didn't "use". Oh, yes. Business was good. Now, we are seeing a new set of circumstances entirely....long-standing conferences being cancelled due to low participation.... Companies required to justify every $$ they spend are finding it hard to demonstrate the ROI of bringing in a motivational speaker. Speakers in general are being "booked" less often, and far too many speakers have invested LOTS of $$ for far too little return

3 Ways to Have Virtual Events Work with Physical Events
With the rise of virtual events in the marketplace, many show organizers and meeting planners are wondering how they could work together with their current physical event. This article discusses three major ways. Realize that virtual events are here to stay, and you should view them as a new and exciting tool in your arsenal, which allows you to bring people together to exchange information. The difference is simply that they are online rather than live. You could say that they “bend the rules of business.”

Accelerate The Quality of Every Meeting -The Easy Way
Courageous Participation Pays Off - For Everyone. Each team member accepts 100% responsibility for the result of each meeting. The success of the meeting depends on time spent - 50% prior planning, 15% conducting the meeting, and 35% participants' follow-up.

Don’t Read This…Unless You Want To Have A Really Good Sales Meeting
We’ve all sat through God-awful boring sales meetings right? Not exactly a good time, as I’m sure you’d agree… Has the thought ever occurred to you that your sales reps might feel like this almost every time you call a sales meeting? “Positively absurd” you say! Well, if you are one of the few who does have the need to inject a little vigor in your next sales meeting, then read on… Try this to spice things up: next time you call a sales meeting, try a little “lead by being led” reverse psyschology on your sales reps to get them involved in the process of choosing topics. All you do is simply ask your sales reps a week or two before the sales meeting what they most want to hear about is the best way to get them engaged and helps to “spruce things up”. After all, if you ask them what they want to hear about in the meeting you

Running Effective & Actionable Meetings
When properly planned and executed, meetings can efficiently communicate ideas, solve problems, and generate action items. Unfortunately, many managers waste time by holding unnecessary or ineffective meetings. Read this summary to learn how to run an effective meeting, and use Demand Metric’s Meeting Agenda Template and Meeting Minutes Template to standardize your meeting process.

The Case for Bringing Outside Planning Consultants In
Internal strategic planners clearly have their place in the corporate planning process. The deep insight and internal understanding of the inside strategists are hard to replace. Yet, with inside knowledge comes the side effects of political swaying, less objectivity, and “planning as usual.” Many of today’s successful organizations effectively combine an internal view with an external view to bring about a holistic approach to planning.

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