Monthly Archives: January 2011

4 Ways to Expand Your PowerPoint Creativity

I don’t know about the rest of you, but my Adobe PhotoShop and Illustrator skills are circa 1998. I can muddle my way through using them, but for the most part, I’m hopelessly out of date. How did I, a self-proclaimed professional student, let my graphic design skills become obsolete? I blame it all on PowerPoint.

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Managers: How To Know When You Need to Add Training

Potential clients often present me with a laundry-list of training needs, but in most cases training only ends up being a small part of the solution. Most small businesses don’t have the budget to hire a consultant to help them sort out training needs from everything else, leaving them to wonder: “Where do we start?” Read more

Infographic: 10 Hot Jobs for 2011 (and How to Get One)

We’re all hearing the same grim news on the U.S. jobs front: Nationwide unemployment sits stubbornly above 9 percent. The latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows no significant uptick in hiring. And the proportion of Americans who are either actively employed or looking for work hit a … Read more

Mindflash.com Expands Executive Team With Brand and Marketing Veteran

Dan Silmore joins the online training software company as VP of Marketing Palo Alto, Calif., January 24, 2011 – Mindflash.com, in its mission to provide the best online training software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that Dan Silmore has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. … Read more

How to Stay on Top of Training Demand? Know the Alternatives

As a learning and development professional, I have often struggled with the question, “how can we keep up with the constant and increasing need for learning and demand for training?” Organizations of all sizes are moving so fast, that as soon as we finish learning something new about products, customers, … Read more

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