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As we’ve mentioned in earlier information, future audiences for training products and activities probably won't have as much patience for extended courseware as did past learners. Learn more why learning behavior is changing.
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An initiative of our associates and members leads to the concept "BEST OF TRAINING". IITN offers for the first time non-members to participate in world-leading training concepts from Top 100 Companies.
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As many in the mobile learning industry state, several challenges exist that need to be addressed in order for mobile learning to have a permanent place in mainstream education. These include technology limitations of teachers, costs of devices and infrastructure, and the slow rate of adoption in educational institutions.
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This is to inform you about two great opportunities to improve performance and learning.
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Regardless of the size of your business, given the current economy, the ability to manage change—and stay ahead of any potential issues related to it—is critical. But where do you begin, and how can your change-management efforts be sustained? John Kotter, Harvard Business School professor, founder of change-management firm Kotter International and author of the seminal book, Leading Change, outlines eight keys to implementing and maintaining positive change
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International Innovative Training Network announces a series of outstanding training and benchmarking meetings for those who want to learn from internationally well-known experts and to discuss chances and possibilities to improve performance within their own companies. Hurry, it's free of charge. Limited number of participants.
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ICL of California is a leader in development of Blended-Learning-Systems and a content creator for many global players. ICL developed over the time a series of state-of-the-art tools like TOPSI Top Selling Inventory and ELSY Easy Learning System. Most of its tools are award winning tools. Now these tools are available to its International European Training Network.
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Congratulation. ISRG Inc. develops and sells technology for doctors to robotically perform surgery. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company uses LMS to design and deliver a sophisticated web-based training platform that offers not only a central repository for clinical data but also a blend of classroom, online and self-paced courses.
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Slavery‘s New Face. Slavery is a harsh reality for millions of people the world over who find themselves trapped in an exploitative and abusive system, bought and sold like objects, and treated without dignity or human decency.
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It was an unanimous vote. Reinhard Semkowsky has been re-elected as President of the International Innovative Training Network (IITN).
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To participate in the "IITN World Award of Excellence in Education" you need to enroll before June 10th. 2009. Don't miss your chance to win this unique prestigious award this year.
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Changes in EU-law and government advice forces banks and insurance companies to ensure that their sales and consulting representatives have the qualification to give clear and qualitative advice within sales talks. The International Innovative Training Network (IITN) offers with CSL 1037.1 : 2007-01 certification the opportunity for companies of these industries to reach the goal.
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With ELSYonline you can learn anywhere, for example on your cellphone. ELSYonline is the most advanced technology for real mobile learning. For learning with ELSY you can use the iPhone, Blackberry, Android and other multimedia devices, eePcs and Net PCs, laptops and of course any regular computer with internet access.
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With the iPhone apple redefined the mobile phone. With ELSYonline the Mobile Learning GmbH, a Swiss Company, redefines mobile learning. Be sure to visit www.ELSYonline.com from the beginning in january 2009. IITN has had the possibility to "visit the future of learning" in advance.
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This years award honored an educational social project: "Education through work"
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The 18th. september 2008 was an important day in the history of the Leadership Academy Switzerland and the St. Gallen University. About fifty high ranked experts and scientists from market leading European companies and universities discussed "Game Based Learning" and "Intelligence".
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Annually the meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and the Annual International Women’s Day provides an opportunity to focus on the employability and life issues that women face all over the world. In 2008, the heads of the world’s nations made commitments in Beijing, China to ensure girls’ and women’s lives and their status and dignity improve.
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Competencies are measurable – with TOPSI, Top Selling Inventory® An interdisciplinary research group under the guidance of Reinhard Semkowsky, Ph.D., identified «the 10 success-relevant basic competencies for selling». Furthermore the group also developed a scientifically proven procedure to measure these competencies: the Top Selling Inventory®.
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Human Trafficking is the fastest growing crime today. More than 27 million people worldwide are held as slaves. The International Innovative Training Network has joined some powerfull initiatives to stop this crime. Learn more.
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"We just had a closer look on this years concepts of the candidates for the World Award of Excellence in Education 2008, and it seems to be an excellent year for innovations within the field of HRD and training" Prof. Dr. Willi J. Eggeling, chairman of IITN's jury said.
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Attract new clients without relying on interruption-based marketing (push marketing) to grab their attention. Each month ICL of California has hundreds of people who optin to email newsletter on podcasting. These people are all coming from “attraction methods.” This is called pull marketing. Each month the German based MFM company gains important new customers with "Customer Integrated Learning" techniques. This is an outstanding pull marketing strategy.
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A shift has occured in the world of marketing, one which chooses experience over passive instruction, trusted advice rather than blind suggestion, real background information to learn and "look behind the scene" instead of simple advertising or push-marketing measures.
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Ad Age reported that McKinsey & Co. has a new report that finds that by 2010, traditional TV advertising will be one-third as effective as it was in 1990.
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CHILDREN as young as six are being targeted by mobile-phone makers in a battle for "cradle to grave" brand loyalty, a report has found.
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Poor communication is the result of many factors. The following list represents some of the most common barriers.
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This high ranked meeting of experts, organized by The Leadership Academy of Switzerland and the University St. Gallen gave outstanding insights into the success factors of learning. The participants were top level HRD executives and board members of the main European companies, administration and military.
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Decisions confront us every day, ranging from the simple „What shall I wear today?“ to the complex „Shall I make a career change?“. For most of us, decision making is a straightforward process. Think of a few solutions. Weigh the pros and cons of each. Choose the one that seems best to fit your needs.
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"Negotiation is to make sure that you don't win the battle and lose the war."
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We're in the midst of an e-learning revolution, which brings with it rapid change, a myriad of emerging technologies, and greater opportunities to generate significant business returns on e-learning investments. During this period, technology has progressed in a series of evolutionary stages, which have had an increasingly profound impact upon the speed, content ownership, cost, flexibility, and business benefits of e-learning solutions. Reviewing the last five years of market developments reveals the emergence of LCMSs as a platform of choice for many companies seeking fast deployment of e-learning.
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A checklist to enjoy life more.
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“Top 10” values and suggests you consider the ways in which they can be communicated in your organization and what you can do to support them.
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Regular surveys of thousands of OU students by the Institute of Educational Technology show that on-line activity is one of the least popular elements of OU courses.
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International Innovative Training Network (IITN) offers to examine teaching and learning processes according to the international standards of CSL 1037.1 : 2007-01, thus offering interested companies and institutions a real benchmarking for their HRD and training activities.
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The adage that it costs less to retain customers than get new ones (in fact, depending on your industry, estimates are that it can take five to 10 times as much) has been around so long because it’s true. The deeper you can drill into your current client base, the more you can depend on ongoing sales. It’s been proven that you can boost profits when you get customers to buy larger, more expensive or more comprehensive products or services, or find a way to increase their buying frequency.
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Learn more about motivation
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A woman's point of view. Learn, how things changes in the former communists countries.
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Decisions, decisions, decisions. It seems like every time we turn around, we have to make more decisions. The question is, "Are you a good decision maker?" If you aren't (or don't think you are), there is no need to worry. Decision-making is a skill that can be learned by anyone. Although some people may find this particular skill easier than others, everyone applies a similar process.
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If you’re heading into the New Year with a growing business, you might feel it necessary to take steps to gain greater control. What you may be after is a more concrete system to manage your time.
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Trainers and teachers of adults can use such useful information to improve their efforts.
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E-learning is an international phenomenon. Effective delivery of E-Learning must overcome external, internal, and cultural constraints; the question is what constraints are critical? Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a systematic approach to identify critical constraints with a series of tools. These tools have improved the performance for numerous organizations in manufacturing industry and service industry. By clarifying intuition with these tools, such as: the cloud, the branch and the target tree, TOC has successfully been applied in education and e-learning. Cultural differences and international boundaries are easily included in the e-learning paradigm.
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With the introduction of Age Discrimination legislation (UK October 2006, and consistent with European law), there is an increased need to raise awareness and to train people about ageism and age discrimination. Here are some ideas for activities and exercises which will highlight the issues.
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The future of training will be based upon three facets: focusing upon the learners, empowering the learners, and building Best-of-Breed training programs. Learn more …
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Picture yourself on the phone speaking with a high-level executive from one of your suppliers. You are „in the zone“ and are in delicate negotiations to build a lasting, profitable relationship. Suddenly, your concentration is shattered when one of your team members knocks on your door with another question about the task you assigned last week. Now, let‘s stipulate that you took all of the preparatory steps to enable them to succeed in this task. Among other things, you set a clear, definable, quantifiable and attainable goal; provided them the necessary resources; and identified an aggressive yet reasonable timeline. If they still seem timid about running at supersonic speed to complete the task, then it may be time for a different approach.
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Conflict occurs when individuals or groups are not obtaining what they need or want and are seeking their own self-interest.
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ELSY® is an international award winning blended-learning system that specifically helps to create your own multimedia courses without any programmer's knowledge.
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The brave new world of ambient intelligence is almost upon us. For those who have not been watching the future, ambient intelligence is the buzz phrase describing a world in which “intelligence” is embedded in virtually everything around us.
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Marketing is the process of planning and executing the development, pricing, promotion and distribution of products and services to targeted customers. Using this standard, say marketing experts Mitch Goozé and Jack Harms, everyone in your organization is ultimately involved in marketing in some way -- not just some narrowly defined „marketing department.“
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A transformation is taking place in the way that you and your customers use the mobile phone. This is creating both business opportunities and threats. Mobile Learning GmbH, Switzerland, help businesses to increase revenue and reduce cost through the imaginative and often disruptive use of mobile technology.
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In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act.
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In their irreverent but on-point GrokDotCom site (www.grokdotcom.com), as well as in ClickZ columns, the Eisenberg brothers have been educating readers about the online sales process for some time. This marvelous slim book pulls together -- in a clear and very readable fashion -- their insights into how words influence selling on the Internet.
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Learn more about the planning game for business process reengineering.
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International Innovative Training Network (IITN) offers to examine teaching and learning processes according to the new international standards of CSL 1037.1:2007-01, thus offering interested companies and institutions a real benchmarking for their HRD and training activities.
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Exercises and activities linked to christmas and other celebrations. These activities ideas are not only for Christmas. They'll adapt for other seasons and celebrations. Use these activities sensitively. If there's a risk of causing offence then adapt them or avoid them. The ideas are meant to be fun, underpinned by some useful questions and learning. Split the group however suits you (teams, pairs, or threes probably best). Arrange presentation, discussion, review, etc., to fit your situation.
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ELSY® is an international award winning blended-learning system that specifically helps to create your own multimedia courses without any programmer's knowledge.
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Take a minute to look at yourself as a leader. Do you have the qualities to make a valuable leader to your group? Review the leadership qualities and put yourself to the test.
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