Executive Summaries

This page contains excellent Executive Summaries on various course topics and training skills to give you an overview of the essential points in a brief quick review format.

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• AI Phishing – Don’t Take the Bait!
  What is AI Phishing? AI phishing uses AI technologies, such as natural language processing and machine learning, to generate phishing emails or messages that are more realistic and harder to detect. These attacks can mimic human behavior, use correct… Read more: AI Phishing – Don’t Take the Bait!
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  Business Acumen – Keen Business Sense
  It’s a broad concept, really. At its essence, business acumen is about having a holistic understanding of how a company operates and makes money. It involves everything from financial literacy (understanding profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow)… Read more: Business Acumen – Keen Business Sense
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  Phantom Voices: Defend Against Voice Cloning Attacks
  AI possesses the capability to clone voices, which can potentially be misused for scamming purposes. To safeguard against the dangers of voice cloning technology, consider the following measures: 1. Be wary of emotional manipulation and act rationally. 2. Look… Read more: Phantom Voices: Defend Against Voice Cloning Attacks
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  Accountability in the Workplace
  Accountability helps to ensure that every employee will take responsibility for their performance and behaviors, and continue to manage this responsibility. When we implement goals and communicate with one another, we can achieve powerful results. Building an accountable workplace… Read more: Accountability in the Workplace
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  Skills Gap Analysis
  Skills Gap Analysis Every business needs a skilled group of people to achieve its goals. Doing a skills gap analysis will help determine which skills will aid in reaching those goals. It is important to analyze current skills and… Read more: Skills Gap Analysis
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  Personal Productivity
  Personal productivity involves managing time, energy, and resources to efficiently achieve goals using effective strategies, techniques, and tools. It is a subjective measure that requires finding and regularly adjusting one’s productivity system.
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  Mastering Efficiency with the Five Lean Six Sigma Principles
  The need for continuous process improvement has become a fundamental aspect of organizational success, as companies strive to increase efficiency and optimize their operations in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Organizations must continually strive to improve their processes in order… Read more: Mastering Efficiency with the Five Lean Six Sigma Principles
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  Modern Projects Management – Seventh Edition
  With the increasing demand for efficient project delivery, mastering the art of projects management has become a critical skill for both businesses and individuals. Project management is the practice of planning, organizing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals… Read more: Modern Projects Management – Seventh Edition
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  Creative Problem Solving
  In the past few decades, psychologists and business people alike have discovered that successful problem solvers tend to use the same type of process to identify and implement the solutions to their problems. This process works for any kind… Read more: Creative Problem Solving
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  Internet Marketing Fundamentals
    For a more in-depth conversation about the above and a great deal more about internet marketing fundamentals below is  more information on our course, click here to take you to the full Internet Marketing Fundamentals outline.   Video
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  Supervising Others
  For the full Workshop  click below Supervising Others Workshop  Supervising others can be a tough job. Between managing your own time and projects, helping your team members solve problems and complete tasks, and helping other supervisors, your day can… Read more: Supervising Others
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  Leadership Development for Women
                Women in leadership roles are powerful agents of change. As the business world is continuing to discover the transformative power of women’s leadership, it is becoming increasingly evident that this inclusion of women… Read more: Leadership Development for Women
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  Benefits of Human Skills/Soft Skills Training
    THE BENEFITS OF HUMAN SKILLS/SOFT SKILLS TRAINING FOR YOUR WORKFORCE AND YOUR SELF By Allen Phillips, Human Skills Development For many organizations, hard skills are at the top of the hiring list. That is, they are looking for… Read more: Benefits of Human Skills/Soft Skills Training
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  Employee Retention – Showing Respect
  Employee Retention Showing respect to employees can have a powerful  effect on morale and performance. Employee retention can be a challenge. Whether you have a small construction crew, or office, or a large corporation, you will agree that hiring… Read more: Employee Retention – Showing Respect
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  6 Tips For Building Confidence and Assertiveness
  6 TIPS FOR BUILDING CONFIDENCE AND ASSERTIVENESS We all have the power to change our confidence levels. Ultimately, taking control of our self-confidence will help us to take control of our lives. Confidence and assertiveness are practices that are… Read more: 6 Tips For Building Confidence and Assertiveness
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  Human Skills – Communicate
  What are human skills and how do they help us to communicate? The ability to communicate well helps a person to get along well with others. Communication is important in the workplace. Human skills are the characteristics of a… Read more: Human Skills – Communicate
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  Improving Your Critical Thinking Skills
  IMPROVING YOUR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS The ability to think critically does not just happen- it’s a learned skill. With endless amounts of information in the world, there is always more to learn. Although the development of critical thinking skills… Read more: Improving Your Critical Thinking Skills
• Simplify Your Training with Mlearning
  SIMPLIFY YOUR TRAINING WITH MLEARNING Can you guess how much the first cell phone weighed?Seriously, take a moment and guess. If you guess a whopping two pounds, you would be correct. The first cell phone came out in 1973. Since then,… Read more: Simplify Your Training with Mlearning
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  Training Industry Trend Predictions for 2022
  Why focus on training industry trends? With the continued evolvement of technology, a global pandemic, and a new generation settling into the workplace, the Learning and Development industry has unique and ever-changing needs. It has never been more important… Read more: Training Industry Trend Predictions for 2022
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  Learn To Problem Solve Through a Creative Lens
  LEARN PROBLEM SOLVING THROUGH A CREATIVE LENS When facing obstacles in your organization, there are a number of ways to accomplish problem solving and make decisions regarding it. Creative problem solving helps us look to challenges with an open… Read more: Learn To Problem Solve Through a Creative Lens
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  Boost Your Productivity: Overcome Procrastination 
  Boost Your Productivity: Overcome Procrastination We all procrastinate from time to time. Procrastination occurs when we avoid tasks. There are a number of reasons why someone may procrastinate. We may avoid tasks that we find unpleasant. We may also… Read more: Boost Your Productivity: Overcome Procrastination 
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  You Quick Guide to Workplace Bullying
    Training on preventing bullying in the workplace is crucial in creating a workplace that is inclusive and safe for all. Your company has a responsibility to prevent bullying and its impact. But what is bullying in the workplace… Read more: You Quick Guide to Workplace Bullying
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  The Corporate Trainer’s Guide to Staying Organized
    As a corporate trainer, you have many wheels turning at once. From identifying training needs, organizing logistics, preparing, delivering, collecting feedback, and more, there are many different things that need to happen to pull off good training. Corporate… Read more: The Corporate Trainer’s Guide to Staying Organized
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  Determine Your Training Needs – A Complete Guide
  Determine Your Training Needs – A Complete Guide Have you ever felt like you could see the potential of providing corporate training, but didn’t quite know where to start? One of the first steps of providing corporate training is… Read more: Determine Your Training Needs – A Complete Guide
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  Human Skills E-learning
  What Exactly Are Human Skills or Soft Skills? We prefer the term human skills to soft skills as they are the personal attributes, personality traits, inherent social cues, and communication abilities needed for success on the job. Human skills… Read more: Human Skills E-learning
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  Your Quick Guide to Creating a Positive Company Culture
  This guide highlights the importance of a positive company culture, crucial for employee engagement and safety, and beneficial for organizational performance. It outlines steps for establishing company values, promoting ethical behavior, ensuring managerial competence, and fostering employee accountability. Practical strategies include careful hiring, comprehensive training, and group planning to define and implement desirable behaviors and values.
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  Adult Learning is Unique – Apply it to your Corporate Training
  It can be easy to assume that the way individuals take in information is fairly consistent. However, have you ever considered how the dynamics of learning change as we age? Consider the strategies used to teach early elementary students,… Read more: Adult Learning is Unique – Apply it to your Corporate Training
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  Email Templates to Engage Your Trainees
  Are email templates important? As a trainer, what are your top priorities? Perhaps it is: Educating clients Consulting clients Helping clients with personal and professional development Helping clients meet their organizational goals Notice how I didn’t say email marketing? That… Read more: Email Templates to Engage Your Trainees
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  Your Guide to Trainee Feedback Surveys
  IMPROVE FUTURE TRAINING SESSIONS WITH OUR FEEDBACK GUIDE There’s no doubt that accepting and collecting feedback is important when providing any product or service, and corporate training is no exception. And while any feedback is crucial, being strategic with… Read more: Your Guide to Trainee Feedback Surveys
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  Icebreaker Cheat Sheet to Kick off Your Corporate Training
  How does trust and comfortability allow for more effective corporate training? Ensuring your participants feel safe and comfortable in their training workshops  allows everyone to feel empowered to express their thoughts and ask questions. This helps everyone being trained… Read more: Icebreaker Cheat Sheet to Kick off Your Corporate Training
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  Your Quick Guide to Measuring Results from Your Training Workshops
  How much time do you spend leading up to your training workshops preparing for them? Hopefully, you have fast-tracked your training with our white-label materials to save hundreds of hours of time by not writing your training content from… Read more: Your Quick Guide to Measuring Results from Your Training Workshops
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  Running Your First Training Workshop? Ease your nerves with our tips and tricks
  If you’re reading this, it means you are probably finally scheduled to conduct your first training workshop. Or perhaps you are getting back into training after a hiatus. Or maybe you are just looking to brush up on your… Read more: Running Your First Training Workshop? Ease your nerves with our tips and tricks
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  Hosting a Lunch and Learn? Make Sure You Review Our Checklist
  Are you looking to provide training opportunities to your team in the format of a lunch and learn? A lunch and learn is an educational training session where a topic is discussed over a lunch hour. They are generally… Read more: Hosting a Lunch and Learn? Make Sure You Review Our Checklist
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  Your Quick Guide to Anger Management in the Workplace
  As a Courseware Developer, Maria Eagles identifies the needs of trainers and designs/creates training and development programs to deal with anger management in the workplace. In this week’s blog post, she gives us her quick guide to anger management… Read more: Your Quick Guide to Anger Management in the Workplace