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How to Find, and Embrace, Your Company’s Hidden Experts

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Because the more we know what our “thing” is — the more we know our unique abilities — the better we can identify our inner “expert.”. Every company has hidden “experts” who, with some effort, can help support the organization by teaching what they know best — by sharing their expertise with the entire organization.

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Three Reasons Training Is Now a Profit Driver

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Develop subject matter experts in these areas and refocus the learning curriculum around the most significant or most challenging skills instead of on generic business skills (like communication, time management, and customer service). More : How to Turn Your Resident Experts into Star Trainers. He is the author of Fire Up!

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The State of Sales Training in 2012: Top Trends and Takeaways

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Here is what generated some buzz during 2011: Jeffrey Gitomer is writing the ASTD Sales Training Drivers blog. Geoffrey James, who recently published How to Say It: Business to Business Selling: Power Words and Strategies from the World’s Top Sales Experts, now writes for Inc.com. The TAS Group released their Dealmaker Index.

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Three Questions Every Workplace Trainer Should Ask

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Also, by asking about an employee’s strengths, you may be able to identify an internal, ready-made subject matter expert. Jay is a member of SHRM, ASTD, the National Speakers Association and the Florida Speakers Association. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Horia Varlan. Follow him on Twitter.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: On Guerilla Design and Video

Learning Visions

With easy-to-use tools at your fingertips, its getting cheaper and faster to go guerilla style and get the subject matter expert speaking directly to your audience in a matter of moments. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Skype, phone lines, iPhones/iPods, video cameras, etc. United States License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Authoring Tools Review -- Help!

Learning Visions

FYI anyone that has any questions whatsoever in regards to webex, training center I am an exteme expert. Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! -- Kineo Moodle f. advance simultaneously? Good luck!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points

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Use scenarios – apply what you know to make a decision.Ask the learner to take info that’s not clearcut and apply it using a question (in PPT – picture of a farmer and 3 images of “experts&# to ask for advice. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Whose advice do you follow?)

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