Allison Rossett

MAY 23, 2013

Mobile was the buzz at the ASTD International Conference in Dallas in May, 2013. Here I present four ways that a retailer and their vendors used mobile to help retail sales associates increase sales and engender customer loyalty on the day after the Oscars. Much of mobile training and development is broken.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Coach, mentor and educate as needed. Company strategy: Increase sales volume of a new product line by x%. Create internal training program to improve how sales force sells the product; ensure all sales employees participate in training and pass assessment with a score of x% or greater by x date. A practical example.

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Learning Visions

MAY 24, 2011

These are my notes from a session with Allison Rossett “Falling in Love All Over Again—With ISD” at ASTD ICE in Orlando, May 24, 2011. Example of sales training in pharma: Find the lesson or message you want them to know. Forgive typos and incoherence… ** ISD got its start in WWII – when the country was preparing soldiers for war.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Learning Coach Model Very Powerful In 2010, I had a great experience where Dr. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning. Please let me know if you want to be a Learning Coach for me on another topic. I’ve had to find ways to filter the flow and figure out when/how to reach out.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 21, 2012

My fear is that a CEO will walk into a training department after having read an article in the Harvard Business Review about Gamificaiton and demand that the training department create a gamification program to train sales reps. and they say “Of course!”. We have then met the needs of the CEO and created a meaningful learning experience.

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Mindflash

AUGUST 2, 2011

One-on-one coaching time with management. Depending on where the employee is in his or her performance development, the employee can have one-on-one coaching (because our organization is small, our sales employees have weekly personalized coaching). He is the author of “Fire Up! follow him on Twitter.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We measure how many people have attended a class or completed an eLearning module, or read a document or engaged in a job swap or in a coaching relationship. ATD has been producing this annual report for years (originally as the ASTD). Sales teams will inevitably have various measures in place to collect and analyse sales data.

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Mindflash

MAY 29, 2012

Sales employees had their materials loaded on to CDs to use while they traveled. Partner each employee with an education coach or mentor whose responsibility is to ensure the commitments made by the employee during the program are lived up to. Independent learners had self-directed materials. He is the author of Fire Up!

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

You don’t hear about tools like these at ASTD meetings and traditional training gatherings. Someone suggested letting people model scenarios with puzzle pieces purchased at garage sales. (I In the workplace, 70% of learning is experiential, 20% comes from interactions with others like coaches and mentors, and 10% is formal.

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Web Courseworks

DECEMBER 23, 2014

This concept comes from Shawn Casemore, who has worked with association boards and nonprofits to provide strategic formulation and coaching. Some guesswork is involved here, as you can play around with the sales volume, product pricing, and profit margin to come up with all sorts of scenarios to present to the board.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 21, 2012

My fear is that a CEO will walk into a training department after having read an article in the Harvard Business Review about Gamificaiton and demand that the training department create a gamification program to train sales reps. and they say “Of course!”. We have then met the needs of the CEO and created a meaningful learning experience.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 15, 2011

Create an opening scene that demonstrates something negative that happens as a result of a lack of understanding—perhaps a workplace injury occurred…or a sale was lost. We used to send the managers an update of who took a course and then provided some additional coaching tips so that their staff could continue to be developed.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 21, 2012

My fear is that a CEO will walk into a training department after having read an article in the Harvard Business Review about Gamificaiton and demand that the training department create a gamification program to train sales reps. and they say “Of course!” We have then met the needs of the CEO and created a meaningful learning experience.

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The Learning Circuits

MARCH 5, 2007

This month's big question actually was a question asked by an attendee at Jay Cross' presentation on informal learning at ASTD TechKnowledge. She was in charge of designing training and support systems to help people transition into management roles throughout the organization (customer service, sales, operations, etc.).

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 21, 2009

How To Add Realism To eLearning - The eLearning Coach , July 17, 2009. eLearning Development: Instructional Design Lessons from a Sales Trainer - Upside Learning Blog , July 11, 2009. The Disciplines of Modern Enterprise Learning - The ASTD BIG QUESTION for July’09 , July 15, 2009.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

Knowledge Acquisition -- searches Coaching or Mentoring -- reaching out to other people and connecting to other people (not just repositories of inf.knowing who to talk to). Sales people cant remember all the products -- can you provide a quick tool to find the right product for a customer? Shouldnt be highly dense, more bulleted.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 18, 2014

So, for example, I think future workplace learning will look like always-on coaching and mentoring. Different roles from the same organization, when visiting a particular site, are likely to need different resources; so a field service engineer visiting a client site is likely to need different support than a sales person.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 16, 2014

So, for example, I think future workplace learning will look like always-on coaching and mentoring. Different roles from the same organization, when visiting a particular site, are likely to need different resources; so a field service engineer visiting a client site is likely to need different support than a sales person.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

NCR delivered the first sales training. ASTD is born. You’re redeploying training staff as mentors, coaches, and facilitators who work on improving core business processes, strengthening relationships with customers, and cutting costs. GE started its corporate schools. Factory schools appeared in Europe.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 27, 2011

Social media can reach different audiences: New employees and recently trained can now connect with each other Expert employees who got missed by training – now have a way to contribute and can become mentors and coaches. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sales Fitness Center Sales professionals. They will be at ASTD ICE in Orlando.

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Allison Rossett

DECEMBER 6, 2012

ASTD’s 2011 Annual State of the Industry (SOIR) Report found even punier use of mobile for learning and support. ASTD’s 2011 Learning in the Palm of Your Hand report identified the same halting progress, accompanied by little action on mobile strategy or investment. ” Most were not. Two suggestions.

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learnWorlds

MARCH 30, 2022

Management & coaching skills. Alex is a Customer Success Executive with experience in building post-sale teams to reduce churn and increase growth at high-growth B2B SaaS scale-ups. Executive Coaching. Industries: Coaching, Training, CS Consulting. When Sales Met Customer Success: A Love Story. Documentation.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Using Graphics To Improve Learning - The eLearning Coach , August 4, 2010 What are you doing about the picture superiority effect? Post from: The eLearning Coach Using Graphics To Improve Learning. Post from: The eLearning Coach How To Integrate Multimedia For Effective Learning. So, what’s changed? There are other ways.

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eLearningArt

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

After a survey with my marketing, sales, and custom training services teams, I can identify what were most frequently identified as 2017 trends. Connie, known online as the “eLearning Coach,” is the author of Visual Design Solutions , a top rated eLearning design book. Michael Allen. tweet this image]. Learn more about Alan here.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Using the iPad in Sales Training: Case Study by Lora Davis - Learning Solutions Magazine , July 19, 2010 While many e-Learning producers are struggling to understand how the iPad may be useful in online. instruction, one sales training team has already been successful in using Apple’s new device in blended. They’re bound to help.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

Most of what we learn, we learn from other people — parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, playmates, cousins, Little Leaguers, Scouts, school chums, roommates, teammates, classmates, study groups, coaches, bosses, mentors, colleagues, gossips, co-workers, neighbors, and, eventually, our children.

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

NCR’s John Patterson invented the flip chart and conducted the first formal sales training. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reports that companies spend $1,067 per employee (2.7% ASTD measures only formal training, the workshops, classes, and assignments meted out by training departments. References.

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