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A great business story starts with you

OpenSesame

As you find ways to articulate your vision for the business, don’t forget the central character – you. As the founder, your business story is compelling, and you should be prepared to step into the spotlight as the face and voice of your brand. . A company blog. Establish yourself as an industry thought leader. .

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What Businesses Can Learn From Nonprofits

The Performance Improvement Blog

.   This is the topic that Nancy Lublin, nonprofit leader and social marketing consultant to   corporations, addresses in an article she wrote for Fast Company Magazine that is adapted from her new book, Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business. Business tends to rely on money to solve problems and achieve goals.

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The Best eLearning Websites to Bookmark

LearnUpon

Articulate’s E-Learning Heroes E-books. Resource Type: eLearning Company Blog. Aurion Learning is a blog written by eLearning experts who use unusually creative techniques to help the company’s clients find a solution to L&D challenges. Resource Type: eLearning Company Blog. LearnUpon Blog.

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Why This? Why Now? “Working Out Loud”

Learning Rebels

They may be your L&D colleagues or team, they may be business partners, other people from cross departments, your network or long suffering friends and family. This not only applies to L&D but to everyone, regardless of business sector or department. Who the “others” are, is up to you. ” Now, you have synergy.

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

If your organization doesn’t like the idea of using Twitter for company conversations, then the next best thing is to set up some sort of corporate company (Twitter-like) network. Millions of blogs are hosted on WordPress.com, which allow any one to find their own voice. Yammer (on the 2010 list at #20) might be a possibility.

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Learning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?

Performance Learning Productivity

A fascinating article recently published on the Fast Company blog should be required reading for all learning and talent professionals as well as for leaders and managers. It often takes three years or more for a prospective cabbie to learn the details of all the the ‘runs’ in the ‘Blue Book’ and pass the tough Knowledge tests.

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How your brand affects your learning solution

Growth Engineering

It’s an easy thing to overlook, or take for granted, but your brand has a significant effect on your business. It’s the face you show your customers, the voice you use to address the world and it’s the first thing that comes to mind whenever your company’s name is mentioned. The brand is a framework, not a rule book.