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An epidemic of coarse and obnoxious behavior is in full swing. Is there anything to be done? ITEM: Ex-professional wrestler and middle-aged action figure Jesse Ventura, now Minnesota's governor, strong-arms [...]

Is trainer certification a hot ticket - or a solution in search of a problem? You're standing and delivering: You, the western region sales manager of Tireless Corp., teach the [...]

Many current ideas about workplace learning build on foundations laid by Malcolm Knowles. His theory of andragogy describes the art and science of helping adults learn. Malcolm S. Knowles died [...]

IN TODAY'S TIGHT LABOR MARKET, EMPLOYERS USE A VARIETY OF LURES TO HIRE SKILLED PEOPLE. STILL, MANY ARE COMING UP SHORT. 'Jane Doe' was having a bad day when she [...]

One of our foremost management thinkers shares his views on the changing nature of leadership. Warren Bennis is a name most of us associate with the study of leaders and [...]

A trainer deep in a pocket of one of AT&T's corporate education and training organizations hesitates when asked what his title is. 'Let's see, today it's . . . .' [...]

The annual performance appraisal may be the most universally hated ritual in corporate life. 'Performance management' eliminates the surprises, if not the pain. 'Performance appraisals are that occasion when, once [...]

What if you build it, but they don't have time to come? Evan James was not a happy camper. He had just pulled the plug on next week's Coaching for [...]

The 'education and training' president pledged to reinvent the federal governments role in creating a world-class work force. How's he doing? 'It's the economy, stupid.' That succinct focus is credited [...]

'Look like a lady; act like a man; work like a dog.' Fortune magazine's advice to women who want to succeed in the workplace, circa 1990. From our vantage point [...]

How do you empower--really empower--employees? How about making them business-savvy partners? Craig Highbarger is empowered. He takes responsibility for producing a high-quality product, he understands work flow and process improvement, [...]

Has all the recent talk about visions, values and purpose struck a deeper chord in corporate America? A growing chorus says yes. It may be summer by the calendar, but [...]

George Bush fretted about 'the vision thing.' He tried. He painted a vibrant image of a thousand points of light that would shine sweetly across a kinder, gentler nation. He [...]

'In tough times, training is the first thing cut.' Few axioms in the business world have been as widely circulated as this one. Management gurus say it, garden-variety consultants say [...]

The day that word of the first cut came down was a bleak one, remembers one survivor. Managers had spent 60 days in a frenzy. Instead of running the business, [...]

one long weekend in October last year, much of the nation attended an intensive awareness-raising session on sexual harassment. We watched as Anita Hill described a series of incidents that [...]

Maslow, Gandhi, JFK....All of us up here love TRAINING Magazine, and you will too!'--B.F. Skinner Best contrition speech by a business-book writer caught faking an endorsement blurb from a dead [...]

It's been a rocky year: first a recession, then a war, now a new world order. During the first half of 1991, a recession-bruised economy induced many wary companies to [...]

A 5 percent decline in budgeted training expenditures is hardly good news, but it's no surprise. In the past 12 months the economy has run the gamut from sputtering to [...]

The publication of the Hudson Institute's 1987 study Workforce 2000 is a convenient milestone for dating our fascination with the changing nature of the work force and of work itself. [...]

Quick! Who is your customer? The buyer who purchases 40 gross of your company's widgets? Or the personnel department that reviews your request for an additional staff member? How about [...]

For the second year running, IBM has captured the top spot in the Training Top 100 ranking, and it's not surprising. Not only does the Armonk, N.Y., information technology giant [...]

What role should the federal government play in employer-sponsored training? Here's what training professionals think. Training's new visibility on the national agenda is either a boon or a curse, depending [...]

It would be hard to find two cultures more dissimilar than those of the United States and Japan. As our economies become inextricably linked, however, we find ourselves working beside [...]

Common sense holds that people go through different phases in the course of learning a new skill. We speak casually of novices, intermediates, experts and so on. But beyond these [...]

Your phone rings on Monday morning. You suddenly sit up straighter in your chair because you recognize the measured tones of your CEO. 'How shall we launch a major quality [...]

24 Ways to Keep Your Customers--When The Competition is Just a Click Away BY RON ZEMKE AND TOM CONNELLAN AMACOM, New York, (212) 903-8316, 240 pages, $25 I was amused [...]

Organizations loom large in our lives. They lift and move us; they feed and drape us; they color all that we do. They pool the talents of tens of thousands [...]

Talk about a junket! This month 30 workers at J.G. Wentworth, a Philly-based specialty finance company, will compete in the London Marathon, and their employer will pick up the tab [...]

Still getting 10,000 sites with every Internet search Is it finally time to get a little more savvy about how search engines and basic queries work? Well, help is now [...]

And now for the winners among this year's crop of tall tales and stretched resumes collected by Jude Werra, president of Werra & Associates, the Brookfield, WI, executive search firm [...]

The recently formed Congressional Commission on Web-based Education--comprising 15 lawmakers, educators and business leaders--held its first hearings in Washington in February. Following five additional hearings across the country, the commission [...]

OK, decision-time for you dedicated, lifelong learners. What's the choice of listening material going to be for that hour-long morning commute or the four-hour transcontinental flight? Vivaldi? Smashing Pumpkins? A [...]

Last year IBM began airing a futuristic TV commercial for wearable PCs that calls to mind an old 'Six Million Dollar Man' TV episode. But whereas astronaut Steve Austin had [...]

The inconsiderate jerk in the cubicle across from you is playing his voicemail messages on his speakerphone again. You've had it. You're going to walk over there and finally speak [...]

What bosses think employees talk about around the office water cooler: * Business-related matters 39% * Don't know 17% * Office gossip 9% * Sports 6% * Personal issues 1% [...]

To Allison Rossett, this year's inductee into TRAINING'S HRD Hall of Fame, performance consulting is all about applying theory to real-world challenges. Allison Rossett knows how to work a classroom, [...]

I HAVE THIS AVERSION TO TELEVISION QUIZ SHOWS. THE OPENING CHANT 'WHEEL ... OF ... FORTUNE!' SENDS ME GROPING FOR THE REMOTE. BUT THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH BUZZ OF LATE [...]

Malone College of Canton, OH, launched 'one of the first' (we can only hope) online physical education courses last fall. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the eight-week, $1,020 [...]

I woke up on August 17 with one thought: The world is a little colder today. I knew Ron had left. I couldn't be sorry because I knew how hard [...]

ALL HANDS ON DEC In any industry, an unexpected market slump, a miscalculation in demand or a stumble in product development can prove hazardous to a company's health. In the [...]

The biggest local news story in these parts in recent weeks (after the daily rushes of the latest misstep of Minnesota's new governor Jesse 'The Mind' Ventura, that is) has [...]

Some of our fundamental beliefs about business, technology and organizations have outlived their usefulness, declares Peter Drucker, the 20th century's preeminent management theorist. As the world moves further into a [...]

I was about to make a run to the bookstore to buy a week's supply of appropriately steamy vacation reading when fortune magazine announced, 'electronic books are coming at last!' [...]

Video Production 101 tells you to make sure your video fits your audience. Now that training videos are routinely dubbed for the international market, here's a caveat: Don't forget that [...]

I've always relished research findings that confirm the glaringly obvious. This news flash just in from The Conference Board: Americans are growing increasingly unhappy with their jobs, so much so [...]

If you can't do, teach, so they say. In my experience, that's one of those glib truisms that has very little truth in it. At least I don't believe it's [...]

The work of Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian economist who did his best thinking some 70 years ago, may not be familiar to you unless you're an avid student of the [...]

The most memorable scene--probably the only memorable scene--in the movie 'City Slickers' was a conversation between city slicker Billy Crystal and Curly, the gruff but wise old cowboy played to [...]

It's exceedingly odd to be introducing myself as the new editor-in-chief of Training magazine. Not that it isn't accurate; it's just that a good chunk of my professional life has [...]