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ALD, Inc. Providing education, guidance and solutions for mastering leadership competencies
Do we have news! Lots to report… this month’s newsletter is devoted to helping you maximize the return on your e-learning and classroom training investments
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 Hope everyone had a wonderful July 4th celebration! It’s such a great holiday – family, friends, food, music and fireworks – our small community fireworks barge caught fire this year, so we didn’t get a finale and it just wasn’t complete without that last explosion of color.
But now it’s time to go back to work…we have several IMPORTANT announcements for you this month. We’re listing them here, with more information on the importance of each to you below:
Article #1 Summer Sizzle – amazing opportunity to license an entire library of online learning for all of your employees!
Article #2 Train-to-Ingrain Executive Summary – the practice of transferring learning that sets us apart from the others!
Article #3 20/20 Insight GOLD 4.0 assessment software to support the transfer of learning
Article #4 Supervision Series training modules and blended learning approaches that provide solutions for performance management
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Article  #1
We’re not burning keyboards! We are just thrilled to announce a
Summer Sizzlefor some of our most popular online training courses!
We know that you currently may be faced with the challenge of providing high quality e-learning that is affordable. Many organizations that took the plunge and invested in e-learning within the past few years are facing budget busting price increases when license renewal time comes around.
We wanted to make you aware of an extremely affordable alternative from ALD, Inc. & CRKInteractive.
You can provide your entire organization (regardless of employee population) unlimited use of e-learning that is educational, engaging and entertaining. With a student course completion rate close to 90%, the CRKI library is focused on helping organizations to maximize the potential of their people and minimize the investment.
These courses are targeted for:
- Improved communication among people
- Team building
- Developing management/leadership skills
- Developing customer interface skills for sales and service employees
We’d like to provide you free enrollment in any of the CRKInteractive courses that you would like to evaluate. The library includes management, sales, customer service, team and individual growth courses.
To take advantage of this offer, please take a moment and visit the link below and choose any of the many courses from the list. You’ll receive an enrollment email with your password.
NOTE: When filling out the enrollment form, please type in ALD, Inc. in the CRKI Associate field.
The CRKI Unlimited Use e-Learning Licenses are available for terms that best meet your budget needs:
- ONE YEAR = $60,000
- TWO YEAR = $100,000
- THREE YEAR = $120,000
These licenses are based on hosting on your Learning Management System. For only $10,000 per year we can host on the CRKI LMS and you can still maintain control of enrollments, student progress and scores.
Contact ALD for details about licensing this extraordinary library of training and development resources
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Article #2
Surely many of you ask yourselves the same questions we do:
- How do I make the great training events we sponsor REALLY provide payback?
- How can I make the leap from having participants complete an excellent course evaluation to TRANSFERRING the learning to the workplace?
We believe this sets us apart from other companies that sell training products. We are honestly concerned that you get VALUE for your investment; are you just checking off on a required training component OR are you enabling real behavior changes in your organization?
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IMPROVING INDIVIDUAL WORKPLACE PERFORMANCE
Implementing Train-to-Ingrain—
A Reinforcement-Based Approach to Learning and Development
that Achieves Permanent, Measurable Changes in Behavior
Executive Summary
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The ultimate goal of training and development has always been to achieve permanent, measurable improvements in performance that have a positive impact on business results.
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For decades, executives and HR professionals have pursued this goal. Regrettably, most organizations haven’t been able to achieve anything close to this expected return on their investment—especially in the improvement of leadership, sales, service and other interpersonal skills. Even though billions of dollars are invested in learning and development every year, the best efforts of trainers have not been able to consistently produce permanent changes in workplace behavior.
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Experts say the issue typically isn’t with the training and development programs themselves, but with their context—the activities and practices that happen before, during and afterwards. The central problem is inadequate follow-up reinforcement of the skills introduced in training. Recent discoveries in neuroscience tell us why this is so important: performance improvement involves the growing of new dendrites to reconnect brain cells into new pathways that enable new skills and behavior patterns. This physical connecting-up process depends on a substantial amount of practical application and reinforcement, which almost never happens in the traditional approach to training and development.
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Article #3
Train-to-Ingrain guides you to ASSESS your actual training needs and to eventually PROVIDE FEEDBACK to the class participant – has the person successfully transferred the learning? The assessment technology we prefer is 20/20 Insight GOLD – and why? Version 4.0 of our favorite software is now available.
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20/20 Insight GOLD is the most flexible, affordable and user-friendly 360-feedback software available today! Collect virtually any type of feedback—ideas, opinions, ratings, facts or surveys—from any number of people about the performance of a product, service, individual, team or even your entire organization! Easily generate and distribute reports that deliver the feedback you're looking for. Learn more about it here.
We would be happy to conduct an online demo for you to overview the 20/20 process - you really will wonder how you got along without the range of capabilities 20/20 provides. Contact ALD to talk about your requirements.
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Article #4
The Supervision Series – Leadership Essentials– has been enormously popular with our clients. Fundamental, basic, the skills some managers never master or some have forgotten! Twelve stand-alone modules or 12 courses conducted in sequence – highly interactive with behavior-based results. The Supervision Series is not only outstanding in content, but you have training options – each module is available for classroom instruction or as an online course. This offers you blended learning opportunities to maximize time for participants and trainers.
Take one of the online Supervision Series courses yourself – check out the content and design. Register here
* More on Blended Learning…
In these days of rapidly changing technologies, competitive industries and global issues, organizations are finding a need to train their workforce almost perpetually. Yet it is still difficult to find time to fit the training in or to pull many people off-line at one time…
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Bookmark these ALD links for quick training references
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AiA Classic- Increase self-awareness, self-confidence and self-motivation by affirming strengths, talents, and abilities; transform negative attitudes into positive ones. A unique learning experience.
DiSC System Materials – Real interpersonal effectiveness is all about understanding our own impact on others, recognizing other styles so that we can adapt our behavior to other stylesto maximize interpersonal effectiveness.
Blended Learning – Optimize your investment in learning, consider at least combining traditional classroom training and the technology of the Internet; blend techniques in a variety of ways.
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