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Countdown to New Skills

If you want to teach an employee an important new skill, a brief training session or new procedure may not be enough to make it happen.  Skills become deeply embedded because you plan -- and implement -- a step-by-step skill development initiative.  This feature explains how to make new skills a reality within 60 days.  [Feature 0516]

Make Learning a Lifelong Affair

Lifelong learners often have an edge over folks who rely entirely on the knowledge they've picked up in the past.  Lifelong learners are quick to master new skills that can lead to success.  They are people who achieve new heights in productivity, optimize profit and earning potential, and achieve great things.  This brief feature reminds readers of the many ways they can learn throughout their lives.  Great for an early fall ("back to school") issue.  990 words.  [Feature 0509]

Nurturing Your New Hire: Thirteen Must-Dos for Employee Success

In some ways new hires are like newborns -- fascinated by their wide new world, but in need of care and guidance.  When your readers nurture their new hires with these thirteen must-dos, the result will be workplace success.  555 words.  [Feature 0504]

Understanding the Learning Styles of the People Around You: A Key to Great Results

Readers who understand how others process information can become great supervisors and persuaders.  This feature describes the "learning styles" they're likely to encounter among employees and customers, and explains how to tailor training and supervision to reach of these unique styles.  1020 words.  [Feature 0108]

Training Resources for Your People: Closer than You Think

How do your readers, and their colleagues and employees, keep current with changing knowledge?  A variety of educational resources abound today.  Here's a summary.  1177 words.  [Feature 0006]

Fifty Ways You Can Help Your Employees Become More Productive

It's often the little things readers do, day in and day out, that boost bottom-line productivity.  Here are fifty tips readers can use to help their people become more efficient and effective.  736 words.  [Feature 9922]

Marks of a Great Mentor

As mentoring becomes an increasingly widespread phenomenon, current and prospective mentors ask themselves:  What makes a great mentor?  This feature provides an answer.  646 words.  [Feature 9911]

Become Your Own Mentor

Mentoring is a powerful way for readers to build skills and knowledge.  Yet owners and managers of business firms, in particular, often have limited access to mentors.  The solution:  readers can become their own mentors!  This feature explains how.  868 words.  [Manuscript 9619]

Employee Training: Finding Opportunities in Your Own Backyard

Your readers can find high-quality training opportunities "in-house" -- if they know where and how to look.  This article offers twelve specific internal training opportunities any reader can use.  1007 words.  [Feature 9021]