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Virtual Instructor-Led Training: Live Interaction Engages Learners.
vILT may soon jump to the head of the eLearning class thanks to advanced software that provides learners with much higher levels of live interaction. If your company is not using this effective training tool, or if you haven’t succeeded with it, you are missing out.

Educational Marketing: A New Strategy for Building Customer Loyalty.
Educating customers about products and services has long been a priority for leading companies. But new Internet-based approaches now enable them to develop far deeper customer relationships through ongoing education and information sharing. You can too by applying our five critical success factors to your marketing challenge.

Mobile Learning: The Time is Now.
The use of pocket-sized communications devices to enhance learning has tantalized training executives since the first cellular phone was introduced. But when it comes to adopting mobile learning initiatives, many are still preaching wait-and-see. There are some compelling reasons for you to reassess the conventional wisdom.

Get Lean. Get Aligned. Get Going.
What you actually spend to deliver training might surprise you. If you do know the number, are the benefits your company reaps worth the investment?

Transforming Training Execution: Reducing Cost and Improving Performance
Discover the top 6 challenges facing learning executives today and what you can do to overcome them. Learn how to reduce delivery costs, improve performance, and focus learning to the needs of your clients and your business.

Sales 2.0: Shifts in Web Technology, Sales Performance and Learning
Learn how the Sales 2.0 selling and learning model can help you close deals faster, reduce costs, and satisfy even the savviest of customers.

Assess Learning Performance: How to Drive Cost Out of the Learning Organization
Tough times require tougher choices.  Learn how to benchmark your organization to pinpoint where to cut costs without sacrificing value.

Frontline Management Training for Business Results
Discover the key skills and competencies new first level managers need to be successful. Learn how to develop a talent-driven solution that increases employee morale, retention and performance.

The State of Sales Training 2009
An organization's sales force drives the bottom line and effective sales training is the bedrock of a successful sales program. The ASTD/Intrepid/i4cp State of Sales Training Study explores how today's organizations are approaching sales training and sheds light on opportunities that organizations are missing to optimize those approaches or consider new ones. The data included in the report provides new insight into the current and future state of sales training globally. Based on a survey of more than 500 experts, the ASTD/Intrepid/i4cp study will equip you with the statistics to inform important sales training decisions, provide you with a background on the current sales training environment, and give you policy recommendations that can get you started on the road to success now.