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Congratulations! You have your first training manager role. Now, where to start? As in any new role, you want to make a terrific first impression. You want to build your credibility quickly – and the credibility of your team. To this end, you want to ensure you add value quickly. This means starting with a mindset that focuses on advancing the organization’s strategy and …

We are at a pivotal moment in history where leadership diversity has never been more important to organizations’ relevance and success. Our customers, our employees and our society demand it. As Katherine Phillips wrote in a 2014 Scientific American research report…

Career strategy for trainers to stay relevant in today’s fast-changing world.

As training professionals, we routinely enable others along their career paths, but we aren’t always consistent about facilitating our own careers. Like the proverbial cobbler, we make for others, but rarely ourselves.

As internal consultants, learning leaders are responsible for delivering solutions that solve business problems. Depending on the organization’s structure and culture, requests for training can come in a number of different ways. Sometimes, they are issued as directives: “We need this specific training to solve this specific problem.” Other times, they are …

To learn more about modern leadership, we spoke with Laura Smith Dunaief, CPTM, an experienced learning leader and an instructor for Training Industry’s continuing professional development programs, and Mark Herschberg, a chief technical officer, professor and author of “The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You.”