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A training challenge that companies commonly encounter is budget. We hear it time and time again. So often, in fact, we have some courseware development options that won’t break the bank. Self-Authoring Tool Tortal’s Learning Management System (LMS) has a powerful course authoring tool that provides you with a do-it-yourself solution enabling companies to use…
Have you ever walked through the wing of a music conservatory where the practice rooms are located? If you have, you have heard students – pianists, violinists, brass players and others – practicing short musical phrases over and over again. They’re repeatedly playing difficult portions of the pieces they are learning. Why? The simple reason…
Guest Post By Doug Walker If you’re in charge of employee training, it can be challenging to keep your team engaged and motivated. You want them to learn the skills they need for their jobs and grow professionally, but what if they don’t find the content engaging? It’s not easy keeping your employees engaged with…
All workers feel reassured when they know they will get the training they need to fulfill the tasks that are a vital part of their jobs. This knowledge goes a long way toward alleviating any insecurities that applicants might feel about things like whether they have the skills they need to perform well, and how…
By Evan Hackel One of the clear blessings of the pandemic is people have become much more computer friendly, less nervous about technology, and much more willing to do online or virtual training. And that is a clear benefit to businesses. From an economic point of view, virtual training is significantly less expensive than flying…
How Amanda Gallant and her team used a pop-up drive-in theater to train seasonal ski resort employees during the year of Covid-19. Highlights from Amanda Gallant’s Training Unleashed Podcast on December 8, 2020 All of us at Tortal Training were thrilled to host Amanda Gallant on a Training Unleashed Podcast that we presented last December…
Many companies do not consider training when they are making long-range strategic plans. Some do include training in their planning, but don’t inform their training departments until afterwards. What a mistake. Training is critical when launching new initiatives. That is another way of saying, it is essential for growth and progress. When training has become…
Have you been reading the Tortal Blog in the last year? Have you been visiting our blog every week? If not, you have been missing out on a great source of high-level advice on getting more from your company training . . . much more. Here is a selection of top posts we published on…
How did your organization perform in calendar year 2019? Hopefully, you will smile when you ask yourself that question, and start to list all the things that went remarkably well. Maybe you saw sales increase, launched a successful new product, opened three new locations, or hired some terrific new employees. But chances are you had…
xx Every company pays for training. They can pay for it up front or pay for it through poor results at many times the cost of doing it right. It does cost money to train your employees. But it almost always costs much more money when companies decide not to train their workers….
