TrainSMART https://www.trainsmartinc.com/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:48:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How To Overcome The Fear Of Delegation In The Workplace https://www.trainsmartinc.com/overcoming-fear-of-delegation/ Tue, 31 May 2022 12:16:18 +0000 http://trainsmartinc.wpengine.com/?p=1084 Ask most successful leaders to pinpoint an event that was pivotal to their career success, and they are likely to...

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Could PowerPoint Be Ruining Your Virtual Training Sessions? https://www.trainsmartinc.com/could-powerpoint-be-ruining-your-virtual-training-sessions/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:35:34 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9439 When facilitators/trainers started transitioning their workshops to the virtual space, they knew they had to give up many of their...

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What’s The Difference Between Facilitators & Trainers? 4 Reasons Why You Should Never Use “Facilitator and Trainer” Interchangeably https://www.trainsmartinc.com/difference-between-facilitator-and-trainer/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:57:17 +0000 http://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=5301 Probably not — But your clients are going to do it anyway. And that’s the real problem. Corporate culture is...

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Empathy Important To Employees! Why Is It Important For Leaders To Have Empathy? https://www.trainsmartinc.com/leaders-need-more-empathy-in-workplace/ Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:16:12 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9552 In a recent video workshop on Work-Life Balance, several participants shared some of their struggles in maintaining their professionalism while...

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What Is Train-the-Trainer: The Ultimate Instructor Development Workshop for Corporate Trainers https://www.trainsmartinc.com/what-is-train-the-trainer/ Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:13:47 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9315 Take a survey of any training department, and chances are 90% of the staff members never intended to work in...

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Part II – What TrainSmart’s Team of Learning And Development Professionals Learned in 2020 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/part-ii-what-our-team-learned-in-2020/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 21:29:11 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9695 Learning and Development professionals are not essential workers. When organizations, businesses, and state governments issued stay-at-home orders last year, the...

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2020: The Year Learning Professionals Went Back To School: A Lessons Learned Series https://www.trainsmartinc.com/2020-the-year-learning-professionals-went-back-to-school/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:01:41 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9694 Never has the expression “Hindsight is 20/20” felt more appropriate. Not only was 2020 a meteoric year of disruption, for...

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How To Pivot Your Customer Service Skills To Excel In Extraordinary Times https://www.trainsmartinc.com/how-to-pivot-your-customer-service-skills/ Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:06:34 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9523 Customer Service has long been the lynchpin for achieving customer loyalty. What many organizations are finding is that what worked...

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TrainSMART Served As A Chief Learning Officer For A Texas Engineering Firm https://www.trainsmartinc.com/served-as-chief-learning-officer/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 22:47:41 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9430 Good Evening, Many ask about the various projects that TrainSmart is involved in outside of the services that you are...

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How to Avoid Becoming the “Norma Talmadge” of Virtual Training https://www.trainsmartinc.com/virtual-instructor-led-training-best-practices/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:03:44 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9365 During the era of silent movies, there wasn’t a bigger star than Norma Talmadge. She was the “IT” girl for...

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What Skills Do Facilitators Need To Have? – 3 Key Skills Every Skilled Facilitator Needs To Have https://www.trainsmartinc.com/facilitator-skills-you-need-to-have/ Fri, 22 May 2020 18:46:30 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9355 It’s not unusual for someone to contact our offices asking for training on facilitation when what they are actually looking...

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How To Improve Your Virtual Meetings – 5 Best Practices https://www.trainsmartinc.com/5-best-practices-to-improve-virtual-meetings/ Wed, 20 May 2020 17:39:05 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9356 Are Virtual Meetings The New Business Activity You Love to Hate? In 1969, a television program debuted with an OPENING...

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Corporate Training: The Importance of Being Adaptable https://www.trainsmartinc.com/corporate-training/ Sat, 02 May 2020 15:09:37 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9330 If life had occurred according to plan, the budgets for corporate training in 2020, would have increased over 2019 spending....

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How To Design Successful Virtual Training To Avoid Zoom Fatigue https://www.trainsmartinc.com/designing-successful-virtual-training/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:07:45 +0000 https://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=9323 In 2014, we wrote an article about the status of virtual training. Did we call it: Will Virtual Training Always...

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Tools of the Trade: What To Include In Your Training Room https://www.trainsmartinc.com/tools-for-classroom-training-session/ Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:10:29 +0000 http://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=5750 Walking into a training room for the first time always reminds me of a new home or condo before the...

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How To Write A Professional Email – 5 Tips For Writing Better Business Emails https://www.trainsmartinc.com/how-to-write-professional-emails/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:55:47 +0000 http://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=6154 Do You Have Poor Business Email Etiquette? Here Are 5 Tips On How To Write A Professional Email Emails are...

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How to Take Dry Content and Make It an Interesting Training Experience https://www.trainsmartinc.com/making-dry-content-interesting-for-training/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:55:38 +0000 http://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=5812 Think about the most memorable training experience you ever attended. Now focus on one or two lessons that you took...

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6 Ways to Convert Lurking Online Participants into Active Participants During An Virtual Training https://www.trainsmartinc.com/converting-virtual-lurkers-into-active-participants/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:15:47 +0000 http://www.trainsmartinc.com/?p=5811 Ask a seasoned trainer what’s their least favorite venue and there’s a 90% chance they’ll say: virtual. It doesn’t matter...

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