Training & Development Journal articles from January 1990

Training & Development Journal archives from January 1990

Never Mind the Nineties
January 1, 1990... Never Mind the Nineties... As we kick off the 1990s, it becomes time, of course, to look ahead to the twenty-first century. We intend no disrespect to the nineties; the next 10 years will surely amuse all who work for a living. Indeed, as far...

Harold W. McGraw, Jr.: A CEO with a Training Mission
January 1, 1990... A CEO With a Training Mission Former CEO Harold McGraw has retired from McGraw-Hill, but his work is far from over. His new mission is to make people, especially in business, aware of the 27 million illiterate adults in the U.S.--and to do...

Breaking through Rational Leadership
January 1, 1990... Breaking Through Rational Leadership For their own good and their organizations,' leaders must learn to manage with their hearts as well as their heads. Here's a case study of a program that helped utility-company managers to do just that. ...

More on Ethical Reasoning in Business
January 1, 1990... More on Ethical Reasoning in Business A philosophical model for making moral decisions is still the soundest approach to ethical reasoning in business, says this author, despite a recent Journal article that espoused a psychological model...

The Key to Expatriate Success
January 1, 1990... The Key to Expatriate Success Up to 40 percent of U.S. "expatriate" managers fail in their overseas assignments. The missing link is preparation. Here are some guidelines for success. Overseas operations are big business for multinational...

Time-Based Innovation: The New Competitive Advantage
January 1, 1990... Time-Based Innovation: the New Competitive Advantage "Time is money," the adage says, but for too long, U.S. companies have ignored speed as a critical success factor. According to the Harvard Business Review, time-based strategy is the...

Evaluating Training Results
January 1, 1990... Evaluating Training Results Here's a training-evaluation method that assesses whether participants remember what they were supposed to have learned--and know how to apply it on the job. It happens all too often. At the end of your training...

Are You Ready for Automated Design?
January 1, 1990... Are You Ready For Automated Design? Trainers have the opportunity to automate instructional design with existing computer technology. But taking full advantage of electronic marvels won't come without a little soul searching. "Achieve the...

Games to Train By
January 1, 1990... Games To Train By Games can serve several purposes in a workshop or training situation. They can be used as session icebreakers to capture and hold a group's attention, to warm up or loosen up a rigid audience, or to create expectations about...

Essentials of Effective Influence
January 1, 1990... Essentials of Effective Influence What do the following situations have in common? * A husband and wife are trying to decide what movie to go to that evening. The husband wants to see a lighthearted comedy, and the wife wants to see a newly...

Filling in the Blanks
January 1, 1990... Filling in the Blanks Can you fill in the blanks in these advertising slogans with the correct product names? * "Have you driven a __________ lately?" * "__________, the taste for a new generation." * "Ask for a ___________ because everything...