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Understand Your Training Needs with Our Customer Profiles

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Understand Your Training Needs with Our Customer Profiles

With our expansive (and ever-growing) collection of courseware, there is training content that anyone can benefit from providing or receiving no matter what industry or organization type. At Corporate Training Materials, we strive to understand our different types of customers and how we can fulfil their needs to meet their organizational goals. In this week’s blog post, we reveal our customer profiles to show how flexible and multifaceted our training materials can be.

Learn how our training materials can benefit your specific needs with our customer profiles below.

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9 Tips for Making Your Training Workshops Fun for Increased Retention and Engagement

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9 Tips for Making Your Training Workshops Fun for Increased Retention and Engagement

Corporate training is a part of many employee’s careers. As a trainer, standing in front of a group of learners to train them may be intimidating. However, ensuring that you are delivering effective training workshops is crucial to promoting change and improvements in an organization. Finding ways to connect with your trainees and increase their engagement can help you deliver interactive workshops. Making your training fun can make the content you are teaching more memorable, making your sessions worthwhile to you and your learners. 1. Know Your Audience What does “know your audience” mean in the context of delivering a...

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Nail Your Next Presentation with Our Top Ten Public Speaking Tips and Tricks

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Nail Your Next Presentation with Our Top Ten Public Speaking Tips and Tricks

Does the idea of public speaking make your skin crawl and your heart race? If this sounds familiar, you are not alone.

Glossophobia, or the fear of public speaking, affects approximately 75 percent of adults. The statistic is staggering when you consider how many jobs require public speaking skills, whether it’s to pitch a new idea, interact with the media/stakeholders, or even running an internal meeting.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. With a little preparation, the ability to deliver a great presentation can be game changing for your professional development and organization as a whole.

Effectively deliver your key messages and even influence behavior with our public speaking tips and tricks.

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Using Social Media to Boost your Professional Development: Dos and Don’ts

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Using Social Media to Boost your Professional Development: Dos and Don’ts

Now more than ever, it has never been more important to use the internet to work on your professional development. The power of social media has made it possible to network and recruit with just a few taps on a smart phone. It has never been easier to display your personal brand to millions of people.

But how do we leverage this? Here are our top 5 Dos and Don’ts for using social media to boost your professional development.

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Your Jargon Guide to the Corporate Training Industry

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Your Jargon Guide to the Corporate Training Industry

Corporate training is an ever-changing industry that is consistently evolving over time through changing circumstances and increases in technology. With that comes many terms and phrases to describe innovations and the latest trends. As global leaders in this industry, we at CTM have put together a glossary that defines some of the most common terms we use every day in hopes that you can better understand corporate training and its many nuances. We consulted CTM Sales Representatives Hailey Conley and Seth Rozee for the most relevant and commonly used industry lingo. Here is our Jargon Guide: Corporate Training Edition.

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