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Managers Myth

Myth : People will leave once they acquire new skills. Truth: Good people will leave anyway, in all probability.They will get a promotion or a chance at more responsibility. If you train and develop employees, they are more likely to stay within your company. It’s better to lose a great employee to another position in your own company than to another company. - Grooming people from within for that next position allows you to hire talented people from within—and their learning curve is shorter! Myth : There is no payback from long-term development. Truth: : On the contrary, you will bring money to the bottom line with development. Top performers list working for a company that develops its people ahead of many perks—including company cars! This results in savings in recruiting, orientation, and training. Turnover costs money, and development reduces turnover. - Skills and experiences developed will probably be needed in a future job; nothing is ever wasted. - You

Traning Tips

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Adapted From the Book "Training For Dummies" Communication surely plays an effective role during training sessions where one doesn't just wants to be heard but to involve the participants in this activity which can be successful only if the training sessions are a combination of lecture+humor+persuasive participation+reflecting of effective ideas to the audience. The audience might comprise of listeners, hearers, attitudinal souls and path breakers and to pave your message to this mixed audience is never an easy task. Thomas Edison once said that he had never worked a day in his life. It was all fun! Wouldn't it be great if you could always say that? Adding humor to your training is one way in which you can add fun to your participants' days. Start off on a funny foot Establish the atmosphere right from the start. Every session should start off on a high note to set the stage for the rest of the session. Be positive. You want to send the message that this will be

Repositioning

Repositioning - Back from Holy Grave! When the recovery will begin? This question has been asked to me several times or almost in each of my class by my students (as they were worried about their future) in past 5 months & my standard answer was always “ NEVER, It will be . ” Because Recovery means ‘A RETURN TO NORMAL.’ For the probable future, where as Now is the new normal. Recent worldwide Economic collapse has permanently shifted customer expectations & business dynamics. Today’s consumer is worried about his Income Resources and future, as he should be. Now consumers are extremely price as well as value conscious. One approach, which attempts to maintain growth and margins while meeting the new demands of the transformed economy, is called repositioning. Repositioning, in classical sense, stands for marketing communication strategy designed to re-frame a company’s offerings in a more favorable light to appeal better to changing consumer sensibilities. An