Officially, the unemployment rate as of December 2009 was hovering around 10%. In reality, it’s closer to 20%. At Training Intelligence, we’ve seen IT workers and end-users alike let go by their companies as they streamline, outsource, and make do with less in general.



The reality is that we are in a jobless recovery, and those jobs may never come back. The companies that are going to prosper in the next decade are those that are able to make this jobless recovery work in their… Continue

One of the more common concerns students and training managers have is the question of how to make sure students can retain the information they learn in the classroom. There have been various articles and reports claiming that 10% of classroom training is transferred to a person’s actual job (a completely arbitrary figure, by the way, and not based on any facts). Whether this comes close to being accurate or not, retention is still a concern for many organizations.



Example: an IT… Continue

What Is Virtual Training? Before we get into the benefits and considerations for virtual training, let's define what virtual training is. It is training delivered over the internet, using technology to connect live instructors with live students remotely. The "classroom" is a technology such as Microsoft Office LiveMeeting, GotoMeeting, Adobe Connect, or Webex. The students can see the instructor's desktop and hear the instructor. Students will typically log into a remote environment to… Continue

Having implemented "official SAP" training for a couple of large organizations it seemed pretty apparent to me that this training was way over priced. Recently we were asked to roll out about 20 classes for a major defense contractor and we looked at few different options, of course the first option was to use official SAP. Having experienced that process first hand I knew we could do better. We partnered with a content provider who indeed provided proprietary content without the fancy hard… Continue