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Investing in Small Business Sales Training

Integrity Solutions

One of the most critical areas where small businesses can gain a competitive edge is by investing in their teams’ development, particularly through sales training. The Fundamental Element Sales Training Often Overlooks Sales training is often deployed with a focus on product knowledge, process, selling skills and techniques.

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Training Customers to Do It Themselves

ShepHyken

First, take care of the customer and then train them for next time. Or, train the customer while you help them. To do that, it will take time to train customers to use your technology. For Lance, the employee could have done it for him, then taken him to the kiosk and showed him how to do it the next time.

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Money Down the Drain: Is It Worth Training These Employees?

Steve DiGioia

Imagine this: you work tirelessly for weeks on end to train a new employee, pouring all your knowledge and expertise into them. Was it worth training these employees or was it money down the drain? Employers invest significant time, energy, and resources into training new hires, only to see them leave shortly after.

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Introducing automatic training for solutions in Amazon Personalize

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce automatic training for solutions. Solution training is fundamental to maintain the effectiveness of a model and make sure recommendations align with users’ evolving behaviors and preferences. For this post, you configure automatic training in the training parameters.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program?

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Efficient continual pre-training LLMs for financial domains

AWS Machine Learning

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. The resulting LLM outperforms LLMs trained on non-domain-specific datasets when tested on finance-specific tasks.

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Revolutionizing large language model training with Arcee and AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have gained attention for their effectiveness, leading various industries to adapt general LLMs to their data for improved results, making efficient training and hardware availability crucial. In this post, we show you how efficient we make our continual pre-training by using Trainium chips.

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The Why, What, & How of Transitioning to Virtual Training

In this guide, we’ll explore the key characteristics of on-demand training and delve into the benefits of this method for students.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

He’ll also cover the basics of building and fostering successful working relationships with your SMEs, so you can minimize or prevent similar problems in the future!

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

You will discover your mind's untapped potential, which will enable you to recall information such as names, numbers, presentations, instructions, proverbs, foreign languages, software commands, technical terms, laws, statutes, training material, and even more.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

From virtual training tools to communication platforms and performance tracking systems, you'll be equipped to provide an exceptional new hire experience. Enhance team cohesion, improve communication, and boost collaboration in a virtual environment.

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[Live Webinar] Creating Delightful Customer Education Programs that Drive Business Outcomes

Speaker: Daniel Quick, Head of Customer Education, Asana

Every day, customers are faced with a multitude of different, often competing, priorities and your training program is no exception. Therefore, it’s critical that both your content and your learning experience are highly engaging, especially when training is voluntary, as it often is for customers. Register now to reserve your spot!

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Badges, Certificates, and Certifications: A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing

In this guide, we will explore the world of credentials in-depth and how they relate to customer and partner training programs. Certifications can be a huge pillar of Customer Education programs, but they can also be really daunting.

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6 Ways to Secure (More Of) a Budget for Your Customer Education Program

Learn how you can demonstrate the positive ROI of customer training and make the case for securing a larger budget in our latest eBook! Whether you’re looking to kickstart or expand your customer education program, you need access to a budget.

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Just launched! 2020 Customer Education Benchmarks and Trends Report

In this report, see how companies across a variety of industries are building, optimizing, and measuring their training programs. Based on a survey of more than 250+ external education teams, Skilljar has compiled this report on current trends including budgets, integrations, team structure, and more.