Top 10 Training Metrics
Is it time for you to measure the effectiveness of your training programs? If you’re not sure where to start, these Top Ten Training Metrics can help.
Measuring the effectiveness of training is a very difficult task, for stakeholders, training departments and end users. If you are a training manager or company stakeholder looking for ways to measure the effectiveness of your programs, these ten metrics are a great place to start.
One: Increased retention. Most Human Resources departments measure the rate of retention in all or various jobs. Many times, the front line, high turnover jobs are the ones that receive the most attention. If newly trained employees feel ill-equipped for the job, they are more likely to leave within their first 90 days. When you measure training success this way, higher retention points to a successful training program.
Two: Increased sales. Many organizations can track efficiency based on sales. If training is heavily geared toward a sales or customer service force, an effective program will eventually increase sales numbers. You can also measure product knowledge training as part of a sales number – poorly educated sales people usually do not make the sale. Dollar figures and unit sales make good metrics, but be sure to balance any metric with other factors that can influence sales numbers.
Three: Increased operational efficiency. In highly regulated or production-oriented businesses, managers look for more efficiency, which raises the bottom line. If your training programs teach skills, look to management’s efficiency metrics, as a baseline, before and after the training intervention. If you are building a new program or product, look at the efficiency numbers to obtain direction on training course content.
Four: Customer service results. Any organization can link training to customer service, which can be both internal and external. Customer service is also one of the easier place to start: one well-written survey can identify a host of customer related issues that can be addressed by training programs. Remember that training may not be the only solution to those issues. If your organization already has a customer survey in place, use those metrics to cross check your programs. When your programs impact the survey items, you can correlate an increase in customer satisfaction back to training.
Five: Company-defined scorecards. Training outsourcers tend to use client-defined criteria to determine training effectiveness. If your organization has a wide variety of possible measurements, sit down with management, and stakeholders, to create a custom scorecard based on expectations and the training programs that need to be in place.
Six: Cost of training. This is an internal training department measurement. In high turnover organizations, lowering cost per student can be used as an effectiveness measurement. Cost of training could also relate directly back to retention – if you’re spending less on new hire training, your retention may be higher. Work with your stakeholders and the HR department to determine training costs and where you want those numbers to be.
Seven: Return on Investment. ROI has long been a “catch all” metric. In some cases, it’s easy to define ROI, but in more cases it’s increasingly difficult. If you deliver soft skills training, it’s hard to put a dollar figure on the return. There are numerous ROI calculations available, so if you’re thinking about using an ROI metric, look for the formulas and plug in what you can. If you are part of a numbers-driven organization, you’ll be able to make friends with the stakeholders by defining and measuring concrete ROI.
Eight: Revenue generation. This metric appears most likely as a combination of sales numbers, operational efficiency, and customer service. If an organization shows increased revenue, a solid training program can be part of that increase. If your organization is rolling out a new revenue generator, such as a product or service, that is generally the best time to use revenue generation as training metric.
Nine: Instructor performance. Instructor evaluation is an important internal measurement. The results can come from student and manager evaluations, and must take into account the instructor’s presentation skills, knowledge of the subject, projection of organizational values, and adherence to instructional guidelines. The good part about instructor performance as a metric is that it can also be used as an external measure. When training is under discussion, training managers should be the first to praise their instructors for delivering quality instruction in every course – and instructor evaluations provide the supporting evidence.
Ten: End-user satisfaction. Your audience can measure effectiveness quicker than anyone else, both immediately following training and after a given time period, such as 30 or 60 days. The immediate results, sometimes referred to as “smile sheets”, can give you a picture of what happened in the classroom. The delayed results can tell you if the material is useful or not. Plus, end-user surveys are great tools for proving effectiveness with management.
Remember that training metrics may take time to put into place and show results. It’s also important to obtain buy-in from your stakeholders while you’re determining how to measure results. Use these metrics to start with – and use them whenever you’re developing or revamping training programs. Once you can prove bottom-line effectiveness, your credibility will go a long way.
Copyright 2008 Bryant Nielson. All Rights Reserved.
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There are lots of ways that you could sell classes online. Article marketing is the most effective way to promote your offerings as you will see when you do it yourself. You might also want to try free classified ads, Craigslist, and other ways to get the word out about your business offerings. Of all the possible ways that you could promote your business I have found that article marketing is by far the best method. When you do your article marketing, make sure that you share a little bit about your online classes in your article. In your article marketing articles, you want to keep your readers interested. Announcing! Four methods to improve your selling classes online.
1. Create a marketing plan for your online classes. Also create a programming plan for your classes. A marketing plan is a plan for you to market and promote your online classes. A programming plan outlines the different topics you’ll cover in your classes.
2. Let’s talk a little bit about your marketing plan. As already discussed, article marketing, in my experience, is the most time and cost effective way to promote any of your products or services. When you write a particular article to do article marketing, you submit them to the article directories. You can write an article simply to promote a specific class that you’re going to hold.
However, once you publish that article, the scheduling notice for that particular class goes out of date quickly. In my mind, it’s all right to put an article out there promoting a class that is already completed. This will give a notice that you do online classes. And because of your contact information within the article, people will contact you and find out about future classes.
3. Let’s talk about your programming plan now. When you schedule an online class, have a purpose in mind for each class. Perhaps you would like to create a series of classes. With your series of classes, assign homework. Then tell people that complete the homework that they may contact with the completed homework and that the homework can be good for a $10 discount on your coaching program. If somebody completes the homework, this is an indication that they’re really interested in what you’re offering. So when you begin to offer classes online, create an outline and with purpose, provide classes or classes in a series.
4. Another way to promote your online classes might be to tell a college professor that is related to your niche market about your classes. Maybe the college professor will use your interview as homework for his or her marketing class. This might be a very good way for you to make a new contact. Depending upon your particular niche market, this could be a great way for you to get your products promoted if it is a free class to college students. Be creative in the ways that you get exposure for selling your classes online.
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One of the remarkable things about our new President is that his past did not predict his future. Barack Obama is a classic example of a “Leap Frogger”: someone who bypasses the predictable climb up the ladder (rung by predictable rung) and instead hurdles forward to unprecedented heights.
In other words they chart their own course through what appears to the rest of us as “magical leaps.”
Some examples of Leap Froggers:
- A Minneapolis stripper writes her first screenplay and wins an Oscar (Diablo Cody, “Juno”)
- A young man drops out of Harvard to develop a computer software program, launching Microsoft and becoming one of wealthiest men on the planet. (Bill Gates)
- An American, with a Kenyan father, is raised in Hawaii by his single mother and rises to President after only 4 years on the National Political field. (Barack Obama)
Obama’s rise to President was fast! From 2004 – 2009, he went from State Senator, to U.S. Senator, to U.S. President.
So why don’t more of us make a leap forward in our own lives? For starters you were trained at a young age to climb not leap.
In school you start with grade 1, do all of the assignments, graduate, go to grade 2, get passing grades and head to straight to… grade 3. And yes, there is the occasional student who skips a grade, but a “skip” is worlds away from a LEAP.
After school, you typically end up in the work force with a new ladder to climb. Now there is NOTHING wrong with this system. It’s very efficient. You can set goals for yourself and map out long-term goals to get you from point A to point B and on to point C. I am not poo-pooing that at all. However, when an Obama comes along, it’s as if a superman has entered the scene. Or you may see leapers as “lucky,” as if they just won the lottery ticket of life.
But maybe leaping is something we are all capable of! The following is a list of Leap Frogger traits I put together. Try them on and see how they fit in your own life.
#1 – Allow Yourself to Dream Big. Before Barack married Michelle, he mentioned to his future brother-in-law, that he might run for President. (His brother told him to be quiet about that idea and just meet the family.) Obama had a dream, and it was BIG.
#2 – Allow Your Heart and Your Passions to Guide You. In 1985, Obama left a job with a NY business consultant to become a $13,000 per year community organizer in the South Side of Chicago. Obama says, “It’s a consequence of working with this community that I found my calling. There was something more than making money and getting a fancy degree. The measure of my life would be public service.”
#3 – Surround Yourself with Supportive People and AVOID the Nay-sayers. Some of Obama’s early supporters at the local political level were disgruntled when he chose to run for higher offices. Can you imagine the loss to not only this country but the world if Obama had for one moment let any of their concerns stop him? Don’t let other peoples “stuff” or smallness hold YOU back. The world needs your light, so if you know there is a spot light for you to step into, then no one can tell you otherwise.
#4 – Learn from Your Climb, but Forge Your Own Path. Leap Froggers don’t come out of nowhere. Obama’s career includes tough years as a community organizer, slogging it out at Harvard Law School, and a failed bid for Congress in 2000. In other words, Obama did a lot of climbing, but he also did not let the ladder hold him back from taking a big leap.
#5 – Connect to source. Leapers are full of human spirit. Which is why their trajectories are unparalleled. Spirit is not confined to the 3-dimensional chess board of life. Spirit is connected to source (or God, or Allah, or the Universe, or whatever you’d like to call it) where the old rules don’t apply.
Thank goodness for Leap Froggers like Obama, who don’t hold back but shine their bright spirits, forging whole new paths and worlds for the rest of us to live into.
Where do you want to “leap” in 2009? I invite you to model these Leap Frog traits and start LEAPING towards your own dreams!
Heather Gray is a Soul and Life Coach, Writer and Author of “Real Girl, Real World: A Guide to Finding Your True Self” (Seal Press 2005) and Contributing Author to “Conscious Entrepreneurs: A Radical New Approach to Purpose, Passion and Profit” Go to: http://www.spreadyourwingsandinspire.com to dowload her FREE Success Kit revealing EASY, clear ways to grow and prosper by following your true path.
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‘Be careful what you pray for, ’cause you just might get it.’ Have you ever heard that saying? In my opinion, it so perfectly describes the pitfalls of adulthood. Keep in mind that I have what I think is quite a unique definition for ‘adulthood’: childhood without the parental constraints. The dreams of the young adult are very often a mixture of the soul’s passion with a child’s naieveté. It’s the latter that can land you in an emotional soup around the onset of the midlife transition.
Consider this quote from author Dan Millman (The Way of the Peaceful Warrior):
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
The problem with achieving ’success’ derives from the fact that, as an adult, your definition of ’success’ is too limited. However, this realization doesn’t really hit home until midlife. If you’ve been successful, there’s a good probability that you’re going to (or already have) run into one of two unsettling situations. These come upon you when you’ve achieved a certain mastery in your field. In the first scenario, the pressure is immediately on you to surpass yourself. Not only do you have the face the onset of boredom (’been there, done that, bought the tee-shirt), but you also quickly become aware that there are younger, brighter, even more ambitious people than you chasing behind you. What happens to your success when you’ve been overtaken by people more successful than you?
The second scenario can be even more painful. It occurs when your drive to succeed allows you to attain your highest goals. Only then do you have the opportunity to stop and look around. You may even allow yourself to feel your feelings about what you’ve achieved. Those pesky emotions tend to flood in around the onset of midlife. What happens to you when you look at your success and feel only disgust? Very often, when people have achieved their goals they discover that the achievement didn’t bring them what they thought it would or, even worse, that it did bring them what they thought it would, and it wasn’t what they really wanted, after all. The French have a great word to describe that feeling: ennui. It describes a feeling beyond boredom – all the way to emptiness.
Is there a cure for ennui? I think so, and midlife presents exactly the context we need to embark on it. You can only break open the dead end of success by redefining it for yourself. The superficial definitions that you inherited from your childhood need to be revisited. You need to go much more deeply into the bigger questions of life. This is essentially a spiritual quest, and can’t genuinely be satisfied by anything less. Until you’re prepared to take a serious look at the core purpose of your life, you’ll be left chasing after one unsatisfying ’success’ goal after another. Your real purpose (I prefer the term ‘destiny‘) can’t be confined to a simple definition because, as Millman suggested our opening quote, ‘purpose’, ‘destiny’, and ’success’ are all dynamic terms: they evolve even as you pursue them.
It takes courage to undertake a spiritual quest because it means giving up forever the hope of finding ‘the answer’. Every choice you make in life changes the question. Yet, on a truly spiritual quest, there’s no possibility of ennui because there’s no fixed ‘goal’ to attain. You can never become obsolete and surpassed by other younger, brighter, and more ambitious people, because your spiritual path belongs to you alone. You are the one and only expert in being you. Do you have what it takes to face the midlife challenge: to become the person you were always meant to be?
H. Les Brown, MA, CFCC
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A career planning test can be very purposeful. It can help a person realize his planning abilities, maturity in decision-making and basic career management. The career planning tests can aid you to find your aptitude level and your abilities. It can clarify all the queries in you. An employment counselor can chip in to help you choose the right occupation. A career planning tool is not a magic weapon but an eye-opening tool which can point out to you the best possible options for consideration.
These are done either on paper or in a computer. Standardized assessment instrument or inventory, as it’s also called, is usually provided by professionals. These professional people usually are career counselors. Students, in general, write a lot of such tests to locate themselves in the career-radar. Elementary school students are generally not advised to take these tests because of their mental maturity.
Career planning tests which deal with work values, ethics and lifestyle values are also taken up by students to explore the different types of jobs. Answers to these career planning tests never have right or wrong answers. It is a tool which measures your responses in variety of areas such as creativity, altruism, security, economic rewards, physical activity and social relationships.
They can also involve questions based on what you like or dislike. Such tests explore interest inventories. Questions could be like; would you rather fix a flat tyre or play a game on the computer? These tests can fail sometimes, especially when students who really don’t have a clue about few of the activities listed.
Another way of career planning tests involves aptitude and achievement test. It can help you in a large way as it not only helps you realize your inherent skills but also to develop new skills. Schools and other educational institutions normally use this tool for its students. However, even military, employers and licensing agencies have started to use these tests to recruit people. These kinds of tests often require some coaching and hence students resort to taking courses. It might be required to take an English Proficiency Test for entering into a post-secondary institution.
Class counselors use personality assessment tests to observe a person’s choices and help them relate to their occupations. The answers, often, are True or False types and questions could be like; ‘would you rather sleep in your bedroom or go to play in the beach?’
Career planning tests are conducted for both youth and adults. Career maturity testing might give a clue to the person about his ability to take up career management.
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For most affiliate marketers, link popularity is a vital component to their success. They give special efforts to make links popular through efficient link management. Well-founded links can make one’s web site more popular. With the many related web sites pointing back to your site, more people will be lead to your page and thus, increasing the probability of turning this traffic into sales. If you do link building campaigns, you will be able to create a stronger presence online and eventually result to better search engine rankings. However, for web pages that do links campaign poorly, you can expect that your site will most probably be positioned at the last pages of search engines.
Having high quality backlinks is much coveted by most online marketers who are intensively doing their internet marketing campaigns. This would surely increase link popularity for your business. Every affiliate has their own style of making their way towards link popularity. Some webmasters create hundreds of links thru link farms while others settle to manual submission of links and manual links exchanges. However, according to some experts, sending out too many links can have its drawbacks. It is more advisable that you have a consistent campaign in building links. It must not increase abruptly instead it must be under control.
Those who are doing links management manually would say that they can get better results since their service is more personalized. To increase the pace of your popularity, you may do a fast link building campaign by using special tools. Doing things manually may be tedious and time-consuming. But don’t fret; there are softwares that can liberate you from these tasking jobs. There are tools in the market that can help you to further enhance the popularity of your links. You may opt to have a cheap link builder but don’t overlook its features. It must be able to qualify to your requirements.
Do not sacrifice quality service to cheap prices. It may not do any good for your business. Do your link management in a gradual manner so as not to alarm search engines with the sudden increase of links. Search engines might even black list you. It is better to be consistent at what you do. Allow your links to increase congruent to your site’s increase in link popularity. Link building is just a part of the whole internet marketing process. You cannot savor success overnight so no matter what tool you use, there is no guarantee of an overnight success.
Make sure that you build a firm business plan prior to engaging in any campaigns. Keep your mind focused to your marketing plan so that you will be lead to the right path. For a long term success on the internet, it is important that you build your business on a solid ground. Lay out your plans well so that you will not invest on tools that won’t help forward your business. By having a good business plan to guide you, you would know how to approach your prospective customers efficiently. It may be high time to review your marketing plans and see which ones are successful or not.
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As a business owner you need to be wary. There are countless salesmen and marketing professionals whose sole responsibility is to separate you from your hard earned dollars. They will use every trick in the book to get you to buy. They will tell you that your business cannot survive without their product or service. They will flatter you or even threaten you into a sale. Don’t fall for the hype! Fight the urge and, as Nancy Reagan taught us, just say no!
As the primary decision maker for your business you must be cautious how you spend your money. There are people who rely on you to make good decisions so they can keep their lifestyle in tact. Whether you like it or not, you are responsible to them and to yourself. So, make spending decisions based on real business needs, not on that awesome salesman’s recommendation. Is there a valid, real business case to purchase? Can your company live without it? Will there be a genuine business advantage gained by the purchase? Will you be more efficient? Will it reduce expenses somewhere else?
All of these questions should be answered before you sign the check. But don’t take the salesman’s word for it! I realize this might come as a surprise to you, but some salesmen are not above lying to close a sale. So, make sure you check their claims. Look for reviews on the internet or in trade magazines. Find out if there is anyone else using the product or service and contact them to learn their opinions. You must exhaust every avenue before you hand over your money.
Obviously I am not talking about purchasing office supplies. By all means, buy that toner, paper and sundries. I am talking about expenses that exceed your petty cash budgets. I am talking about computer servers, software systems, new construction, electrical generators, and everything else that the accountants refer to as a capital expenditure. Here’s a hard and fast rule: If it costs more than you normally spend for a month’s worth of office supplies, then you should do some homework first.
But you’re busy, you say. You have too much to do to also be running around researching every purchase; so delegate. Get someone you trust to look into it and to develop a simple business case report which explains the economic reasons for the purchase. Instruct them to keep it simple and reduce their conclusions to a single page. If you have questions, you can always ask them to justify their positions with additional research data. A business case is invaluable when you are considering any large expense.
If you don’t have anyone on staff that is capable of producing a business case, then look to outside help. For example, if it’s a computer related purchase then bring in a business technology expert to review the matter. In order to ensure that your outside expert will provide you with an accurate analysis, tell them from the beginning that they are only being hired to produce the business case, not for the purchase of the system. Too many consultants are really just salesmen in disguise who are more interested in selling you their systems. In the computer consulting industry there are numerous reseller opportunities for consultants to earn hefty commissions by convincing you to buy from a specific vendor. So, to make sure you get straight and honest answers, tell them you aren’t going to buy from them. A real consultant (as opposed to a disguised salesman) will accept the terms and will happily prepare the analysis for you.
As a business owner you have to be smart. Don’t fall for marketing hype and brilliant sales pitches. Spend your money wisely. Learn to rely on business case reports that justify expenses that are greater than your normal purchasing rates. A business case will help you run your business better and will allow you to spend your money on the products or services your company genuinely needs. And that always helps you sleep better.
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You are very special
God’s gift to the world
Filled with His Spirit
Wise with His Word
You are happily harnessed
Captivated by God’s calling
To sin not falling
To His Spirit joyously yielding
The sword of His Word wielding
Your sorrows to God are known
Though through them you’ve grown
Learning in Christ you have a home
You’re never ever alone.
So when your mind wants to roam
And your heart wants to moan
Hold on to God’s unchanging hand
He’ll lead you into your own
Your promised possession
Your personal inheritance
His fullness and blessing
Just keep believing and pressing
Praying until something happens
Maintain a glorious countenance.
Settle for nothing less
Than God’s ultimate best
Continue to believe, as you have
For the desires of your heart
Trust in your heavenly Father
From Him don’t depart
Remain on God’s easel
You’re a wonderful work of art
Be patient and let God complete
That which He did start.
Embrace the process
Guard your heart.
Let patience have its perfect work
And the Shepherd of your soul satisfy
For you will no longer cry
Nor wonder and ask why
For He who sits high above in the sky
Shall show Himself strong and soon reply
Answering each prayer
Revealing to you why
Fulfilling each promise
Making wrongs right
Clarifying confusing traumas
Giving you abundantly more
Settling life’s dramas.
For this is your year
The year of God’s favor
A time of His Presence and peace
An experience to savor
To embrace
To cherish
To hold dear to your heart
The floodgates of heaven are open
Let the celebration now start!
Child of Destiny
Called by the Spirit
Yesterday’s is gone
A new day has come
With the fire of My Spirit
You now shall burn and run
Taking your testimony forth
Going into the nations
Boldly arising without hesitation
For the finances shall flow
All fear shall go
Newfound confidence you’ll know
Even better however
Is My power and authority
Which is yours by faith
Now grab it!
Use it!
Give it to the nations
Let God arise
And remove all limitations!
The Dream-Maker is here
In His glory He’s come
To take away the dull
And make life more fun
To cause you to arise
To not despise
Even to remove the scales
From your eyes
Imparting spiritual vision
A burden for the nations
A yearning for revival
And divine impartation
So think it not strange
As I the Lord come suddenly
For this is My time
For you to come away
Take refuge in Me
I am your hiding place
Come rest in My love
Please seek My face
For there is no end
To my divine grace
It’s yours for the taking
To birth a great awakening
To resurrect the dead
To effect every heart and head
A divine turnaround has come
A spiritual outpouring will follow
And eternal joys will replace
All of your past sorrows.
Jesus is My Name
Yesterday, today and forever the same
Steadily and consistently here for you
Always understanding and welcoming too.
Happy days are here!
Says the Lover of your soul
The Holy Spirit’s touch makes you whole
His Word solidifies and stabilizes your soul
In the Church, Christ’s body, you’ll discover your role
With which you’ll arise anew, anointed and go
In a new anointing and dimension begin to flow.
Be a princess of purity and giver of agape love
Through childlike faith you’ll fully receive
All you wish for and dream of
Gifts that can only come from above.
So sorrow not in the delay
For something good
Is soon coming your way!
Paul Davis is a life coach (relational & professional), traveling minister and fitness trainer. Paul is the author of several books including Breakthrough for a Broken Heart; God vs. Religion; Adultery; & Supernatural Fire. Paul is a popular worldwide speaker, creative consultant, humor being, adventurer, explorer, mediator, minister, liberator and dream-maker.
Paul’s compassion for people & passion to travel has taken him to over 50 countries of the world where he has had a tremendous impact. Paul has served in many war-torn, impoverished and tsunami stricken regions of the earth. His organization Dream-Maker Ministries is building dreams, breaking limitations and reviving nations.
Paul’s Breakthrough Seminars inspire, revive, awaken, impregnate with purpose, impart the fire of desire, catapult people into a new level of self-awareness, facilitate destiny discovery and dream fulfillment.
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During a job search, several tools and strategies can be used to weave together a compelling story of your value to an employer. Resumes, interviews, and networking meetings should be rich with memorable information about you and the problems you have solved for organizations. Your story should be so good that the interviewer can’t wait to repeat it to the next person in the hiring chain. Here are some tips for making that happen.
1. Create an exciting resume that the reader just can’t put down.
Don’t just write about job tasks and don’t just list statistics. Build a story around your accomplishments that succinctly communicates the impact you had on an initiative or an organization as a whole.
2. Tell your story with pictures.
Try adding some charts or graphs to your resume to create a visual representation of your impact. For example, if you increased sales 500% over a 5 year period, create a bar graph to show the year over year growth.
3. Add your online stories as well.
LinkedIn, Plaxo, and Facebook profiles are a great way to let other people see who you are both professionally and personally. If used properly, they can help build your credibility, authenticate your passion, and show your human side. Blogging software (try WordPress or Typepad) and microblogging (I like Twitter) can be leveraged quite effectively to create an online presence and voice and establish yourself as an expert in a given area and an engaging storyteller.
4. Showcase samples of your work.
Bring examples of the types of reports, business communications, or design work you do to the interview. Consider including links to websites, photographs, videos, or project prototypes to your resume or portfolio when appropriate.
5. Answer interview questions using the Challenge-Action-Result story format.
Employers are interested in learning about your past successes because they feel that past successes are a good indicator of future success. By describing the challenges you faced, the actions you took to address those challenges, and the corresponding results for the organization, you are more likely to create interest and excitement about your candidacy.
6. Ask questions that invite the interviewer to tell their story.
In order to build a strong rapport with the hiring authority, you need to share information. Asking the interviewer to also share information helps deepen this relationship. Ask what issues the department is struggling with and what types of strategies they have tried in the past to address these issues. Asking questions shows your interest and concern for the company’s problems and also positions you as the right person to address them.
Barbara Safani, owner of Career Solvers, http://www.careersolvers.com , has over 12 years of experience in career management, recruiting, and executive coaching. Ms. Safani partners with both Fortune 100 companies and individuals to deliver targeted programs focusing on resume development, job search strategies, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation skills, and online identity management
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The effect of fitness workout program to weight loss endeavor is dual facet. On one hand, it can help you to overcome the plateau effect of dieting, as the body usually adapts to the lower calorie intake by lowering its consumption and therefore makes dieting less effective. On the other hand, fitness program along can help you lose extra body fat the natural way.
Obviously, a fitness program that works for one person may not work for another. Not everyone has the same build and health condition, so you need to first check out your fitness level. You can consult your doctor for a recommendation on the type of exercise that best suit you as well as some warnings against possible injuries. In case you do not have any special medical conditions, you may also consult a fitness coach in the gym or simply purchase a reputable fitness program and follow through. Either way, you need to gather ideas and put up a custom exercise plan that is both safe and effective for you.
So, what makes a good workout plan?
1. Your plan has to be realistic so that you can stick with it for a long term. There is no point in exercising your butt off if you are only going to do it for a few weeks – you will eventually gain all the weight back and more this way.
2. A good exercise plan should be progressive. Keep a record of what you did in each workout and how your body reacted to the training, and try to improve upon the structure. You may also like to take down every little achievements you have made and keep yourself motivated all the time.
3. A good fitness program should consist of varied forms of exercises to maintain your top interest level. For example, you can start each workout by doing a 30-minute cardio-exercise, such as walking, jogging, running, cycling and aerobics. This will warm up your body for more intense physical activities. You may then spend another 30 minutes with strength training, such as weight lifting, crunches, sit-ups, etc. When you finish, you can cool down yourself with some stretches or de-stressing exercises. According to fitness experts, this type of exercise can give you enormous benefits both physically and emotionally.
Aside from fitness workout program itself, there are are a few other things you can do to maximize results. For instance, you can try to find an exercise buddy so that you can encourage each other and have more fun with the exercise. You may also get creative and come up with variations of your version of exercises and rotate amongst them to keep your highest interest level.
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