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Customer Corner: New Year's Resolutions

TTN's LMS Version 6.2:
Now Available!

Custom Guide Courses: Microsoft 2007 Courses Available!

Premium Content: Free SkillSoft Demo

Rosetta Stone:Content Now Available!

TTN Tidbits: Making New Year's Resolutions

Train Your Brain: January 2009 Word Find

TTN Tech Tip: Color-Coded Course Links

  TTN is proud to announce version 6.2 for 2009!

Our new version is packed full of the tools and tips that you have asked for to make your training easier and even more comprehensive!  6.2 will save you and your company time and money, while providing a higher return on the training your employees need.  As an added bonus, TTN has included five new courses.

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TTN TIDBITS

Making New Year's Resolutions - by Joel Arnold, TTNLearning

You know the drill. It’s the start of a new year. You make your New Year’s resolutions on January 1st, and if you’re lucky, you won’t break them until January 10th. There’s a simple reason for this; resolutions are vague creatures. They’re not true goals. If you want to accomplish something new or important this year, you must turn your resolution into a goal. A resolution is, “I will lose weight in 2009!” A goal is, “I will weigh 180 lbs on December 31st, 2009. Here’s how I will accomplish this.” Write your goal down. Be specific, with actual, measurable numbers, and dates. (Why is it important to write down goals? What facts reinforce specificity in goal setting?) With a concrete end in mind, figure out how to break that time down into smaller, measurable goals. “Let’s see, I weigh 240-lbs now, so I must lose 60-lbs to accomplish my goal. That’s 5-lbs a month, or a little over a pound a week.” When broken out like that, losing 1+ lb a week seems a lot more manageable than 60-lbs in a year! Now ask yourself, how do I lose 1+ lb a week? (Or earn an extra $500 a week, or write a page of a novel a day, or spend an extra hour with the kids a week, etc.) Again, be specific. “I’ll cut out my daily candy bar. I’ll spend an extra 20 minutes walking every night. Instead of fast food for lunch, I’ll pack a healthy lunch for work.”  Make a list and commit to choosing one item each day from your list to work on reaching your goal. Then it’s time to act! In fact, if you don’t take some action on your goal within a day or two, chances are, you won’t take action in a week, or a month, or a year. Review your progress and reassess throughout your chosen time period.  How can we use others (accountability) to help us reach our goals? How does training (TTN) or learning help us with resolutions or goals in our life? A New Year is starting and it is also a great time to start new initiatives as an organization… what are your goals as a company? How do you plan to participate in reaching them? A great way to stay focused is to watch and listen to TTN’s numerous inspirational and motivational courses!  Brian Tracy has 2 courses specifically on setting goals:  Five Steps To Goal-Setting and Strategic Goal-Setting.  Log in and start today!

I’d love to hear your goals for 2009, as well as your progress throughout the year.  Send your goals to me at jarnold@ttnlearning.com.

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MICROSOFT 2007 COURSES NOW AVAILABLE

Out with the old and in with the new!  TTN is hearing more and more about companies that are upgrading from Microsoft 2003 to 2007.  Custom Guide provides TTN with courses in both Microsoft 2003 and Microsoft 2007 Office Suites. The courses have a high level of interactivity to keep the student engaged in the training. They are also indexed by skill and have book-marking ability so you can start a course and come back to where you left off for your convenience. For a free demo please call 1-800-487-3393 ext 412.
 

NEW CONTENT

TTN is proud to highlight its partnership with SkillSoft. As one of the leaders in on demand e-learning, SkillSoft provides courses that are in-depth and follow an instructional design philosophy that provides its users with both technical and business skills knowledge. TTN and SkillSoft are partnering together to provide a free demo course, The Mechanics of Communicating Effectively.

For more information please contact TTN Customer Support.

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