TTN Training Tips & News

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Product of the Month: Secrets of Closing the Sale- By Zig Ziglar

TTN Recommends:
A course recommendation from a member of the TTN staff!

TTN's New Video Tutorials

This Month in History: May

Abobe Training: Abobe training now available!

ZigOn: Survival Tactics: Zig's Podcasts Now Available!

TTN Tidbits: Memorial Day

Train Your Brain: May 2010 Word Find

Privacy Matters

TTN is proud to announce its new privacy standards. TTN is now a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. "TTN is committed to protecting the privacy of user data," said Mike Begin, Director of IT & Product Development at TTN. "Our Safe Harbor Certification demonstrates the importance we give to the issue of privacy and our ongoing commitment to protecting sensitive and confidential data. We are excited to be on the U.S. Department of Commerce's formal list of certified organizations." In association with this compliancy TTN now regularly updates privacy information on its website at www.ttnlearning.com

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TTN TIDBITS

Memorial Day -by Joel Arnold, TTNLearning

With Memorial Day coming up – a day in which we honor and remember those who’ve given their lives while serving our country – it’s a good time to consider how we’d like to be remembered. What legacy do we want to leave behind? What do we want to be known for? What accomplishments will we have achieved that impact those around us?

It’s so easy for life to get away from us. Days, months and years can pass, and we can look back and wonder, ‘What have I accomplished?’ If your answer is ‘watched a lot of television, played a lot of video games, and/or worked in a job in which you have no passion for’ then you might want to rethink things a bit. Lying on your deathbed is not the best time to start thinking about legacies.

What sort of legacy do you want to leave behind? A scholarship in your name? A charitable organization? A legacy of kindness and generosity? You don’t actually need monuments and statues erected in your name. Raising well-adjusted kids can be a great legacy, too.

The late, great Jim Rohn often talked about leaving a legacy, and I recommend any of his How To Have Your Best Year Ever courses in TTN’s catalog. As he once said, “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

Use it well.

May 4 - At Kent State University, four students - Allison Krause, 19; Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20; Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20; and William K. Schroeder, 19 - were killed by National Guardsmen who opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 students protesting President Richard Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia. Eleven others were wounded. The shootings set off tumultuous campus demonstrations across America resulting in the temporary closing of over 450 colleges and universities.(1970)

May 5 - Celebrated in Mexico as Cinco De Mayo, a national holiday in remembrance of the Battle of Puebla in 1862, in which Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza, outnumbered three to one, defeated the invading French forces of Napoleon III.

May 6 - Founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was born in Freiberg, Moravia. His theories became the foundation for treating psychiatric disorders by psychoanalysis and offered some of the first workable cures for mental disorders. (1856)

May 10 - Former political prisoner Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa. Mandela had won the first free election in South Africa despite attempts by various political foes to deter the outcome.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

~ Thomas Alva Edison

No rules for success will work if you don't.
~Anonymous

~ Forks were first used at the table in the middle east during the 7th century.

~ Zero was invented in India by Indian mathematicians dating as early as the 5th century.

~ Most of us spend six years or more of our lifetime dreaming.

ZigOn: Survival Tactics

The giraffe is the largest mammal that gives birth while standing up. I don't speak "giraffe," but I can imagine what the baby giraffe must think when he bounces on the ground from that great height. He just left warm, cushioned quarters in which all his needs, comforts and security were provided. Now he finds himself bouncing off (comparatively speaking) hard, cold, unwelcoming ground.

Almost immediately thereafter, a new trauma occurs in the baby giraffe's life. As he struggles to his knees, Mama Giraffe gets busy "persuading" him to stand up. She does this as he wobbles to his feet by giving him a swift kick to prod him to faster action. No sooner does he reach his feet than Mama delivers a booming kick that knocks the baby giraffe back down. . . . I can well imagine the baby giraffe thinking, "Well, make up your mind, Mom! First you kicked me to make me stand up. Then you kicked me back down!" . . .

That process is repeated several times because Mama Giraffe loves her baby. . . . Mama Giraffe knows that the only chance for survival her baby has is to be able to quickly get up and move out of harm's way. Yes, kicking the baby up and down seems like a strange way to show love. But for a baby giraffe it is the ultimate expression of love.

Caution: That approach definitely won't work in the "people" world, but the principle will. Real love is evidenced when you do what is best for the other person, whether or not they appreciate it at that moment. Think about it and I'll SEE YOU AT THE TOP!

TTN Tutorials

TTN now has exciting new tutorials that are flash-based videos with narration! These will walk new users and site administrators through some of the functionalities within the TTN LMS. The tutorials provide easy to understand step-by-step instructions on various training features such as reporting, bulk user uploads, and the TTN file cabinet... with more tutorials to be added soon!

To have these tutorials added to your account email us!

TRAIN YOUR BRAIN

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TTNLearning May 2010 Word Find!

TTN Recommends

Faculty Member: Brian Tracy
Course Title: Selling On Non-Price Issues

Anyone in the sales profession can benefit from this course. Brian points out that anyone can have the lowest price for their product or service, but to beat the competition they need to focus on aspects other than price. These topics include quality, delivery, installation, service, terms, follow-up support, and responsiveness.
My understanding is that companies that have adopted this training have benefited greatly.

- Tim Kalb, TTN Inside Territory Manager

Secrets of Closing the Sale

Zig shares tips and techniques from his vast wealth of sales experience. His insights will prove to you over and over why this is the definitive “how to" sales program. This powerful series of timeless sales messages will help you close more sales today as you build a career for tomorrow! Whether you're a seasoned sales veteran or just now beginning your first sales position, Secrets Of Closing The Sale provides you with practical advice and effective questioning techniques that you can use to transform prospects into clients. Learn step by step over 100 specific closes and over 700 questions that lead the prospect to the decision table. This is the only "pure" sales book ever to make it to the New York Times Best-Seller list.

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