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Customer Corner: Vote for TTN!

JJ Keller: Raising Your Employees' Awareness

 Product of the Month: Successful Persuasion through Public Speaking-  By Zig Ziglar

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

TTN Tech Tip: Make logging in easier for your users

This Month in History: August

A New Twist On An Old Favorite: New recommendations for favorite TTN courses!

National Customer Service Week: October 4-8, 2010

TTN Tidbits: Luck

Train Your Brain: August 2010 Word Find

 

Vote for TTN!

Elearning! Magazine, a leading print publication and online resource for the Training and Development industry, has opened balloting for the annual "Best of Elearning! 2010." As a TTN user, you may want to consider voting for TTN in one or more categories.

The LMS category is the first category and that applies to most TTN users. If you are using the TTN library of soft skills courses, you may want to cast your vote for TTN in the content category. Some companies use Social Networking products including the TTN Forum, please consider TTN. And for those of you that are using the TTN Assessments or the globalized platform for language localization, please feel free to vote your approval for those products also.  Here is the link to the ballot for Best of ELearning!.

If you are not a subscriber to Elearning! Magazine, you can find out more about the publication here.

 

 
 

Raising Your Employees' Awareness

Introducing the Winning Workforce Package from J.J. Keller. This comprehensive awareness training provides 4 attention- grabbing  courses on diversity & discrimination, sexual harassment, substance abuse, and violence in the workplace.

Help your employees learn important information that affects your organizations productivity and workplace environment.

To find out how to add these courses to your library, contact customer support.

 

TTN TIDBITS

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Luck -by Joel Arnold, TTNLearning

A local top 40 radio station’s morning show is doing a bit where they let local bands send in a recording of their music to play over the airwaves. It could be a great way for a band to get ‘discovered.’ If the right ears are listening at the right time, who knows what could happen? That would be some great luck, right?

Or – as Roy Chopin, Jr. famously said, “Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.”

The bands that had recordings ready, the bands with members who’ve spent years learning their instruments, exercising their vocal chords, writing songs, spending long hours practicing together, tightening and tweaking their songs over many hours of rehearsing – those are the bands who are prepared for this opportunity. Those are the bands who have the best chance at getting ‘lucky.’

John Milton once said, “Luck is the residue of design.” Dr. Armand Hammer said, “When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.” And Don Sutton said, “Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.”

Have you done all you can to prepare to get lucky?

August 1 - Moby Dick author Herman Melville (1819-1891) was born in New York.

August 3 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three ships, Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. Seeking a westerly route to the Far East, he instead landed on October 12th in the Bahamas, thinking it was an outlying Japanese island.(1492)

August 6 - The first Atomic Bomb was dropped over the center of Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m., by the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay. The bomb detonated about 1,800 ft. above ground, killing over 105,000 persons and destroying the city. Another estimated 100,000 persons later died as a result of radiation effects. (1945)

August 10 - Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) the 31st U.S. President was born in West Branch, Iowa. He was the first President born west of the Mississippi.

August 14 - After three days of secret meetings aboard warships off the coast of Newfoundland, the Atlantic Charter was issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Charter, a foundation stone for the later establishment of the United Nations, set forth eight goals for the nations of the world, including; the renunciation of all aggression, right to self-government, access to raw materials, freedom from want and fear, freedom of the seas, and disarmament of aggressor nations. By September, fifteen anti-Axis nations signed the Charter. (1941)

Action is the foundational key to all success.
                                   ~ Pablo Picasso 


Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
                                      ~Dale Carnegie
 

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

                                                   ~ Bill Cosby


~ In Ireland, Jack O’Lanterns were once carved from turnips

~ Contrary to popular belief, a camel’s hump does not store water. Instead, it’s filled with fat, which allows the animal to go for a month without food. If the hump becomes depleted, it will shrink, flop over, and hang at the camel’s side.
 

   
 Customer Service Week

 

 

 

TTN Tech Tip

Many companies have a company branded page that employees use as a one stop shop for news, events, and product information.  Logging in to the LMS can easily be incorporated into that page as well.  The user would only need to supply their User ID and Password - Company ID will not be needed.

TTN also offers single sign-on functionality.  For more information on either of these options, please contact your customer support representative.
 

TRAIN YOUR BRAIN

Take a break. Print and complete the
TTNLearning August 2010 Word Find!


 



 TTN Recommends

Faculty Member:  Learning Communications
Course Title:  Managing Four Generations In The Workplace

For the first time in a lot of managers' careers, we are dealing with four generations in the workplace.  We may know a lot about them because we have encountered the different personalities throughout our lives, but have we ever been educated on how to manage them?  This course has helped me understand my own leadership tendencies along with my employees'.  It is easy to follow, has quick to the point information, and gives situational advise that can be used immediately.  I recommend this course to new and tenured managers.

                 - Jenny Ellingen, Customer Care Manager

            


Looking for a new twist on an old favorite?

Last issue we highlighted some of the most popular TTN courses. This month we're adding a new twist. Below are some TTN Favorites with new and additional courses on the same topics, from our partner SkillSoft. If you are looking to add some additional content to your library, contact customer support.

Developing Personal Power
     - Managing from within: Self-empowerment
     - Generating creative and innovative ideas
     - Implementing creative and innovative ideas

Fast Tracking Your Career
     - Get your career on the fast track
     - Communication skills to fast track your career

Five Keys To Personal Power
     - Managing from within: Self-empowerment
     - Generating creative and innovative ideas
     - Implementing creative and innovative ideas

Be A Better Communicator
     - Using effective business communication
     - Communication and leadership
     - Resolving conflict with communication skills

Service Excellence
     - Overcoming difficult service situations
     - Excellence in internal customer service

Listening Is Number One
     - Effective listening curriculum – 5 course series

Planning and Organizing
     - Strategic planning
     - Initiating and planning a project

10 Skills for Better Telephone Communication
     - Making telephone calls count
     - Effective telephone techniques

Service – Creating Moments of Magic
     - The fundamentals of exceptional customer service

Consultative Selling
     - Consulting with the external client curriculum - 5 course series

Successful Persuasion through Public Speaking

So You Want To Be A Public Speaker? Maybe Even A Famous Public Speaker? You can, and Zig Ziglar can help you! Just the thought of helping people, lots of people, get what they want motivates tens of thousands of people to dream about a career as a public speaker. Once they consider that they can also get paid for speaking, and possibly even become famous. . . well, they can't wait to get on stage and get started! Getting started, however, is a point that many would-be speakers never reach. And it's not because they have nothing to say or that they can't say it well. No, it's usually because they don't understand the theory that "You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have." It's one of Zig Ziglar's lesser-known quotes, but it's perhaps his most applicable and powerful quote as it relates to a speaking career. Click here to read more

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