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Teachable Moments vs. Ongoing Awareness Reminders As a follow up to the previous blog regarding the sensitive ethics document from the Committee on Standards that ended up in the hands of The Washington Post, I wanted to take a look at teachable moments vs. ongoing awareness reminders. If you go to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct web site and look up their training requirements for 2009 you will see an example of once-a-year training requirements and you will see individual training requirements are based on pay scales.  This seems ironic to me since the Committee on Standards blamed a low-level staffer for theRead More →

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There seems to be a real transformation taking place across all industries…lower turnouts at trade shows and conferences and cutbacks with training.  With trade shows and conferences, I am seeing more and more discounts being offered to attract attendees and some trade shows and conferences are even offing reduced rates on hotel rooms. With training, I am seeing cutbacks within companies paying for training and I am seeing cutbacks by companies that deliver training services. The economic downturn and budget cuts are playing a big part in whether or not organizations can afford to send their employees to trade shows and conferences or pay forRead More →