Is Spending Money on Translations Worth It for My International Sales and Marketing Efforts?
So, you've expanded your business into international territory. It's a great way to increase business, as 96 percent of the world's consumers live outside of the United States. Not to mention that going global gives you access to new talent pools, which could provide...
How to Save Money on Cross-Lingual Training
Having your company go global can come with its own unique set of obstacles. You've got cultural issues, new government regulations, new competition and so forth. But the biggest obstacle is overcoming the language barrier. You've likely got new, local employees that...
The A, B, C’s of Corporate Training
Training, when done right, has a direct and measurable effect on performance. Almost always, when you have issues with productivity or quality or customer service, it can be traced directly back to your training programs. Similarly, companies that excel in training...
How to Build a Healthy Corporate Culture in a Multicultural Company
Building a healthy, positive, engaging, and sustainable corporate culture is difficult, even when all of your employees are stateside. Once your organization branches out into new regions, nations, and cultures, the challenge is even greater. A strong, supportive,...
What Is eLearning and How Does It Bring Value to Your Organization?
We often think of eLearning as a very new advancement, popularized only in the 2000s. In fact, the birth of what we now call eLearning was in the 1950s, when noted Harvard professor BF Skinner invented what was called his "teaching machine". Even way back then, before...
The Benefits of Multimedia Training
Training is a requirement, no matter what type or size of business you are in. If there are five employees in your organization or five thousand, they all have to be trained for their specific functions, as well as cross-trained in other functions, to cover when...
3 Training Initiatives That Benefit Your Organization Across the Globe
Every organization strives for excellence, to be the best at what they do in their field. But with constantly changing social, political, economic, and technological climates, how can you keep your employees at the top? How do you maintain the excellence to give your...
What are Language Services and What Can These Services Do for Your Company?
Branching outside the US into other regions, nations, and cultures brings a host of challenges. Not only do you have to recruit and train workers for your overseas operations, you also have to provide top-tier marketing, legal services, and cross-company...
Corporate Training for a Diverse Group of Learning Styles
Corporate training used to be monochromatic. It consisted of either a single trainer delivering OTJ training to only one or a handful of employees, or it involved a single instructor delivering lecture-style training to a group of employees. Today, we know better. We...
Technical Documentation Translation
Perhaps one day, the world will enjoy a single, consistent language, across cultural and political barriers, making global communications seamless. In the meantime, most corporate literature, including technical documentation and training materials, is written in...
