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Pipedrive’s Big Sales Interview: Richard Harris

This is the final part of our series: Pipedrive’s Big Sales Interview. If you haven’t already, you can read part three, part two, or part one.
Richard Harris was born to sell.
When he was growing up, both his parents were salespeople: his father sold insurance, and his mother sold local advertising for cable news affiliates. Harris began his own sales career at the age of 11, buying Jolly Ranchers from a high schooler, marking them up and selling the candy to his classmates.
Now a sales train...

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An In-Depth Look At Why Workforce E-learning Is So Slow To Change

Fourteen years after e-learning became a standard tool for many companies, little has changed. An in-depth look at why and what trends to watch for....

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Pipedrive’s Big Sales Interview: Max Altschuler

This is part three of our four part series: Pipedrive’s Big Sales Interview. Read part two and part one.
Max Altschuler, the founder of Sales Hacker, is literally writing the book on millennials in the sales workforce. His newest book Career Hacking for Millennials is due out next March.
Altschuler, whose first book, Hacking Sales: The Playbook for Building a High-Velocity Sales Machine, was published in 2015, is a millennial himself. He bears many of the hallmarks of that generation’s workfo...

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Putting Isolation in its Place - Interactivity in Self-Paced E-learning ...

According to accepted educational wisdom, three types of formal interactivity are involved in meaningful learning:

learner-content
learner-student
learner-instructor

By accounting for these interactions in online training, learning design experts try to ensure successful outcomes.

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Pipedrive’s Big Sales Interview: Mark Hunter

This is part two of our four part series: Pipedrive’s Big Sales Interview. Read part one.
Mark Hunter is more than a sales trainer; he is a sales evangelist.
Hunter, known in the sales training world as The Sales Hunter, truly loves selling. He gives high-energy talks about connecting with custom...

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Fostering Intrapreneurship Within Your Company

Everyone knows what an entrepreneur is. But what about the entrepreneurs who work inside someone else’s company? These are the people who invent, incubate, implement and fight for new projects, products and initiatives.

They’re called intrapreneurs, and this article will explain how to discover the intrapreneurs working for your company, how to train them and why your organization needs them.

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Is Gamification Overhyped?

Is gamification "over"? A few years ago, you couldn’t Google gamification without bringing up pages of breathless articles about how incorporating game elements into life would change the workplace and the world.

Since then, articles and editorials on the subject have begun to get more skeptical.

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Online Teaching is the New Blogging

Online Teaching is the New Blogging

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Power Up Your Learning Content: Lessons We Can Learn From ...

If you’re trying to improve the quality of your learning content for online training, you’d do well to look at Massive Open Online Courses for guidance.