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www.trainingmag.com VOLUME 45 NUMBER 5 contentsJ FEATURES U NE 2008 60 Meetings CPR No more “Death by PowerPoint.” You can have compelling meetings—if, instead of talking to your audience, you talk with participants. BY GAIL DUTTON 64 How Secure Is Your Data? Executive leadership, technology, and mandatory employee training can help to plug internal data leaks. BY KELLY SHERMACH 68 Training Leadership Summit Wrap-Up 24 Straight from San Diego: pearls of wisdom from keynoters and details from the Open Space session, plus photos from the Top Young Trainers awards program and cocktail receptions. BY LORRI FREIFELD 24 40 48 54 Changes With Penguins An exclusive Q&A with Harvard guru John Kotter, whose penguin fable and training program teach organizations how to Lead Bold Change, plus case studies of three companies that are successfully implementing change initiatives. BY LORRI FREIFELD DEPARTMENTS 4 Online TOC Web-only content and services 6 Editor’s Note Championing Change BY LORRI FREIFELD Keeping Forced Ranking Out of Court Whether you love it or loathe it, forced ranking is here to stay. And trainers, the experts say, can play a crucial role in helping their organizations to deploy the system effectively, consistently, and fairly. BY SARAH BOEHLE 8 Live & Online Calendar of events 10 Training Today News, stats, and business intel BY MARGERY WEINSTEIN 14 Soapbox Accreditation Advantage BY WILLIAM J. ROTHWELL AND GREG G. WANG Across the Board They may be smart, seasoned executives, but board directors still can—and should—benefit from training. BY GAIL DUTTON 18 How-To Launch a Training Consultancy BY KENDRA LEE 20 World View Focus on Russia BY KIMBERLY BLANCHARD-CATTAROSSI AND DR. IRINA PSHENICHNIKOVA Certify Me It’s simple to get employees to go to mandatory certification programs: You just fire them if they don’t go. But how do you make voluntary certification programs a draw? BY HOLLY DOLEZALEK 72 Tools of the Trade Survey Says 64 BY SARAH BOEHLE 74 Inprint Books in review 80 Questions for Covey Generational Synergy COVER/TOC PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN KOTTER BY JOHN BURKE Training Vol. 45, No. 5 (ISSN# 0095-5892, USPS #414-190) is published monthly, except bi-monthly in March/April, July/August, November/December, by Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Copyright 2008 by Nielsen Business Media. All rights reserved. 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003; (646) 654-4500. Annual subscription rate: $79 US, $89 Canadian includes 7% GST, and $159 all other countries. Single copy price: $10 (except February, $35 and October, $35), plus shipping and handling. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY, and additional mailing offices. Canada Post Publications Mail Agreement No. 40031729. Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to: DHL Global Mail, 4960-2 Walker Road, Windsor, ON N9A 6J3. Printed in USA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Training, P.O. Box 2104, Skokie, IL 60076-9367. w w w. t r a i n i n g m a g . c o m t r a i n i n g JUNE 2008 | 1 http://www.trainingmag.com http://www.trainingmag.com

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Training Magazine - June 2008 Contents Online TOC Editor’s Note Live & Online Training Today Soapbox How-To World View Changes With Penguins Keeping Forced Ranking Out of Court Across the Board Certify Me Meetings CPR How Secure Is Your Data? Training Leadership Summit Wrap-Up Tools of the Trade Inprint Questions for Covey

Training Magazine - June 2008

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