Transform Your Learning Function to Meet Changing Business Needs

Training outsourcing is growing at a faster rate than any time in the last five years, according to Doug Harward’s review of the key training trends in 2015. This is understandable, given that today’s organizations are emerging from difficult economic conditions.

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PMP Question of the Week: Forecasting a Necessary CPI Based on an ETC

In this new series of questions, PMP Formula of the Week, this post was provided by author Bill Scott. In the previous PMP Formula of the Week, “Forecasting a Necessary CPI,” we discussed the recently publicized Earned Value Management (EVM) term To Complete Performance Index (TCPI) and what it could do for you. Now we […]

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Six Tips for Passing a Microsoft Certification Exam (from Someone Who Hates Taking Tests)

I have taken a lot of Microsoft certification exams over the last 20 years. I can’t say that I am ever excited to take an exam, but I have done well on them. Over the years I have developed an approach to taking exams and have generally passed many more than I have failed. In fact, as I started thinking about it, I have never failed an exam for which I have gone through the process that I am laying out herein. You do not need to follow this approach, but you definitely need an approach. Taking a Microsoft certification exam “cold” is a good way to end up retaking a Microsoft certification exam.

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