Published by Niall Devitt, Btb Business Training

This post is the result a conversation I had with one of my clients who is very nervous in terms of what the future holds for her business. Siobhan, this is for you.

Firstly, Lets get real here, this is by no means the first, worst or last recession. In fact, many businesses do better during recession than during boom times.

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Published by Niall Devitt, Btb Business Training

Having a child follow in your footsteps was once a source of pride for Ireland’s parents. Not any more according to a a recent survey by recruitment consultants Hudson Sales & Marketing who asked 1000 UK and Ireland based sales and marketing professionals.

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Paul McCord, sales guru, trainer and author of  “Creating a Million Dollar a Year Sales Income: Sales Success through Client Referrals” is frankly someone I have come to admire greatly, while I don’t necessarily always agree with his position, his knowledge, honestly and calling it as he sees it is entirely refreshing and his blog is a must for anyone involved with sales.

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Btb Guest Author: David Perry

The Trainer’s Diary published in the First Train magazine provides me with much amusement and often confirms how little expertise is out there when it comes to doing role-plays amongst other things. In the trainer’s diary in the June edition we hear that the trainer – Monica, isn’t a big fan of role plays and comments that people feel they have to perform or act. Reading this article gave me a clear understanding on why that is.

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Published by Niall Devitt, Btb Business Training

I was over at David Stein’s blog and came across a very funny YouTube video on PowerPoint from a comedian called Don McMillian. Having previously worked for IBM and At&T, Don is now a stand up comedian who specialises in corporate events, has appeared on American TV shows, and commercials including one for Budweiser.

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Btb Guest Author: David Perry

There are nowhere near enough good commentators and very little real debate about corporate training in Ireland, it is unfortunately all too rarely that I am struck by what Irish trainers have to contribute.

Recently however, I came across a letter in the Irish HR and training magazine First Train which is published by www.corpoaratetraining.ie The letter referred to an earlier article on so called team building activities and events such as abseiling, paintballing, quad biking etc etc, which are proving to be increasingly popular with Irish business.

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Published by Niall Devitt, Btb Business Training

I’m often asked for the reason or reasons behind why corporate training so often fails so here goes:

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