Socrates Says

Coaching

Coaching We are constantly looking to our clients to help us determine what additional learning classes we should create. We get a lot of very good suggestions. Recently, I was asked to create selling skills classes for service management and supervision, foremen and customer contact personnel. We are creating those classes now. Another suggestion from […]

e-Learning

e-Learning Twenty years ago, in 1999, John Chambers, then CEO of CISCO Systems said, “Education over the internet is going to make email usage look like a rounding error.” The renowned Clairmont Professor and business guru thought that “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” As those of you who […]

People

People Nothing is possible in the parts and service business without people. We closed our last post with the fact that we have standards of operations that address the people subject. These are “traditional” standards which are based on traditional operational methods and systems and processes. But our operations need to be tuned up. Let’s […]

Innovation and the Challenge

Innovation and the Challenge Last week we talked about the challenge in the acquisition and retention of the talented people that you would need over the coming years. We also addressed the challenge of the new partnerships required between businesses and the education system.  Through this partnership, we can fill the learning to employment chasm. […]

The Challenge

The Challenge We are getting close to being in a position of complete saturation in the jobs market. We now have more jobs open than we have workers looking for a job. That has not happened for a long time. We now have over 6,000,000 jobs open across the country. The most recent Gordon report, […]

A Reintroduction

A Reintroduction We are very pleased to announce the latest news from Learning Without Scars. Our goal here at Learning Without Scars is to provide cost effective, comprehensive, content-rich dynamic learning products. We have developed these programs from the classroom programs which we used and which evolved from our training assignments worldwide over the past […]