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Our pick of training and development materials

Dec 05

Special Tweet Series Announced (Today-Leadership Styles

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At the same time as Bacal & Associates reduces blog posting, we’re doing something exciting to go along with the development of our World’s Greatest Training, Development and Learning Search Engine, and the other search engines we are working on.

For over 10 years we’ve been serving the public, our customers, and Internet visitors by finding and telling them about great or thought provoking articles on a number of topics. Over this time, we’ve created specialty (free) web sites on leadership, conflict, customer service, and many more. We’ve accumulated tons of great stuff, articles, sites, etc.

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Oct 08

Preventing Conflict – Such A Simple Idea That’s Ignored

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It’s been a decade since I wrote Conflict Prevention In The Workplace – Using Cooperative Communication. Who would believe that still, when it comes to conflict, the old standards of conflict management and conflict resolution still dominate the conflict field, while the idea of preventing unnecessary conflict in the first place is almost never mentioned.

It’s passing strange. It’s clear that once a conflict gets going, it’s much harder to put the brakes on, so why not work as hard at eliminating conflict in the first place, particularly since so much of the really destructive conflicts between people are really not about issues, per se, but about how each of the parties interacts with each other.

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Apr 27

Using Your Head To Manage Conflict Helpcard Video/Audio

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Ok. It was a fun experiment. What would happen if we took one of our content rich helpcards, had a computer voice read it, and then make a video of the result? Well, like someone said, it’s amazing that this works at all, nevermind the quality. And, well, it didn’t all fit in a 10 minute Youtube vid, so we had to speed up the voice. Well, here it is. Laugh if you like. Or better, yet, give it to someone you really don’t like much and you want to drive crazy, because I guarantee you that after listening to it twice, it’s game over to sanity.

Mar 17

Elearning Related Free Whitepapers. Keep up with the field

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Here are a few elearning and informal learning white papers that have come across our desk. Please note that these offers tend to be available for only short periods of time, so if you are interested, please grab your copies ASAP.

Top 5 Trends in Learning Technology

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Mar 11

Augment your revenue with new sources – Partner with Bacal & Associates

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Over the next while we’re going to be “unveiling” some new ways for you and I to diversify revenue streams, through some partnerships. If you are interested (overviews below) please sign on to our partnering discussion group at this location. I’m going to use that so I can communicate with potential partners without having to repeat everything. If it turns out you have no interest, just unsubscribe.

1) We are looking for a limited number of partners to sell our products (mostly e-items) as affiliates/resellers. Initially, until your first sales, the commission is a paltry 20%, but we’ll increase that quickly after your first few sales. We anticipate most successful resellers will be earning 50% of sales, quickly.

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Mar 10

Augmenting Your Professional Income – #1 Sell our products

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The economic difficulties are challenging everyone to find new revenue streams, and this is no less the case with trainers, consultants, HR professionals, and a variety of other professionals. Single revenue stream businesses are suffering even more than multiple revenue stream based businesses.

We’ve always tried, as a business strategy, to develop income from various sources — training, consulting, speaking engagements, keynotes, and also from publishing, writing, and creating learning materials. That strategy has kept us afloat so far in these tough economic times.

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