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Has Employee Training Gotten Dull? Use Gamification to Enhance It

Success

Employee training can often feel dull and tedious, especially if you are working remotely and doing it in a vacuum. British computer programmer Nick Pelling is credited with coining the term in 2002. British computer programmer Nick Pelling is credited with coining the term in 2002. billion in 2020.

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Making the Transition From Military Service to Building Businesses

Success

When it was time to go to college, Dziwulski accepted the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship at the University of Maryland. She credits her military training for her grit, which has helped her be a successful business owner. Her Navy training helped her persevere through challenging times. “If

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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

Success

Despite any obstacles students face, since its creation in 2002, the school has enjoyed impressive outcomes, boasting a college readiness score 27% higher than the city’s in 2019. It’s clear that students should be made aware of viable alternatives, such as vocational training, to traditional higher education.

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

As a high-school player, she caught the eye of the Tennessee State track and field coach, who recognized her tremendous ability and began training her as a runner. Fascinated by her older sister’s basketball games, Rudolph was determined to take to the court herself and fought her way through painful rehabilitation and physical therapy.

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When a client's site cries out for help

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs When a client’s site cries out for help Monday, October 6, 2008 at 3:39 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Web/Tech Like many small developers, I built a number of websites between 1998 and 2002 using the then standard approach of hand-coded HTML and, later, a web editing program.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

Success

Now, I am living my calling in ways I was unable to imagine in 2002. I could look into the training programs and research people who are already successful in the field,” she said. Just over a year later, our little Texan, Matthew Raymond, arrived. What’s the first thing you could do?” I asked her. “I

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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

Success

By Dyson’s side since they met at art school was Deirdre, an illustrator and graphic designer by training (she now custom-designs carpets ). Between his taped-up prototype and the beginning of his current market prevalence, there were 15 years of rejections, lawsuits and near-bankruptcy, alongside thousands of prototype revisions.

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