Hacking your brain

This article may not fit into the “usual” mode of my blog posts, but it is so cool, I think is worth a read.
Dilbert author regains his voice

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Book review: Not-so-secret Secrets

I met Sarah Taylor at a conference last week, and she was giving away her book, “Secrets of Successful Pharmaceutical Salespeople”. Sarah is an engaging speaker and generally nice person; she was a top performer with a major pharma company, then decided to spend a year interviewing top pharmaceutical salespeople with an eye toward writing [...]

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This is where we start - with a blank sheet of paper.
You talk through your training needs. Your past and present successes. We blueprint possible solutions. Arrive at answers. And we connect you to the best supplier(s) to meet your needs.
We don’t come to you with a 4-color glossy containing a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Every [...]

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Sales Training Conference Review

Just got back from a couple days at the CBI Conference for Pharmaceutical Sales Training (held in Conshohocken, PA). Overall, it was a positive time…good opportunities for networking, and many of the sessions were helpful and thought-provoking.

The conference was well-organized and run on-site - I’ve been to some other events where there seemed to be [...]

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The Friday Collection - a transition

The Friday Collection, Impactiviti’s weekly e-newsletter filled with articles and resources of interest, is now being effectively distributed via e-mail, and so those links will no longer be assembled into weekly entries on this site. Instead, the various articles and links will simply appear on this blog as stand-alone entries. Some links, however, will be [...]

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The Friday Collection for Oct. 6th

Interesting and lengthy article on “metabolic syndrome,” the cluster of conditions revolving around obesity.
An interesting example of one way to deploy quickly produced, nuggetized learning modules.
Review: LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a “social networking” site for professionals. Think of it as a global referral network, whereby you can find people through a web of trusted connections. I’ve used [...]

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Visuals Matter

We all know that “visuals” matter in learning. And in motivating, in turns out…
I admit to a certain fondness for Starbucks Frappuccinos. Now I don’t get them that often, but once in a while….ahh, you can’t beat that cool coffee sweetness.
Of course, my wife would give the standard warnings about how many calories are [...]

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