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Ed Emde
Ed Emde, President of Wilson Learning Corporation, is responsible for overall business strategy and operations in the Americas. Ed’s tenure at Wilson Learning Corporation includes serving as Executive Vice President where he was responsible for sales, marketing, and learning services operations for Wilson Learning Americas. Earlier in his Wilson Learning career, Ed managed business development and implementation services for key client relationships in the Midwest United States.
Ed has 25 years of experience working directly with senior level executives in linking human resources development, organizational development, training, and education initiatives to strategic imperatives and business outcomes. He has held executive and leadership positions with a number of leading training and organizational development companies, including Ninth House and serving as President and CEO of Blessing White. He has managed several successful turnarounds, as well as the acquisition, merger, and integration of several businesses. Ed is published in numerous print and online business publications, including CLO Magazine and Training Magazine.
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Article: Beyond the Training Event: 6 Best Practices That Ensure Learning Results
Training events on their own aren’t enough to ensure lasting performance improvement, but what can you do? Elevate any learning effort from program to performance improvement initiative with these six best practices. learn more
Article: Building Extended Learning Systems That Deliver
What does work is to combine the most critical components required for learning into a comprehensive, extended learning system. Such a system lays a foundation for the learner, establishes the why and the how for learning and provides application support to make sure newly acquired skills and knowledge are used on the job. learn more
Article: Debunking a Few Myths About Virtual Selling
While selling virtually may be different, introducing all new core selling skills to your sales professionals may not be the answer. Here are three common myths debunked to show why it's important to take a half step back from launching a new virtual selling program in order to reinforce and carry forward the best of what you already have in place. learn more
Blog: If You Want Business Results from Learning, Get Managers Involved (8 September 2009)
This past June we surveyed professionals attending the ASTD International Conference about what they are doing to make sure learning transfers to the job. As people began to fill out the survey, we kept hearing a common question: “Should we fill this out based on what we know we should be doing or based on what we are doing now?” learn more
Article: Is Your Customer Base at Risk? Protecting Your Existing Business in Tough Times
In a challenging economic climate, you may be finding that prospective customers are strongly focused on down-sizing and cost cutting rather than on expanding their business or acquiring the latest new product features. Companies that may have been in growth mode last year are putting projects on hold, reducing capital budgets, and paying renewed attention to cash management. learn more
Blog: New Year’s Resolution: Get Managers Involved for Better Learning Results (4 January 2010)
As you start out another new year, possibly with a more limited budget than in the past, you might be thinking about how to make sure you get outstanding results out of this year’s initiatives. learn more
