From 2004: Commitment, not size, limits training

This is another Training Tracks blog post from the archive of No Train, No Gain, originally published Nov. 11, 2004: I have long believed that a newspaper’s training program depends more on its commitment and ambition than on its resources. Peter Haggert and Phil Andrews are demonstrating that at the Telegraph-Journal, based in Saint John, [...]

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From 2005: Ideas on stimulating workshop participation

This is another blog post from the archives of No Train, No Gain, originally posted Jan. 14, 2005. I presented a workshop this week that illustrates some lessons I have learned about how participation can be more important than content in training. From the first, the content was strong in my workshop on generating story [...]

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From 2005: Calculating the return on training investment

This is another post from the archive of my Training Tracks blog on No Train, No Gain, originally posted Feb. 16, 2005, with my updates in boldface. I did not try to track down all the people to provide updates, and did not interrupt the flow to provide most updates about individuals. Few of the [...]

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