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Key Factors of a Successful Retail Industry Training Strategy

Retail TouchPoints

Within the retail industry, staff training, teaching and upskilling is a widely recognized challenge. Low motivation is another challenge: Retail staff often struggle staying motivated, especially if the learning curve is steep or training feels irrelevant to their everyday work.

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Training Frontline Personnel in Retail: How to Do it on a Budget and Maintain High Quality

Retail TouchPoints

In retail, maintaining a knowledgeable, capable and well-trained workforce is a key factor in success, especially in categories with tight competition. The Challenges to Retail Retention High turnover rates make employers in retail cautious about investing heavily in their staff’s education and training.

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Ikea Creates Training Ecosystem to Support AI Literacy for 3,500 Employees

Retail TouchPoints

Ingka Group , parent company of Ikea Retail , has set ambitious targets for boosting the AI literacy of its organization, including AI training for approximately 3,000 employees and 500 executives.

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Gamified Training Boosts Brand’s Appliance Sales 26.2%

Retail TouchPoints

Appliance manufacturer Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte (BSH) has adopted a gamified training solution from Attensi that features competition-based true-to-life scenarios designed to help salespeople remember product features, understand shopper motivations and close the sale. Training Provides a ‘Safe Space’ to Learn and Fail.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

In this webinar you'll learn: Best practices for virtually onboarding and training sales reps. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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Announcing The First-Ever Evaluative Research On Cybersecurity Skills And Training Platforms: The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Skills And Training Platforms, Q4 2023!

Forrester eCommerce

The emergence of CS&T platforms ushers in a new era of upskilling and training focused not on point-in-time test prep but on continual learning, where practitioners go up against the latest attacker techniques individually or as a team to test technical skills, refine documented processes, and improve communication.

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5 Ways AR and VR Are Transforming Retail Training

Retail TouchPoints

In today’s tight labor market, training has become more critical than ever. Nowhere is that truer than in the retail space, where it is particularly important to train your employees quickly and engage them effectively to create long-term organizational loyalty. Customer service training. Product knowledge training.

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