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Is Your Business Ready for THE END OF TRAINING?

DENVER, January 28, 2006—Regis Learning Solutions (RLS), a leading provider of tailored and custom business simulations, today announced the publication of the book The End of Training: How Simulations are Reshaping Business, by Michael Vaughan, COO of RLS.

According to an Accenture study that examined high-performance workforce issues, 77 percent of executives across all industries are dissatisfied with the progress of their training departments to align learning strategies with business goals. As a result, more and more companies are choosing business simulations in an effort to create dynamic learning experiences that drive performance and create competitive advantage. The End of Training sorts through the confusion surrounding workplace simulations and answers the questions that so many learning professionals have–from what they are and what they are capable of accomplishing to best practices and how-tos for successfully leveraging simulations within your own organization.

“The best way to really learn the complexities of a business is to experience running it through different business cycles over many years while making numerous decisions along the way,” says Vaughan. “The realistic nature of business simulations reduces the time it takes managers to understand the interdependencies of an enterprise by giving them the opportunity to experiment making business decisions without facing real-world consequences. Also, what’s really unique about simulations is that they’re not pre-programmed—none of the decisions have a predetermined outcome,” according to Vaughan. “The simulation looks at the quality of all the decisions together—which makes the experience more like the real world.”
The End of Training will help your organization understand the following aspects of business simulations:

• How you can deliver rich, interactive training that closely approximates the real-world work environment.
• How to accelerate speed-to-performance (decreasing the time it takes for workers to learn new skills), allowing workers to learn in days or weeks what would traditionally take them months of on-the-job or traditional training to accomplish.
• How to afford learners ample opportunity for hands-on practice and the freedom to make and learn from their mistakes–without real-life risk to your business.
• How simulations excel at enhancing learning retention and transfer of learning to the job compared with other forms of instruction.
• How employees can apply multiple workplace skills simultaneously in ways that help them understand the vital interplay of various skill sets in the workplace.
• How to change learners’ mindsets from linear, cause-and-effect thinking to systemic thinking about the intended and unintended consequences of their actions—both to their own department and to the organization as a whole.
• How your business can generate substantial ROI through the appropriate use of simulations.

The End of Training is intended for directors and managers, learning officers, human resource specialists, executive-level decision makers and anyone who is interested in harnessing the power of simulations to transform learning experiences and accelerate speed to performance. In the book, Vaughan also helps us understand what really makes the simulations work and introduces best practices that have helped organizations successfully introduce simulations. In addition, The End of Training takes an in-depth look at the future of simulation training and examines the numerous advancements that experts anticipate will revolutionize simulations—and workplace learning—in the years to come.

About Regis Learning Solutions
Regis Learning Solutions helps companies connect business strategy with performance by shortening the learning curve for employees. RLS accomplishes this through the design, development, and execution of a series of proprietary Speed to Performance® learning products and services. The technology includes a blend of online and classroom simulations, high-impact WorkTanks®, and tested measurement and evaluation tools. Regis Learning Solutions is majority-owned by Regis University, a 125-year-old Denver-based Jesuit school.