When it comes to training, off-the-shelf curriculums don’t always do the trick. Especially if it’s an outdated PowerPoint deck being passed off as training. That’s why companies often turn to custom training—it does what boxed training can’t do. It delivers tailor made content directly to your … [Read more...] about Using Customized Training Programs to Get Better Results

PowerPoint Designer with Office 365 PowerPoint Designer, a new service for Office 365 subscribers, suggests design ideas automatically so you can visually enhance any PowerPoint presentation and design more impressive slides. Notice, as you are adding content to your slides the Design Ideas … [Read more...] about Tech Tips: Designing Slides with Office 365

In this digital age we can capture screenshots of text on just about any device or take a picture of text using our phone.  There may be times when it would be useful to convert the image of text to actual text.  That could save you an enormous amount of time retyping text or possibly converting … [Read more...] about Tech Tips: How to Extract Text from Pictures in OneNote

Representing Microsoft's best of breed partners from around the globe, the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) was formed in 1994 as a way to facilitate mutual growth and business development among partners. This year—our team at CTG along with Quality Technology … [Read more...] about Corporate Training Group, Inc. (CTG) Takes Home 2016 New Jersey IAMCP Partner of the Year Award

When it comes to modern day training—it’s all about productivity. Which means that all-day education sessions for teams isn’t an easy option any more. And with more and more employees working remotely—bringing everyone together can be a difficult and expensive task. Not to mention—each employee … [Read more...] about Chunk Learning: Why Bite-Sized Education Works Better for Employees

The earmark of a successful company isn’t just measured by a profitable bottom line—but also by employee well-being. Defined in the workplace by high levels of motivation and engagement, quality relationships, effective communication, respect, trust, fairness and strong leadership, well-being is … [Read more...] about The Power of Positive: Why Employee Well-Being Matters

Have you ever felt like it was going to take you forever to clean up your data so you could analyze it or extract what you need?  Fortunately, the Flash Fill feature makes these tasks easier with brilliant automatic filling. Most Excel users need to manipulate a column of data—whether it’s simply … [Read more...] about Tech Talk: Work Faster in Excel with Flash Fill

This year marks our 25th Anniversary here at CTG. So we thought what better way to celebrate than with a blog post. As a matter of fact, it’s our FIRST ever blog post, which calls for a celebration as well! But before we get too carried away with the parties—let’s take a quick trip back down memory … [Read more...] about 25 Years of Training in the Books