Studies by Stanford Research Institute and the Carnegie Mellon Foundation among Fortune 500 CEOs found that 75% of long-term job success depended on people skills and only 25% on technical skills. This is true at other employee levels as well.

A survey of over 1,000 CEOs worldwide conducted by IBM in 2008 shows that the number one way for their organizations to manage change is through investing in people skills training.

A recent international survey by global business performance consultancy McKinney Rogers found that almost 80 per cent of business leaders believe that developing their workforce’s people skills is a key tactical tool in fighting recession.

Treeline Training, Inc. announced today a new collection of nine one-hour short mini-programs. Called The TreeLine Training X-Press™, the collection meets the changing HR compliance and people skills training needs of today’s time-constrained managers, supervisors and employees. The TreeLine Training X-Press collection comes in Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation files that new and experienced trainers can easily customize to deliver company-specific training sessions.

Several factors are contributing to the growth of blended learning as a vehicle to grow knowledge and skill while increasing productivity.