Sales Training in a Virtual World

I’m a sales guy. My world is sales performance, sales coaching and training. I’m also a learning and development specialist with a penchant for the future. As a futurist I’m exposed to hard trends which evolve into the future and I’m able to translate these into predictions for industries. Today, this is how I see L&D evolving. The hard trend is clear and here. A lot of people get caught up in Star Trek type imaginations but the big three tech companies have wheeled out their virtual reality offerings and…

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Stanford Sim

Stanford Training Area – known as STANTA but originally known as Stanford Battle Area – is a British Army training area situated in a large expanse of Stanford in Norfolk. All over the vast expanse are simulations built to mirror the battle ground the British Army are currently facing. Right now there are battle scenes imitating Afghan villages and terrain. A couple of miles away are simulations of Northern Ireland, echoing streets of Belfast, when our forces were involved across the Irish Sea. These are long forgotten now. You can…

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