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  UNISON Newsletter - Edition 3
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Larry Cerri writes about how UNISON's fully recorded and categorized results lay the groundwork for Kirkpatrick Level 4 Evaluation.
Over the past six months, we’ve been working with training professionals in the pharmaceutical industry who are using UNISON’s process and fully recorded results to assess the effectiveness of their training, correlating the results to the ascending four levels of the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model.
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An Interview with Training Designer Pat Brost
Pat Brost has more than 30 years experience in the areas of strategic planning, organizational development, sales, marketing and training. Each of the programs she designs has two common threads – make sure the content is focused on measurable performance objectives and make the program as engaging, fun, and interactive as possible for the audience.

UNISON:
Change is inevitable in everything that we do. Would you describe your observations and experiences in how training design has changed in the past five years?
  In This Issue
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UNISON Levels the
Kirkpatrick Model
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A Conversation with a
Training Designer
International
UNISON in China
What's Nu
Sidestep Field Sales Gaffes
Meghan Bourke Joins
Mike Berkowitz Keeps the Beat
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Heard from our Clients
PB: The most noticeable change that’s affected me personally – and positively - is the increased use of professional training personnel in instructional design. Training and employee development are now being recognized and accepted as strategic business objectives that can have a real, positive impact on an organization’s bottom line.
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UNISON Goes International
UNISON IN CHINA
Each year, Deloitte, one of the Big Six accounting firms, conducts a Global New Partners Seminar for its new "class" of appointed Partners. This year the seminar was held in China.
UNISON Across Cultures
China PalaceChina was the perfect country for Deloitte’s newly appointed Partners to meet together for the first time. They represent the future leadership of Deloitte while China is well on the road to becoming a future global economic power. The goals of the meeting were to celebrate their promotions, build networks, understand the nuances of functioning as a global team, learn about the many resources that the partners can tap into, and achieve a better appreciation of how to enhance relationships with their clients.
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What's Nu
Sidestep Field Sales Gaffes
focus magazineJim Diefenbach, Associate Director of Sales Training and Development of Sepracor and Karl VanLedtje, Principal of the VLA Group describe how UNISON helps to transform knowledge learning into application learning and confirmed sales readiness. They point out that UNISON satisfies client requirements for highly motivating interactive engagements, accurate knowledge checks, drives down costs and tightens meeting time frames, and provides instant and real-time assessments. Bottom-line: field-ready sales reps.
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Drumming the Night Away
Mike Berkowitz…is Mike Berkowitz, UNISON's Director of New Business Development, seen here with the entire L5 Jam Band at Elliot Masie's LEARNING 2005 in Orlando. The band, led by Skidmore College Professor of Music Gordon Thompson, played for two receptions and the Awards Banquet. Made up of Chief Learning Officers of BMS, NIKE, CUNA, MASSMUTUAL, OWENS CORNING, TARGET, WEGMAN's and AMERICAN EXPRESS, the group rocked!
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Heard From Our Clients
"Your team was phenomenal! I appreciate their professionalism and 'can do' attitude."
Director of Primary Care Training, National Pharmaceutical Brand Alignment Meeting, July 2005
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"The sales teams really liked the UNISON terminals and the District Managers found the computerized certification very easy to use. Thanks for working so hard to make it as turn key and user friendly as possible, it made a world of difference."
Training Manager, National Sales Meeting, August 2004
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"Thanks again for everything, the flexibility in set-up at the last minute and teamwork in problem solving ensured a successful certification process for all."
Training Manager, Major Pharmaceutical Company, August 2005
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"I can think of no other vendor that comes close to you guys in terms of
customer service and client satisfaction. Simply put, without you and
your tapestry of talents, there would be no [program]."
Director of Global Development, Global Financial Services Firm, October 2005
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"[Real time] data can stop you from making a lot of mistakes. UNISON saved us a tremendous amount of heartache, work and time on trying to compile the data. What’s more, UNISON gave the brand teams that confidence that people would leave knowing their stuff."
Chief Learning Officer, U.S. Pharmaceutical company, December 2005
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Meet Us in Dallas, Pardners!

Visit our Booth#1447 at the ASTD 2006 International Conference
& Exposition
in the Dallas Convention Center, Texas from
May 7 – 10, 2006. It’s the BIGGEST annual event in the
training profession.
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ASTD

Catch Us in the Windy City
UNISON will also be at Booth #720 at SPBT’s (Society of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Trainers) 35th Annual Conference and Expo - at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, Illinois from May 22-25, 2006.
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