What Is a Security Assessment?
Over the past few years, Windwalker has been instrumental in providing professional security advisory services to various clients throughout the Greater Boston Area. Most recently, these clients include Keolis Commuter Services, the Boston Cannabis Commission, the Nubian Square Development Association and Boston Global Investors. For these organizations, Windwalker conducted in person physical security assessments, reviewed architectural drafts, building renderings, and held question/answer sessions to develop an understanding of the current security posture and design method. Among the services provided to the above-named clients, the Windwalker team.
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WINDWALKER XP (The Unveiling of a Revolutionary Learning System)
You don’t have to look very hard to find plenty of articles, blogs, or thought pieces on the state of the workforce these days. And having worked in the training field for over two decades now, I know that trying to provide learning and professional development opportunities to your workforce has been a challenge for a long time. It’s a constant that adult learning professionals have long been trying to solve.
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Boston Business Journal names Herby Duverné among its list of ‘Movement Makers” on the list of the BBJ 2020 Power 50
The Boston Business Journal has named Herby Duverné among its honorees in its “The Movement Makers: Boston Business Journal's Power 50.”
Within the Greater Boston business community, there are many extraordinary individuals who are taking a stand, creating change, and taking actionable steps to work together to help Boston grow and be a place for equity, inclusion, and diverse point of views.
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Why Gamification can be Effective for Training – even Essential!
Most people shut down immediately at the thought of enduring another training. Whether we force people to the classroom to watch slide after slide (or in our new world the Zoom room to watch slide after slide) or giving them an “engaging” eLearning course that, face it, oftentimes has them clicking through slide after slide, it’s become largely a passive activity. We’ll teach. You listen (and maybe answer a few emails).
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An overview of Windwalker’s Services for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Aeronautics Division
In 2017, Windwalker partnered with MassDOT’s Aeronautics Division in order to accomplish their primary objective: develop a drone operations program that could provide support services to integrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, or “drones”) into MassDOT and MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) operations.
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Windwalker CEO Herby Duverne Makes The List of Boston's 2021 Power 50 List: Movement Makers
Windwalker Group could not be more proud of our Principal and CEO, Herby Duverné being selected as one of the Boston Business Journal's 2021 Power 50 List: Movement Makers! Congratulations to all the fellow Boston selections past and present on making our city a better place!
To read the full article and find out more about the Movement Makers here: https://bit.ly/3FMssOO
Congratulations again Herby!
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WINDWALKER GROUP WELCOMES NEW COO NICK MACSATA
Mr. Macsata brings 25 years of organizational leadership with successful Homeland Security, Operations Management, Logistics, Marketing, and Human Resources experiences. As an Army Officer, he deployed to Baghdad from April 2005 – April 2006 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. Nick served as the Commander of the 1st Civil Support Team (Weapons of Mass Destruction). Nick also has private sector experience where he was a Global Product Manager achieving 165% of business unit sales goals while maximizing profitability.
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Tips to Develop Effective Sales Training for Your Team
Most roles require training, but sales positions are often tasked with a heavy curriculum regarding their craft. In addition to product training, we often find ourselves learning new sales processes and methodologies to help us become “better” sales professionals. All of this training, often done in-person or virtually, takes us out of the field and away from closing business. To a majority in the field, our biggest question when scheduled for more training is “Is this necessary”?
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Converting your Existing ILT Training to Online
This is not an “ILT Bad, eLearning Good” article. Good effective training can be delivered in person or online. Ineffective and non-engaging training can also be delivered in both ways. No, this piece is about options, mainly the option to take training content you already have and expand its reach and effectiveness in other ways.
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A Letter From The CEO About Aiming Higher in 2021
Each year our firm adopts a theme that focuses on our priorities for the incoming year and the goals we must meet. This year, we decided to choose “Aiming Higher” as our 2021 theme.
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The Future of Training: A Beginner’s Guide to Virtual Reality
The concept and practice of training has existed for a very long time. The boundaries of effective training have been slowly pushed forward, and sometimes backward, by existing and emerging technology.
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The Security Advantage: How to Integrate Security to Give Your Cannabis Business a Competitive Edge
With marijuana legalization attracting new businesses into the marketplace, navigating specific and detailed government regulations can be a daunting task for ownership; never mind planning for security issues including theft by employees, robberies at brick-and-mortar locations, and fraud involving delivery and transportation of stock and cash assets.
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The Future of Training: Microlearning
Our world is fast paced, mobile, and constantly evolving. Banks, clothing stores, coffee shops and car dealerships have completely rethought how they do business. They offer easily accessible applications that users can navigate quickly, seamlessly, and promptly execute the function of their choice. The one thing all these industries have in common? They are trying to make things simpler and faster for their customer, because they’ve learned the hard way, people just don’t have time. So, why isn’t the field of training and professional development doing the same?
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Boston CEO launches 'Greenwood Challenge' to fund racial-justice initiatives
We’re proud to announce that our CEO Herby Duverné, has kickstarted a challenge to local businesses with the goal of funding — and finding — racial justice solutions in Massachusetts communities. He is challenging Black and brown businesses and allied white business leaders to donate and work toward narrowing the wealth gap between races.
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Windwalker Group's "The Future of Training is Upon Us" Featured in the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Blog
Windwalker Group is privileged to have contributed to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Blog. One of our training experts gives perspective about how our current climate has rapidly moved the timeline for the future of training to the present.
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