Learning innovations: firing up your measurement capability
How can you ensure that your learners’ on-the-job behaviours have been improved by their training?
Measuring L&D impact: a realistic approach in a VUCA climate
Since 1954 when Dr Donald Kirkpatrick first published ideas leading to the Kirkpatrick Model used by many learning and development professionals, considerable effort has been invested in measuring the effectiveness of L&D initiatives. We now live and work in a dynamic and ever-changing world. It’s a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. Businesses now […]
Reflection after training session
Hi I am running a short Train-the-Trainer session for a particular course and have resposnsibility for the training skills section. I want to introduce the importance of using a short reflection period at the end of sessions. The reasons for doing this off the top of my head are: that as learners we we are […]
Learning transfer
Book Review – Learning Transfer at Work
Learning Transfer at Work by Paul Matthews is a look I definitely recommend to every learning and development practitioner who wants to improve the effectiveness of their l&d interventions. Three chapters into the book I was already sold on the importance of learning transfer and why we need to take it very serious. Accoring to […]
Learning transfer: why L&D cannot beat the system and effect change through training alone
An unhelpful myth that high-performing organisations are simply made up of talented individuals is preventing L&D from better supporting their learners. Sustaining positive change post-training is a tricky feat if organisations aren’t recognised to be systems embedded with deeply ingrained cultural nuances, processes, strategy and hierarchies that may need to be combated at times. Great, I thought, […]
Learning transfer: why we need to see learning as a pathway, not an event
Learning transfer will not happen simply from a one-off training event. It takes a well-designed learning process to overcome the learning application challenge. Below are five key elements that will help L&D professionals create a pathway to success. It has been said that the goal of training is neither training, nor learning. Rather, it is to […]
Overcoming the training transfer problem by adopting a performance-centric mindset
Training transfer – the extent to which learning is applied back in the workplace – is the cause of many a sleepless night among L&D teams. But is measuring the transfer of learning the wrong thing to be worrying about when a much greater challenge – of better integrating learning within work – lies before us? Training transfer is big […]
Mobile Learning Examples For Employee Engagement
In this article, I touch upon key facets of mobile learning and how can you use it to impact your employee engagement and performance. I also share 10 examples that showcase how you can achieve this mandate. How To Use Mobile Learning To Boost Employee Engagement And Performance Mobile learning is acknowledged as a key training […]
How to give constructive feedback
As a manager you may occasionally have to give feedback for poorly executed work. The real skill is how you handle the communication process, ensuring your criticisms are tactfully asserted and the recipient leaves feeling supported and motivated to improve. There’s a meme going around that shows the difference between leadership and management. It’s a little stick figure graphic of […]
Performance-based surveys: how to collect clues that forecast the impact of training
In a three-part series, L&D data detective Kevin M. Yates explores how to collect facts, evidence and data for learning’s impact on employee performance and organisational goals. Part three shows you how to collect facts and clues that forecast and predict the impact of training. Just like a detective looks for clues that solve mysteries, […]
L&D’s Relationship with Data
This title has been taken from the Towards Maturity report published in August of this year. I was immediately drawn to the title and anyone who knows what a maths geek I am will understand why. I always loved numbers and even just playing with them, multiplying numbers by themselves repeatedly just for fun! Yes […]
How to get better return on your training spend with experiential learning
There will always be members of the team who think training is a waste of time – but it doesn’t have to be. Providing experiential learning, with adequate time for reflection, will always produce better results. A client of mine was telling me about some recent conflict management training she attended and remarked that she resented taking […]
Performance management: should we stop trying to measure the ROI of training and development?
ROI doesn’t tell the whole story when it comes to measuring the impact of L&D programmes. It’s time we found new ways of measuring and expressing the outcomes of training efforts. The number of articles and discussions about ROI in learning and development is huge, a testament to the fact as a profession, we are […]
GDPR and Kirkpatrick Levels of Evaluation 3 & 4
Hi there, I was wondering if someone could help me. We run voluntary return-to-work (after training) Kirkpatrick evaluations 3-4 in our organization. We distribute a link to an e-feedback form, but the data collected is anonymous. No email addresses, no person-identifying information, no location identifying information is collected. In other words, it is impossible to […]
LTEM: A new style of evaluating training programs
How do you evaluate a training program? The Kirkpatrick’s model has been used often since the 1960s. However, this model is way too old, states Dr. Will Thalheimer. It results in a checklist approach to evaluation and because of that it misses the true purpose. For the modern world he designed the Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model (LTEM), which states that […]
Time to Scrap Topic Specific Courses?
I got very excited recently when I read that Finland is set to become the first country in the world to get rid of all school subjects. From 2020, for children over 16, there’ll be no more science lessons, no more geography, no more history and no more boring maths! What!? Have the Finn’s, respected […]
A 360 degree view of learning: how to get organisations on board with learning design
When designing learning and development programmes, we need to think about the line managers and how they can help ensure that the learning intervention creates change. Jackie Clifford, Director of Clarity Learning and Development, looks at how to do this. In learning and development, I believe that most of us are concerned with helping individuals to learn AND, […]
Training evaluation
Is it too much to ask that the learners who attend our training courses give consideration to the blood, sweat and tears (and beers!) that go into designing our programmes? Do they acknowledge the hours of research we undertake to demonstrate that we “know our stuff”? Do they think about the careful planning and timing […]
The Impact Cryptocurrency Could Have On Business
It’s difficult to ignore the rise of cryptocurrency. Whether you bought Bitcoin, invested in one of the 1,000-plus alternatives or just watched from afar, you can’t fail to be staggered by the growth in this sector – with the aggregate market cap of all cryptocurrencies shooting up by more than 3,000% in 2017. Those numbers […]
