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PDR Design Model Supports Shift to Learning Design in the Work Context

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If we consider our job finished upon graduation from training (formal learning), our job may really be “done” when our evaluations can only confirm training activity instead of learning impact in the form of sustainable results. Their manager and help desk personnel are desk-bound at corporate. Sound familiar? Figure 1.4.

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The Learning Continuum – Using the PDR Design Model

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Preparation – the learning phase where the objective is to provide activities that contribute to a state of readiness in the learner. Look beyond that to pre-training activities that require the learner to complete some non-training activity like filling out a profile on one client from their database to utilize in class.

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Covert Consulting: A Survival Competency for Today’s Training Organizations

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We don’t have the right courses in the catalog, and I need your help to fix that.”. Tom, I can help you with that, and I need to ask a few additional questions to clarify what you seek to change about your current marketing organization. In reality, all they can boast about is activity.