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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

In this article, I’ll explore the reasons for mediocre outcomes and provide some insights into how you can improve program effectiveness. Not Recognizing the Knowing-Doing Gap Let’s face it: a lot of new leader readiness programs don’t do enough to prepare leaders for the realities of the job.

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Mind the Gap: How to Assess Sales Performance Gaps to Achieve Execution Excellence

PDG

Essentially, they know what to do because you’ve trained them. The question is, are they doing it? This is the knowing/doing gap. The knowing/doing gap refers to the disconnect between what we know we should do and what we actually do in practice.

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Optimizing Teams for Best-In-Class Sales Performance

PDG

This article explores the challenges facing sales teams in the life sciences industry and what sales leaders can do to optimize their teams for best-in-class performance. Learn More & Register The Knowing/Doing Gap The key to advancing talent is bridging the Knowing/Doing Gap.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

ID Reflections

Training” as a panacea for all ills – from lack of productivity to lack of motivation, attrition, and lost profits – is losing its power. So, a loop of training followed by application of the knowledge and processes learnt became the norm. Training looked backward on what had worked in the past. The shift has happened.

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Training - Performance Support - Learning - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Realism also adds credibility to a training course, which is quite important to the busy, cynical, or tired employee. In the previous article, Reality eLearning , you can find some ways to get a sense of your audience’s workplace reality through interviews and observations.&#. 28 Web Conference Training Tips , July 10, 2009.

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Balancing innovations and implementation

Janet Clarey

Many times, doing it right requires heavy lifting. I didn’t have much time to ‘read all about it’ when I was up to my eyeballs in training people on a new technology. Why do they fail so often? Maintaining status quo (knowing-doing gap). Journal Article: Innovation Implementation.

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The 2015 ATD International Conference Backchannel: Curated Resources #ATD2015

David Kelly

ATD2015 Session: Training gets a trim – Microlearning for a new workforce by Stan Skrabut. ATD2015 Session: Engaging Activities for Live Online Meetings, Webinars, and Virtual Training by Stan Skrabut. atd2015: Writing Blogs, Articles, and Books to Boost Your Career – Cathy Fyock by Stan Skrabut. Stop Talking!