Performance Learning Productivity

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What Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?

Performance Learning Productivity

Data provided by the US membership organisation Training Industry suggests annual growth around 6% per year since 2009. ASTD data suggests US companies spent $164billion on employee learning and development in 2012 saying that ‘ despite a continuously changing economic environment, organizations remain committed to training and development’.

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

Performance Learning Productivity

However extrapolating the context and outcomes to make any sense of this type of data requires a series of further steps that are orders of magnitude along the path to providing meaningful insight. ATD has been producing this annual report for years (originally as the ASTD). So why is there an obsession to gather this data?

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EVER TRIED TO HIT A MOVING TARGET AT TWENTY PACES WITH A COLT 45?

Performance Learning Productivity

Sometimes L&D departments may also need to leave colleagues behind if they can’t, or won’t, join them on their journey to adapt and adopt the changes that are clear and necessary if they are to remain relevant and provide strategic value to their organisations. How Do We Know When L&D is Providing Strategic Value?

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21st Century L&D Skills

Performance Learning Productivity

Or you may have entered the learning world through a professional qualification from the CIPD, ASTD or some other national or regional awarding body, or through a College or University diploma or degree. You may have fallen into L&D from an HR generalist role. Once in the profession you lived and died by your participant feedback sheets.