Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Corporate training is a huge industry in this country, and in many ways corporations are embracing employee development like never before. According to the most recent numbers from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), American companies spent over $150 billion on training in 2011 alone.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

I said in my last post that Kirkpatrick’s four levels were all about the training itself rather than how the training affects organizations. He suggests evaluation checks throughout the training?skill skill practice, role plays, and training simulations?with to training?to It was an opportunity I couldn’t miss.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Some companies will use “Level 2: Learning” to measure whether the learners have mastered the training course content. The focus is on the training event itself and the follow-up to that event. Company executives are typically interested in the bottom line, not how well their employees apply the learning from a training class.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? At first I couldn’t think whether I actually applied how training was delivered to these different types of learners. Each student selected the group they wanted to be in.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Masie envisions a learning “cockpit” tailored to each individual employee, making all the specific training and functional tools the user needs available, as opposed to bombarding them with lots of tools and having to discern which ones are necessary. Bill Clinton at Learning 2011 — at least, I think it was Bill Clinton.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 20, 2012

Recent research by ASTD and REED Learning indicates that the top skills desired by Learning & Development departments are measuring and evaluating training. Reaction: To what degree did the learners react favorably to the training experience? Environment is the location and mode of the training.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Current research indicates that 20% of learning is formal and 80% is informal, yet 80% of training budgets are spent on formal learning and only 20% on informal learning. And he poses an even more important question—if informal learning is so efficient, why does it need training budget support?

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