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The Unexamined Leadership Program is Not Worth Doing

The Performance Improvement Blog

If you’re not going to evaluate a leadership development program, don’t do the program! End-of-program reactionnaires (aka smile sheets) don’t count as evaluation. Viv Nunn of UK’s Open University, in an article for TrainingZone , explains some of the reasons for evaluating professional development programs.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Data indicates that less than 20% of participants apply learning from formal training programs. Unfortunately, companies continue to spend most of their employee development budget and most of their time and effort on training programs and systems tracking training activities. Manager’s Role is People. It’s the Culture.

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Measuring The Effectiveness of Your Blended Learning Program

Obsidian Learning

Though these surveys provide a window into how your learners are responding to the learning event, will they be enough to back you up when there is a need for a greater investment in training, when budgets are lean, or when there is a downturn in your associated markets? Sometimes, the goal of training is the attitude change.

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How to Encourage Effective and Successful On-the-Job Training

Acorn Labs

So just how can you design an effective and successful on-the-job program, and why should you? It’s a specific training initiative that intertwines day-to-day activities with learning new skills , attitudes and competencies. Consider mentoring if…. What is on-the-job training? It takes two forms: structured and unstructured.

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How to Encourage Effective and Successful On-the-Job Training

Acorn Labs

So just how can you design an effective and successful on-the-job program, and why should you? For example, some types of structured on-the-job training include: Mentoring Stretch assignments Capability development plans. It’s common for HR teams or external providers to provide training, given the budget and resources for it.

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Stop talking training and start talking value

CLO Magazine

Until these value propositions are clarified, explicated and agreed to by L&D leaders and their clients and stakeholders, it is impossible to make the right decisions about L&D program priorities, resource investment scope and intensity, needs for manager engagement, demands for evidence of impact and so forth. .

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Why Sales Managers Struggle with Coaching

Knowledge Guru

Many sales managers are dealing with teams that are too large for one individual to provide meaningful coaching and mentoring for all. Self assessment can’t replace coaching and mentoring entirely, but it’s a step in the right direction. Sales training is a big budget, high visibility endeavor in many organizations.

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