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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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Design - Knowing Doing Gap - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Seeing The Invisible: How To Identify Early Indicators Of Gaps In Instructional Design And Training Effectiveness. What do online instructors have to know about H1N1? Top five tips for creating great systems training - Spicy Learning , September 15, 2009. Knowing Doing Gap (7).

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Supercharge your learning programs with follow-up coaching

CLO Magazine

The newly trained people didn’t really have time to figure out why, so they would write off the learning and go back to their old, not-so-great way of doing things. Bridging the knowing-doing gap. We recommend enrolling participants into a minimum of three coaching sessions after a training or workshop.

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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. In other words, the more complicated the sales process becomes, the less likely it is that reps will be able to sell effectively. First, it creates more work.

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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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A Framework For Content Curation

Learnnovators

I should know: I’ve used them as a student, I’ve seen my peers create them, and I’ve created them myself. Surely we can put more design into our curation efforts so that the fruits of our labour are more efficient, meaningful, and effective…? Consider the trusty instructional design heuristic of Tell Me, Show Me, Let Me, Test Me.

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