Performance Learning Productivity

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

Performance Learning Productivity

Effective Metrics for Learning and Development I wonder what Shaw would think if he saw the way learning and development is predominantly measured in organisations today. These time-honoured metrics developed for an industrial age are not the answer. A parallel path to learning metrics.

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Workplace Learning: Adding, Embedding & Extracting

Performance Learning Productivity

There is also often an attempt to apply learning metrics (rather than performance metrics) to the outcomes. The two activities are viewed as separate. That is not where the real strength of workplace learning lies.

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Re-thinking Workplace Learning: extracting rather than adding

Performance Learning Productivity

The focus can no longer be on learning and learning metrics, but on performance and performance metrics. So traditional attempts to ‘isolate’ the impact of learning becomes very difficult and we need to adopt more holistic types of analysis to determine what works and what doesn’t. And it changes viable measurement approaches as well.

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Being Bold and Imagining the Different

Performance Learning Productivity

If we spend our time inventing ‘learning metrics’, rather than simply working with our clients and stakeholders to measure what matters to them, we will never understand whether our solutions are making a difference. If we separate learning from the work, and thus remove most of the context, we are likely to produce sub-optimal solutions.