bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

If people don't want to sit through your program on their own accord, then there's something wrong with your program, not your learners. But nooooo, the HR Department takes over and loads the policy word-for-word onto 73 PowerPoint slides, no one in their right minds would want to sit through the oral recitation on it, and so HR.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

How can we write better programs?" -Aim Provide a cliffhanger. I''m in Atlanta for Training 2015. Our friend Cammy Bean so often live blogs other people''s conference sessions, including some of mine, I figured I''d return the favor. Aim for short & snappy -How do people talk to each other? Write like that. Set up a curiosity gap.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 17, 2009

For one thing, the taxonomy invites evaluating everything after the fact, focusing too heavily on end results while gathering little data that will help inform training program improvement efforts. An alternative approach to evaluation was developed Daniel Stufflebeam.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Blog Create a blog post asking learners to provide a 100-word recap of the critical takeaways from the past session. For a management development program, ask each Friday for a quick response to something critical to the course, such as, “List 5 things you caught people doing right this past week.”

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bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2008

While I'm not much of a fan of Level I evaluation, I do think it can shed insight into the effectiveness of our programs if we ask the right questions and pay attention to the answers. Heck, I'd rather access the worst self-paced program than most lecture-based 'webinars' any day!) in 'usefulness'? And what else does it tell us?

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bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2010

In this first instance, performance support could have supplemented, or likely replaced, training simply by programming help screens and prompts. As I left -- after a one-item cash transaction that took maybe 5 minutes -- the cashier said, "They told me that in training but I hadn't done it before. Sorry, but I forgot."

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

My coworkers taught canned programs like CPR and First Aid, and all came from the third-grade-teacher approach to training adults, so weren't much help when I was assigned things like developing supervisory training. The help Training provided in the early days of my career is so significant that I discussed it in my doctoral dissertation.

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