bozarthzone

JUNE 14, 2016

While there are individual positive deviants who work alone, a key factor is working with the community to surface, spread, and sustain solutions rather than try to force outside-in answers—as is so often the case with training. Prior attempts to implement solutions—such as supplemental feeding programs—did not succeed for long.

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Behavior Community Emergent Problem 45

bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For instance, "Diversity", "Harassment", and "Ethics" can be really interesting, engaging training topics if handled by good designers and facilitators. makes the training mandatory. 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.

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Harassment Training Diversity Training Communities of Practice Community 77

bozarthzone

JANUARY 17, 2009

While the Kirkpatrick taxonomy is something of a sacred cow in training circles—and much credit goes to Donald Kirkpatrick for being the first to attempt to apply intentional evaluation to workplace training efforts—it is not the only approach.

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Kirkpatrick Alternatives Taxonomy Evalution 72

bozarthzone

AUGUST 13, 2009

The session, hosted by the Training Magazine Network , came down to this: Plenty of horrible e-learning has been created with expensive tools. I'll be offering the extended version of the"Better than Bullet Points" program for Training Live + Online Events beginning on September 9.

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Simulations PowerPoint Tutorial Articulate 53

bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2010

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. In this first instance, performance support could have supplemented, or likely replaced, training simply by programming help screens and prompts. Sorry, but I forgot."

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Instructional Design ADDIE Server Performance Support 71

bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Stop 2 offered comments from Karl Kapp's Kapp Notes on the variety of activities available to workplace training practitioners wanting to extend and enhance their practice with social media tools. Stop 3 was a guest post for Yammer with a discussion of using these tools for social learning in the enterprise. Stay tuned for more!

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Blogging Elluminate Social Media Yammer 69

bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

I'm working on a new leadership training program and this morning was looking through some books of training games. Here is something that caught me short: "Use this activity to have a pleasant way to reprimand unpleasant behavior." And, "Don't give up when the participant hesitates to do an activity."

Behavior 40

Behavior Leadership Games Activities 40

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. I'm dealing with metrics-fans right now who want to ask smile-sheet questions like, "On a scale of 1 to 6, did you find the training useful?

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Evalution Metrics Synchronous Lecture 40

bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2016

There were research-based explanations from Richard Mayer that helped me articulate—finally—why we didn’t want to narrate every word in every online learning program.

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Journal Communities of Practice Articulate Community 40

bozarthzone

MARCH 16, 2009

My dissertation research focused broadly on communities of practice (CoPs), and narrowly on a single community comprised of workplace trainers who gathered voluntarily to “stamp out bad training”. While it was beyond the scope of my study, the matter came up enough for me to start asking, “When did you become passionate about training?”

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Communities of Practice Expertise Community Roles 40