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Measuring Project Success: Thoughts for the Training Professional.

Dashe & Thomson

The ISO 9000 compliance team cries “success” if the documentation is complete. This can be especially true in the training field, where the training department’s ideas of success can be vastly different from a harried team manager who wants to minimize lost productivity due to excessive training.

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Rx for SMEs

Dashe & Thomson

SMEs have a ton of work to do and generally keep their heads down until all work is done — defining requirements, documenting processes, testing, collaborating on training content, and training end-users. my spare time I read, play with my kiddos, and train with the Dashe & Thomson running team. All Rights Reserved.

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Rx for SMEs | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

SMEs have a ton of work to do and generally keep their heads down until all work is done — defining requirements, documenting processes, testing, collaborating on training content, and training end-users. my spare time I read, play with my kiddos, and train with the Dashe & Thomson running team. All Rights Reserved.

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Is Your Measuring Stick Allowing You To Manage For The Better.

Dashe & Thomson

We use the results to make changes to the documentation, the delivery, or the staff. If baseball statistics had not developed to accurately evaluate a player or team, the game would have fallen out of favor with adults and returned to its original farm boy state. We use the results to justify pay increases and bonuses.

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Standards organization to release metrics guidelines for L&D

CLO Magazine

Inside the document The recommended metrics will have definitions, examples and formulas for how to use them. The broader framework of classifying the metrics is inspired by the Talent Development Reporting Principles, an industry-based initiative launched in 2010. In chemistry, elements are organized by a periodic table.

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My Favorite Things: Tools and Tips to Facilitate Content.

Dashe & Thomson

In one click you can publish your diagram as a web page and send a simple link to your team. There are a couple significant advantages when compared to Gliffy: 1) LucidChart supports real-time collaboration so multiple users can be editing a document simultaneously 2) LucidChart is the only web-based diagramming tool to offer Visio import.

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My Favorite Things: Tools and Tips to Facilitate Content Development

Dashe & Thomson

In one click you can publish your diagram as a web page and send a simple link to your team. There are a couple significant advantages when compared to Gliffy: 1) LucidChart supports real-time collaboration so multiple users can be editing a document simultaneously 2) LucidChart is the only web-based diagramming tool to offer Visio import.