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The Unexamined Leadership Program is Not Worth Doing

The Performance Improvement Blog

If you’re not going to evaluate a leadership development program, don’t do the program! End-of-program reactionnaires (aka smile sheets) don’t count as evaluation. Viv Nunn of UK’s Open University, in an article for TrainingZone , explains some of the reasons for evaluating professional development programs.

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Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I started thinking about this during a program on Accelerated Learning at the Minnesota Chapter of the International Society of Performance Improvement (MNISPI). Then I remembered a series of highly successful training programs designed to address the three learning styles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. He said it was great.

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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

We need to let the stakeholders define their expectations for the program. Kirkpatrick says participants need to achieve certain knowledge, skills, and attitudes to get to the desired behavior and results. knowledge, skills, and attitudes?have with a post-test to measure learning for the entire program. It is amazing ho.

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Scaling up L&D in an era of downsizing

CLO Magazine

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year — budget season! As many leaders are in the throes of planning for the start of a new fiscal year, budget requests will inevitably come alongside budget reductions.

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The Blueprint to Build and Scale a High-Impact Customer Education Program

learnWorlds

Today we’re sharing with you all the key takeaways from our recent live webinar “How to create a high-impact customer education program” with Chris LoDolce from SaaS Academy Advisors (and Founding Member of the HubSpot Academy) and Panos Siozos LearnWorlds co-founder and CEO. Customer Education Program. Double the budget.

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Improving Employee Satisfaction Through Learning

Absorb LMS

Organizations have many choices when considering how to invest their human resources budget to engage employees. In addition to an investment that increases the valuable skills in your organization, creating a learning culture also influences worker attitudes. Digital learning pays off.

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Talking to the Business about L&D: How Can Technology Help?

Learning Pool

For most, the budget available will determine what tools and technologies you choose to implement but there are other elements worth considering: Are time constraints a big challenge for your learners? The most common is to improve the effectiveness of the learning programs.