The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 23, 2011

At the end of Dan McCarthy’s blog post , “How to Evaluate a Training Program”, in which he explains his pre-post, survey approach to applying the Kirkpatrick four levels of training evaluation , he asks: Has anyone used a system like this, or something better? Third , it shouldn’t be a decision to evaluate or not to evaluate.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 20, 2014

Over the past 50 years, he was one of the most influential thought-leaders in the area of evaluation of employee training. They know they can evaluate reaction to training, learning from training, behavior change in the workplace, and results for the organization. Kirkpatrick died. Kirkpatrick'

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

The topics ranged from changing organizational culture to evaluating training programs to making managers responsible for employee learning to creating a learning culture. People act on the basis of tacit knowledge but they are often not aware of how daily behavior is shaped by this knowledge.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

One of many methods of organizational learning is a “community of practice”. This is a term coined by Etienne Wenger to describe “…groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” We said that evaluation of learning is: Measuring business outcomes.

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Matrix

JUNE 20, 2019

Yet it is precisely because everything is happening so fast that it’s increasingly difficult to measure the impact of learning within the organization. All the stakeholders declare that they understand the importance of organizational learning and consider it a profitable investment but they also feel it’s difficult to weigh the results.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 1, 2012

She helped get the program started and led the evaluation effort. I would add that the process of asking questions about something (which is what we do in evaluation work) brings attention to the program and it causes stakeholders to reflect on the program’s design and value. employee training programs).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

An organization has to do something with those metrics in order to “get done” what needs to get done, i.e., organizational learning, performance improvement, and change. I suspect that the post is interesting to readers because of the popular axiom, not because of the content of the post.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 19, 2010

Every day it seems, a new measure of employee attitudes and behavior is reported in the press. I think we rely too much on responses to a few survey questions and on counts of a small number of isolated behaviors. Brinkerhoff has developed a method that uses success stories to evaluate the impact of training and development programs.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

What''s important is what we do with that data to change behavior of individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. It continues with learning from the analysis (knowledge) followed by generating the insights and wisdom needed to sustain change. Evaluation Leadership Organizational Learning Aetna Big Data knowledge wisdom'

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TalentLMS

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The organizational learning needs are determined through organizational strategic goals and KPIs. The learner-needs are determined through surveys and poll systems set up in the learning management system. Both organizational and learner needs are aligned to develop responsive training materials.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2017

Part of the learning leader’s job is to develop organizational learning strategies. For one thing, organizations aren’t reviewing their learning and development strategies very often. Learning resources include: Skilled trainers: Each trainer may have specialized competencies or areas of expertise.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 6, 2011

We learn more from studying successes than we do from studying failure. I have become convinced of this from my experience evaluating many change interventions in many different types of organizations. People can explain why they changed their behavior much more readily than why they didn’t change.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Performance measurement – learning from measures of performance such as sales figures, production numbers, and customer service feedback. Department meetings – often a lost opportunity for learning, these gatherings can be designed so that participants learn about processes such as planning, project management, innovation, and evaluation.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 3, 2018

Creating and maintaining a harassment-free work culture is not easy given that the default behavior in most organizations is to marginalize and exclude women from power and from the central decision-making processes of the business. Closing the Skills Gap by Improving Corporate Culture – July 20, 2017.

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Learnnovators

MAY 17, 2022

When is the last time that we in L&D stepped in to see how the debriefing of experiences happens, and how to evaluate it? The employee can simply coast through an experience, assuming that somewhere some learning will magically have happened, and we’re happy to share that assumption because it exonerates us from having to do anything.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Twelve of these common barriers are: Program focus – new programs and services are evaluated in isolation rather than as interdependent parts of the whole organization, e.g., a diversity workshop is evaluated by the participants at the end of the workshop, not by everyone in the organization weeks and months after the workshop.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

At the risk of putting many of my consultant friends out of work, I recommend that all managers read this list and re-evaluate the underlying beliefs and assumptions represented by each of these actions in their own organizations. Ryan's list has: Forced Ranking. Front-Loaded Recruiting Systems. Overdone Policy Manuals.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Organizational evaluation and performance improvement are essentially about asking the right questions. If you want employees to be customer-focused, values-based, data-driven, innovative, and team-oriented, then they need learning interventions that will help them develop these strategic behaviors.

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Matrix

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The researchers at Centre for Learning Impact have spent the last decade perfecting a new methodology aimed at providing organizations with “the expertise, models and tools to evaluate training effectiveness and drive performance and bottom line results.”. Read more: Measuring training effectiveness — the Kirkpatrick model.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

These are behaviors of a learning culture. Employee learning requires feedback, reflection, and practice. Experiences, whether formal, informal, social, or mobile, do not result in learning unless these other elements are present. image from Pixabay ].

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 26, 2015

These are the true signs of a learning organization. Existing reward systems must be re-evaluated as they may be negating opportunities for collaboration and the results that learning in a collaborative system can produce. When learning begins, ideas emerge. People gain productivity and quality through collaboration.

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Matrix

AUGUST 22, 2019

Furthermore, formal learning comes with a much-coveted recognition – people still frame and put up diplomas in their offices and the younger crowd proudly displays badges on digital profiles. Probably the preferred quality (for organizational decision makers) is that informal learning implies almost no costs at all.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

In evaluating the effectiveness of financial management training, managers might look at expense-revenue ratios. In evaluating leadership training managers might look at the results of employee engagement surveys. What did they learn from the financial management program and how did they apply that learning?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The effect is limited when performance reviews are reduced to an annual exchange of evaluation forms between employee and supervisor. Employees are more likely to respect the sender, hear the message, and change behavior when the encounter between these collaborators is in-person and over a dedicated and sufficient amount of time.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2016

Therefore, the exercise facilitates individuals’ identification, evaluation, and their efforts to make meaning of critical life events that produce insights, reconstruct professional values, and inform future actions. The “why” of my beliefs and behavior.). What are three things about our organization that are important to us?

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

An absence of clear and specific organizational goals and how organizational learning can enable those goals can be a barrier to fostering an organizational culture of learning. All learning programs must be closely tied to business goals, or they are not worth implementing. Lack of Incentive to Change.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

An absence of clear and specific organizational goals and how organizational learning can enable those goals can be a barrier to fostering an organizational culture of learning. All learning programs must be closely tied to business goals, or they are not worth implementing. Lack of Incentive to Change.

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WalkMe Training Station

APRIL 24, 2016

Organizational Learning. This all begins with organizational learning, which refers not only to the acquisition of new knowledge, but also an increase in the ability to apply new knowledge to improve performance. The Learning Organization. Pillars of a Learning Organization.

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PDG

JULY 26, 2021

Take the time to objectively evaluate your salespeople in the field and on the phone, then document your observations. Evaluate results and adjust the development plan. When time is of the essence, it can be easier to fall back on familiar thoughts, people, and behavior patterns. This research forms the basis of your coaching.

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Litmos

APRIL 30, 2019

In Implementing E-Learning , Jay Cross and Lance Dublin suggested that implementing eLearning was an organizational change. And, it turns out, this is true for training and likely all organizational learning interventions. Also, evaluating the progress and deciding whether it’s working or needs tuning.

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Mike Taylor

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Last Week’s Most Clicked 8 Interactive Presentation Ideas to Engage Your Audience in 2024 News & Notes Leveraging behavioral science to maximize learning engagement The article from Training Journal looks into the application of behavioral science principles to enhance learning and development (L&D) effectiveness in organizations.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

A learning culture is an organizational culture in which beliefs, values, and artifacts support employee learning, In terms of beliefs, research is showing us that what people believe about the potential of themselves and others has a profound impact on organizations.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 6, 2017

The Knowledge Economy needs people who are self-directed learners, who know how to get the information and skills they need when and where they need them, who can think critically in terms of evaluating the accuracy and usefulness of this information, and who can learn from both successes and failures. It’s learning ability.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 1, 2018

Usage of gamification strategies for corporate training, particularly for serious learning to meet specific learning outcomes, is more than a buzz today. Take a look at the following stats: Worldwide revenues for game-based learning products reached $2.6 This is where gamification for learning fits in.

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TalentLMS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Learning books (4). Learning technology books (2). Evaluation & Feedback books (4). Learning & business strategy books (4). Learning and Development Culture books (5). The crisply written Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice covers all the fundamentals. Evaluation & Feedback books.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The learning cognoscenti know there are no shortcuts to effective learning. If sales managers want their inside sales team to conduct powerful discovery, they’ve got to teach an approach, listen to tapes, let reps self-evaluate, give feedback, listen to more tapes, give more feedback, and so on.

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Talented Learning

AUGUST 29, 2018

Today we see companies of all sizes delivering customized educational programs to employees as well as external audiences – all from the same scalable learning platform. 2) How is innovation moving learning systems forward? The more solutions I evaluate, the more difficult it is to process it all. Who is your audience?

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