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Measuring the impact and ROI of virtual learning

CLO Magazine

Studies show that many virtual learning programs break down when measured at the application level (participants not using what they learn) and impact level (the business impact connected to application). To secure the support and funding that virtual learning needs, the programs must deliver business results. Why does this happen?

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Virtual learning after the pandemic

CLO Magazine

They could run all the learning programs without the travel and facilitator costs. At least for most programs, there was no apparent business connection. It explains why so much of learning is viewed as a necessary evil and not a business driver. Multitasking. We know from the research that multitasking inhibits learning.

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Designing virtual learning for application and impact: the missing ingredient

CLO Magazine

Participants react to the program, learn the program’s skills and knowledge, apply the skills and knowledge in their work setting, and have a corresponding impact, which is a business measure. When the portion of the impact connected to the program is converted to money and compared with the program’s cost, a financial ROI is calculated.

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Information Overload: The Plague of Learning and Development

CLO Magazine

To keep up with customers, many business leaders have recognized that having great products isn’t enough. In interviews conducted with CEOs and other business leaders, my team and I asked the question, “What do you think you get from the money you spend on your support? Or on the people who create learning for your employees?”

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Don’t Try to Do So Many Things At Once

CLO Magazine

Employee attempts to multitask are putting a serious damper on their performance. Digital Third Coast Content Manager Andy Kerns defined multitasking as the act of switching back and forth between multiple tasks — different from what many people believe the behavior to be: literally completing multiple tasks on a to-do list simultaneously.

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Your leaders’ brains were not made for this moment

CLO Magazine

These feelings lead to poor physical and mental health, unsustainable health care costs and reduced performance potential across our workforces. Our brains are not equipped for multitasking, and our working memory capacities (and subsequent situational coping capacities) are exhausted by constant communication.

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Let’s Focus a Little Better

CLO Magazine

As a millennial, I’ve been conditioned to multitask, and as glorious as that’s been to list on cover letters in the past, it is in fact, not the business for me or anyone really. Minimizing multitasking, meditating and making to-do lists are also some great places to start and behaviors to encourage among employees.