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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

My thinking about training evaluation was turned on its head by a presentation at the February 2011 MNISPI meeting by Beth McGoldrick of Ameriprise’s RiverSource University. She combined Michael Scriven’s Key Evaluation Checklist with Donald Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Learning Evaluation and Robert Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method.

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It’s time to update your evaluation strategy

CLO Magazine

Projects involving culture, change management, leadership, communications, empowerment, customer service and engagement may be at risk because their values are not clear to executives and the owners of those projects may have not taken the steps to show the business value very clearly. Be proactive and tackle the evaluation challenge.

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Evaluating Training Through Stories

The Performance Improvement Blog

She is quoted In an interview for a local magazine: "We call it ‘bottom line training,’ Bayless explains, “because we know that the purpose of Zingerman’s businesses isn’t to train staff. Stories are the way we communicate with ourselves. For The University of Michigan, one of their bottom lines is education; that’s why they exist.

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5 ways to improve remote performance evaluations

CLO Magazine

Here are five ways to improve remote employee evaluations. Communicating with understanding lets employees know you care about their overall well-being and don’t view them as a cog in a machine. While evaluating an employee’s past performance is important, it shouldn’t be the sole focus of your conversation. Check in more often.

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Workplace Trends from 2004…Still Trending

Integrated Learnings

I cleaned my bookshelf the other day, which included moving out stacks of old magazines. One dusty cover that caught my eye was the January 2004 issue of Training + Development Magazine from ASTD, with this headline: 8 Trends You Need to Know NOW. By Shelley A. I immediately thought, “I wonder if those trends are still relevant.”.

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Canaries in the Coal Mine: Instructional Design in the Age of AI

Learningtogo

In fact, Fortune Magazine reports that about 4,000 technology jobs – including many in our profession – were replaced by AI alternatives in June alone. We can also continue to develop those skills that are not easily automated by AI, such as designing engaging learning experiences and evaluating the effectiveness of training.

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Banishing Evaluation Fears

CLO Magazine

Eighty percent of training professionals believe that evaluating training results is important to their organization, according to the Association for Talent Development’s 2016 research report “Evaluating Learning: Getting to Measurements That Matter.” Lack of discipline in evaluation is most often seen in corporations.