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Avoiding the Curse of the Consultant

CLO Magazine

Consulting has become an attractive occupation and internal consultants have proliferated just about everywhere. Much of HR is now performed by HR consultants. Performance consultants are now permeating learning and development. External consulting continues to grow, too. External consulting continues to grow, too.

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Future-focused training: Are you committing learning malpractice?

CLO Magazine

Many of us struggle today to have productive performance consulting discussions with our stakeholders about their current performance needs. Consequently, many L&D practitioners instead rely on survey results about future skills and recommendations by consultants and vendors. You have seen these lists.

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Free learning & development webinars for April 2023

Limestone Learning

Join GP Strategies’ Learning Experience Consultants, Laura Barrett and Craig Stokes, as they discuss how they adopted an event’s mindset in the design and delivery of live learning and share some of the exciting work they’ve been doing in this space. PT: Beautiful Typography for Presentations A font can make or break your presentation.

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Free learning & development webinars for March 2024

Limestone Learning

This webinar will draw on insights from Ryan Lufkin, VP of Global Academic Strategy at Instructure, and Christopher Phillips, Digital Accessibility Coordinator at Utah State University, to help you design your accessible learning adventures. Topics covered: Creating a presentation from scratch or from a document. You had me at hello.

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Free learning & development webinars for April 2024

Limestone Learning

This presentation explores how small changes can have a profound impact on an organization’s people, competitiveness and ability to adapt. Phillips, Ph.D., Even worse, complexity dampens morale and creates feelings of futility. Lisa offers techniques used by the nimblest of companies to save time, kill rules and simplify everything.

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5 More Great Books for Your Learning & Development Bookshelf

Mike Taylor

Performance Consulting: A Strategic Process to Improve, Measure, and Sustain Organizational Results. Dana Gaines Robinson, James Robinson, Jack Phillips Partricia Phillips & Dick Handshaw. This is a visual representation of their 7 step model shown below and detailed here. Find it in a library | Amazon.

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Weighing the Options: Different Schools of Thought

CLO Magazine

Kirkpatrick is now retired and the honorary chairman of Kirkpatrick Partners LLC, a learning and evaluation consultancy led by his son, James, and his daughter-in-law, Wendy. James Kirkpatrick, a senior consultant at Kirkpatrick Partners, attributed this to learning leaders’ comfort level. Suppose that lifetime value is $10,000.