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Skills, Challenges, and Trends in Instructional Design, a free white paper available from The Association for Talent Development (ATD), is a must-read for everyone in the training industry. It’s the result of surveys of 1,381 training professionals that was conducted by researchers from ATD, the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), and…
Did you know that instructor-led classroom training is still the most popular form of training? It’s true, even today when training is increasingly delivered on mobile phones and tablets. According to statistics from the Association for Talent Development, 70% of all training programs in the U.S. were conducted in classrooms in 2014. We are willing…
Everyone who is involved in training should spend time reading the 2015-16 Towards Maturity study. This study has now been conducted for 12 years and its findings, based on surveys of 600 learning professionals and 1,600 trainees, tell us a lot about what is working well in training today and where improvements are needed….
If you are in golf course management, you know that your ultimate success depends on how well you handle all the small details that create a quality golfing experience for your patrons. Do golfers find it easy to book tee times? When they arrive, are your parking areas clean and well maintained? Are golfers greeted…
Fresh ideas from my new book Ingaging Leadership Everyone in your organization needs top communication skills. That’s true for your executives, salespeople, middle managers and front-line employees. It is also especially true for trainers. If they only deliver information without motivating trainees to welcome and use it, the key concepts you want to teach…
You look around your company one day and notice that most of your employees seem to be glued to their smartphones. When they’re not working, they’re shopping, accessing social media, texting with friends, watching videos, reading the news . . . you name it. Your eyes aren’t fooling you. According to the best statistics we…
If you plan your training with the help of experienced training consultants, it is highly unlikely that big problems will arise after your program begins. But even under the best of circumstances, trainees sometimes complain about what it taking place in the classroom. You could have some trainees who just like to gripe – or…
When I wrote my article “Four Ways You’re Paying for Training . . . Whether You Know It or Not,” I knew that it made a lot of sense because it was founded in my own real-world experiences, not on theoretical ideas. In it, I clearly point out ways that training consistently offers a far…
“Most executives, when asked where leadership development happens, think primarily of the classroom. However, when executives are asked what shaped them as leaders, most cite real-world, on-the-job experiences.” – From “Strategy Activation: Develop your leaders in context” by Noah Rabinowitz and Jim Aggen, Korn Ferry Even the most innovative classroom training cannot teach your company’s…
. . . insights from my new book Ingaging Leadership There is so much power in the ongoing, simple process of identifying and monitoring performance indicators in your business. When you identify and measure them before and after training, you enjoy dramatically better results. That process becomes a key part of measuring the ROI that…
