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How Does Your Organization View the Training Group?

How does your organization view the training group?  Have you thought about it?  If not, you should. I have spoken with a number of clients recently who want to elevate their organization’s perception of the training group and are trying to decide how to best go about it.  There are various reasons why they are [...]

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Ensuring Behavior Change Occurs From Your Training Programs

Consistently clients tell me that one of the major disappointments from training programs their employees attend is that the employees come back to the job and do not apply what they have learned in the classroom.  There are many reasons this might occur, including, for example:

The training program did not provide the opportunity to apply [...]

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Using Bloom’s Taxonomy: Teaching Adults to Learn Effectively

Incorporating principles of adult learning theory in any training program is the foundation to ensuring a successful transfer of skills from the training program back to the workplace.  Adult education focuses on the facilitator ensuring the participants are able to achieve sustained behavioral changes to improve in a particular area(s).  For example, enabling adult participants [...]

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Use Storytelling in Learning Programs

 

Tell a story to help them learn

According to Wikipedia, “Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment.”  Stories are shared in every culture to entertain and educate others and have been told for thousands of years.  Grandparents use stories to pass traditions down to their grandchildren. [...]

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Yes! You Must Invest in Your Employees!

 

Invest in your employees and watch your business prosper

A question I often get from clients is:  “When should I invest in my employees?”  My answer: “Always!”  Given today’s economy, the question follows with another, “Will it really be that big an issue if I stop investing in training temporarily?”  My answer: “Yes! A very big [...]