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Are You Reinforcing Learning?

Are you reinforcing the learning you provide for your employees? Simply having employees sit through a workshop isn’t sufficient. The learning starts there but certainly does not end in the classroom.

My clients are increasingly interest in ways to reinforce and continue the learning from the workshops I provide to their employees (whether face-to-face [...]

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Stacking firewood, and learning about learning

It’s late September, and that means it’s time to order up some firewood and begin stacking it for when the cold weather hits. This weekend, I had my wood delivered, and my father happened to be in town as well. He pitched in and helped me stack up my wood into a corral [...]

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Quick Tips: Planning Contingencies for Your Training Programs

The best laid plans for running your training program frequently go astray. Things happen! Participants may arrive late to the workshop due to traffic or miscommunications, activities run longer than planned, discussions are going great and you don’t want to cut them short, brainstorming sessions are productive – no doubt you’ve experienced some of [...]

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Best Practices for Writing Training Objectives

Training objectives describe what the participant in the workshop should be able to do when the training is complete. Training objectives seem to be easy to write, but they take considerable thought and practice to get right each time. For any workshop I’m developing, I don’t write training objectives once and forget about them. [...]

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Performing Needs Assessments

Prior to Developing the Training Content

Too often trainers who develop content for their clients forget about the importance of the needs assessment. A needs assessment helps you to evaluate skills gaps (the needs of those attending the training) so that you can develop training to specifically meet the needs of the participants in [...]