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Why So Many Training Metrics Feel Like “Vibes” (opens the original)
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There is a familiar moment in Learning and Development.A training program ends. Someone asks how it went.The trainer pulls up the numbers.“We had 94 percent attendance.”“Everyone completed the course.”“The average evaluation score was 4.7 out of 5.”“People really liked it.”Those numbers may all be accurate.But there is still a question hanging in the air:Did the training actually work?And very often, none of those numbers can answer it.That is why so much training measurement can feel like vibes
Activity Tuesday: What Experience Taught Me (opens the original)
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Experienced participants can decide pretty quickly that a training isn’t for them.Sometimes all it takes is an opener that assumes everyone in the room is starting from zero.What Experience Taught Me takes the opposite approach.Participants begin with one simple question:What’s one thing experience has taught you about this topic that you wish you’d known when you started?They reflect on their own experience, compare lessons with another participant, and identify an insight worth carrying into t
Learning Leaders Digest #122 (opens the original)
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Welcome back, Learning Leaders.Before we get into this week’s Digest, I want to ask you something: What is the biggest problem you’re dealing with at work right now? It might be a training problem, a leadership problem, a difficult stakeholder, trouble getting people engaged, difficulty proving results, figuring out how to use AI, burnout, or something completely different.Just reply to this email and tell me what’s going on.Readers do it all the time, and I really do love getting those messages
Throwback Thursday: We All Can Make a Difference, But... (opens the original)
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This was originally published in Bob Pike’s Creative Training Techniques Newsletter in September 2014.We all can make a difference, but we do not succeed by ourselves. Many people, in the background, in their own ways, are a part of why.The National Speakers Association presented its own version of the Oscars at its San Diego, CA Convention this past July. The “Oscars” are inductees into the Council of Peers Award of Excellence Speakers Hall of Fame.Prior to that evening, 192 people had been ind
The Course They Requested Is Not Always the Solution (opens the original)
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Training requests usually arrive with the answer already attached.“We need a communication course.”“Our managers need accountability training.”“Sales needs another product workshop.”The request may be reasonable. It may even sound obvious.But before we start building slides, writing objectives, or scheduling a session, there is a question we should ask:Is training actually the thing that will solve this problem?That sounds simple, but it is one of the most important questions a trainer can learn
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