Training: An Opportunity to Communicate Organizational Values

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Swati Karve

Failure to be ethical in leadership and management leads to immense losses at both the personal and corporate levels. That makes organizational values and ethics important for all stakeholders in the business, including employees, shareholders, and the general public. More »

Practical Advice for Bringing Professional Continuing Education Online

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Brian Giuffrida

The challenge to creating an online continuing education program is how to move education content in a way that provides the best possible learning experience for the student, and the easiest all around management experience for the organization providing the content. T... More »

Assessing Competencies Starts With a Measurable Competency Model

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William J. Rothwell

To assess competencies, learning and performance professionals, not just performance professionals, must work with a competency model that is measurable. A measurable competency model identifies the competencies of the position or job, as well as the behavioral indicato... More »

From Making It Stick to Making It Last: How to Keep ROI and Results-Based Training Efforts on Track

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Holly Burkett

Keeping a results-based evaluation and return-on-investment process on track is one of biggest implementation challenges for evaluation professionals. In many ways, its equivalent to training for a marathon. You start small with manageable goals, stretch your muscles, c... More »

Draw Out the Best from Each Participant

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Brownell Landrum

In Latin educare to educate means to draw out. But it seems as if education and training are often more focused on a top-down teaching approach, where information is disseminated, than a true drawing-out process in which participants discover the learning through a proc... More »