Measurement
The overall performance of a business can be measured in a number of ways. Its success can be evaluated based on the organization’s training and learning programs, and its ability to adapt to change.
6 steps to lead a successful change management initiative
Change can be a scary word. Here’s how to help your program participants navigate change with lasting results.
Meaningful training analytics: 1+2 ≠ 4
According to The Kirkpatrick Model, Level 3: Behavior is the degree to which participants apply what they learned during training when they are back on the job. The prevailing belief that a Level 3 plan for post-training support and accountability is difficult, expensive and out of training’s purview is untrue. Here are the deceptively simple steps to create learning experiences with true value.
Proving the value of leadership development
When it comes to delivering and measuring business results from your leadership development programs, hope is not a strategy, luck is not a factor, and doing nothing is not an option.
What would happen if we eliminated the formal L&D department?
It’s a chilling question. But it stimulates some reflection: What are we doing to convince executives that L&D is contributing to the organization’s success — not just in a logical or intuitive way, but with actual data from trusted resources?
Measuring the impact and ROI of virtual learning
To secure the support and funding that virtual learning needs, programs must deliver business results. Here are 7 steps to design virtual learning to deliver a positive ROI.
Proving the impact of your learning initiatives
How do we evaluate the impact of a learning program in a way that isolates its effect on performance from other confounding factors? In short, how do we uncover the truth?
3 reasons external benchmarking is bad for corporate learning
By benchmarking learning, we are creating an artificial expectation that all learning should look the same and that learning departments should operate in the same ways. This is a hugely problematic assumption.
Getting creative with learning ROI measurement
Many variables can influence the results of development efforts, and isolating the effects of training among everything else that is constantly happening in an organization is difficult. We therefore need to be creative when building these measures and integrating them into our learning functions.
Creating an environment for effective learning measurement
If we truly embrace our people as our most valuable corporate asset, invest in them as we would to maintain and grow physical assets, and surround them with opportunities to acquire new skills that directly align with corporate goals, the return on learning investment will naturally find its place among our top business KPIs.
Cloudy with a chance of budget approval
Here are 10 straightforward steps to complete an ROI forecast to build a better business case for an unanticipated learning program.
It’s time to update your evaluation strategy
To survive and even thrive in the current economic downturn requires measuring the impact and ROI of your major programs to ensure these programs deliver the business results that executives and sponsors want and need. Here are 10 actions to take now.
Leadership development should begin with “why” — and that’s usually not behavior change
Application without impact is just being busy.
Leadership development is creating a dilemma
Hint: It needs a new definition of success.
Shattering the way L&D thinks about measurement
One model cannot solve the industry’s measurement problem. Instead, each L&D team must ask their own questions, apply proven, data-rich principles and develop their own measurement strategy.
3 ways learning has become core to the new world of work
LinkedIn Learning surveyed 900 L&D professionals and 3,000 learners. Here are the most noteworthy findings.