Training and Development
Training in 2012: What Is on Learners’ Wish Lists?
As 2011 comes to a close, I’ve been evaluating a lot of new trends in learning and development and projections for 2012. Accelerated Business Results (ABR) has had the privilege of working with several world class organizations and we get many opportunities to test new theories as we help to develop their training solutions. In fact, this is the time of year when we often meet with our key clients to map out their training strategies for the coming year, and we’re fortunate to gain access to their invaluable customer insights. Engaging in these conversations gives us a chance to really understand what they’re experiencing in their workforce and to determine the practical training solutions that will address their needs.
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iPad E-Learning: Choosing the Right Platform
At Accelerated Business Results (ABR), we talk to a lot of customers about their e-learning needs, and one of the trends that has emerged this year is a sharp increase in the number of customers who have questions about deploying training on tablet PCs, specifically Apple’s iPad. In this post, I will discuss the pros and cons of a few possible solutions for iPad learning.
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Is Instructional Design Dead?
I recently attended a webinar hosted by Elliott Masie, an internationally recognized futurist, analyst, and researcher on topics such as workforce learning, business collaboration, and emerging technologies. At this webinar, he spoke about challenges and learning trends for 2012. One of the questions he posed on the webinar was, “Is instructional design dead?” Why would he ask this question? But after I continued to listen, I realized that he wasn’t actually saying the field of instructional design is dead; he was suggesting that the field must evolve to be more agile and therefore more effective.
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I Don’t Care If Training’s Relevant to the Job! So What?
I nearly fell off my chair at a recent meeting when a training officer at a large organization told me he didn’t care whether training was relevant to employees’ jobs! If that’s true, what’s the point? Well-developed training evaluation models include a focus on the business impact or outcome of training. If organizations are effectively spending their training dollars, they will have an impact on outcomes valued by the organization. Aligning training with organizational goals and writing objectives with clearly defined metrics helps illustrate how training is relevant to the job and thus the organization’s goals.
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Making Learning Programs Stick Like Glue
It’s all too common—you develop (or buy) a killer training program with solid learning objectives, a highly creative design, and multiple interactive activities to practice new skills. You feel certain that it will be successful. People even attend and give it glowing reviews on the evaluation forms. But then the unthinkable happens… when people go back to their jobs, they don’t use the skills taught in the learning program.
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Not ANOTHER Training Session!
When you let your employees know that they will be attending a training session, what do you think their reaction is? Do they look forward to an opportunity to refine their skills and increase their knowledge? Or do they dread the thought of “wasting” a morning or a day in a boring lecture? Here are some ways to encourage employees to view training as the quality investment of time (and resources) that you intend it to be.
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Effective Training: More Than an Inside Job
Many companies are trying their best to consolidate and streamline departments in this tough economy. While careful evaluation in search of ways to tighten the corporate belt makes good business sense, companies should proceed with caution. Slashing the budget for critical programs like training might make sense in the short term, but could end up damaging a company’s competitive edge in the end.
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SharePoint 2010 and Corporate Training
At ABR we are fortunate to have the opportunity to work with a nice selection of companies and their training departments. One of the issues that we’ve seen repeatedly in these departments is a need for secure online learning communities and resource sites.
Excellence: When Design Meets Execution!
Don’t you love it when a plan comes together? Planning can often be a time-consuming and complicated process, so it’s very rewarding when everything falls into place after putting in so much effort. I recently had the opportunity to be a part of great plan execution.
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