Wednesday, October 14, 2009

CLO Mag support our IMPROV model

For those of you that don't know this, we teach a class titled "From ADDIE to IMPROV" on a regular basis. This class introduces a new approach to designing training that forces the company to use the business performance as a metric for the success of the training rather than level one evaluations or post test scores.

Yes we know this might seem radical to some of you but recently CLO Magazine posted an article that stated comments found in an article published by ROI Institute "Measuring for Success: What CEOs Really Think About Learning Investments," that states

"96 percent of executives want to see the business impact of learning; yet only 8 percent receive it now. Similarly, 74 percent of executives want to see ROI data, but only 4 percent have it now.”

This is exactly what we try to communicate in this class, figure out how someone will actually perform this task on the job, or how can you really measure that they have made a business impact and then design the training from this point backwards. We also demonstrate ways to accelerate the design process which in turn adds the "stickiness" factor in training and really makes it stick.

So if you're interested in seeing this in action be sure to acces our online catalog to see our upcoming class times.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Halloween Fun


This picture was taken from my house this morning, how fitting for the upcoming Halloween season.


With that in mind I thought I would post a link to a video we posted last year to provide you with information on Feeds, and RSS info but a fun way from one of our staff Allison Black.

Click on this link to see "Tales from the Shift"
http://knowledgeshiftinc.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post_09.html

Enjoy!