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Informal Learning comes from … whom?
Where do you fall? The 90:9:1 rule suggests that only one in a hundred will start up a blog, create a new thread on a forum or put a video on YouTube. We’re not going to see people do things like this...
View ArticleFormalize Informal Training in Your Organization
About 80% of the training that occurs in the workplace doesn’t occur in a formal training program. About 80% of the training that occurs is just one person assisting another in an informal way. You...
View ArticleBring Your Wii to Work!
Too often, e-learning modules end up being glorified power point presentations. The learner reads through the information in a linear, beginning-to-end format, and is tested for knowledge retention at...
View ArticleKeep It Suitably Simple
While there is still a need for formally-packaged courses, these are for special occasions, when we or our employers require some formal record of achievement (or at least of participation). In the...
View ArticleSurely They Don’t Mean the Company Party!
The most time-wasting learning and development activity reported by employees is…. Teambuilding Activities; according to the 2011 National Learning and Development Index conducted by the Australian...
View Article5 Questions to Ask a Stakeholder Before Designing Training
Performance problems can be caused by a myriad of things; perhaps your organization has undergone a downsizing, or perhaps a department is understaffed or their equipment is unreliable. Unfortunately...
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Training Triage – Pick One
One of the things The Training Doctor specializes in is TRAINING TRIAGE - that is – why doesn’t training work? Throughout our 20+ years in business, we’ve discovered the answers to this question. This...
View ArticleHey, Big Spender….
Average spending on employee development in the US was $800 per learner, in 2011, according to Bersin & Associates.
View ArticleAccessing Employee Training through your local College or University
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of an interview published in December 2012. Miner: Another way that you can provide employee training and not do it yourself is to take advantage of colleges,...
View ArticleBasic Rules of Test Creation
With the recent popularity of LMS systems that call for testing and tracking of student results, our participants are starting to see a lot of quizzes, assessments, and certifications that are designed...
View ArticleCasino Revenue Earmarked for Workforce Training
Beginning in January, manufacturing businesses in the state of Ohio are able to apply for reimbursement for incumbent worker training. This funding is linked to casino revenue / profits which began to...
View ArticleClassroom Design and Its Impact on Achievement
An interesting study was done recently, in England, which studied the impact that classroom design has on student achievement. The study found that classroom design can impact student performance by...
View ArticleTraining Magazine’s State of the Industry Report says…
According to Training Magazine’s State of the Industry Report for 2012, 70% of responding organizations indicated they used a virtual delivery method of some sort (virtual classroom, webinar, video)...
View ArticleTraining Challenge: Dispersed Workforce
In a poll of learning professionals conducted by ON24 earlier this year, respondents said their biggest training challenge is training an increasingly dispersed workforce (33.3%).
View ArticleTraining Triage: Brain Dumps
One of the things The Training Doctor specializes in is Training Triage – that is - why doesn’t this training work? Throughout our 20+ years in business, we’ve discovered the answers to this question....
View ArticleInterview with an Expert: Susan Boyd
How to Make Learning Stick in Online Courses T/D: Susan, why is there the perception that e-learning doesn’t stick and what can we do about it? Boyd: I think there are a variety of challenges that can...
View ArticleThree Pillars of Successful Virtual Learning
We recently attended a “webinar” presented by Chip Paucek of 2U on The Future of Virtual Learning. Chip works in higher ed but he said things that will be familiar to us, in training. He mentioned...
View ArticleUse your Network to Create + Supply Employee Training
Too often we isolate ourselves and think that we are the only organization that has a particular problem; for instance, quality control issues or the need for sales training on a particular piece of...
View ArticleTraining the “General Population” Ensures a Pipeline of Capable Workers
The Cisco Networking Academy has an interesting take on how to ensure the company has ready and able IT pros in the future. Rather than provide training just for their current employees – they provide...
View ArticleTraining Triage: Link Learning to Something People Already Know
One of the things The Training Doctor specializes in is Training Triage – that is - why doesn’t this training work? Throughout our 20+ years in business, we’ve discovered the answers to this question....
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