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The road to hell is paved with metrics.

Markovitz Consulting

Michael Harris and Bill Tayler wrote a terrific article in the new Harvard Business Review on “metrics surrogation”—the tendency for people to mentally replace their business strategy with metrics. Although these metrics are supposed to reflect the company’s progress towards its goals, the focus on metrics can destroy an organization.

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The ROI of eLearning: Measuring the Impact of Online Training on Organizational Success

Clarity Consultants

Without a commitment to continuous training and lifelong learning, ensuring your employees have the information and tools necessary to outperform the competition is challenging. Here’s a look at how online training supports organizational success. First, online training is a convenient approach to continuing education in the workplace.

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How To Sustain Change: Keeping The Momentum Going After The Training Ends

Nash Consulting

Mastering Post-Training Sustainability: Strategies to Maintain Organizational Change By Nash Consulting Successfully planning and implementing robust training in an organization isn’t a small feat. The conclusion of the training can feel like a major victory lap. How does this training connect to the overall change?

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The Leadership Ropes Course: Inspiring the Leap

Makarios Consulting

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Connection.

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The Leadership Ropes Course: Inspiring the Leap

Makarios Consulting

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Connection.

Course 52
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How to Use Corporate Training Metrics to Drive Value

LSA Global

Why Measure Training? Are corporate training metrics simply an exercise in futility that pleases training experts and HR but otherwise has no meaningful value to the business? If you are only measuring training satisfaction, hours, costs, participants, programs etc. PGA courses have been changed.

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Better Performance Improvement Plans

LSA Global

training, coaching, and stretch assignments) Communicate the consequences for failing to improve (e.g., It is difficult for employees to adjust course if they do not know where they are headed. Do your managers know how to set clear goals and success metrics with their teams?

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