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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 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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What Does an Instructional Designer Do?

Clarity Consultants

Instructional designers are professionals who focus on creating and delivering learning products, such as company training and coursework for educational institutions. As mentioned above, instructional designers focus more on the mechanical aspects of designing courses or modules. What Does an Instructional Designer Do?

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Return on Expectations vs. Return on Investment

Clarity Consultants

As a metric for learning and development programs, Return on Expectations measures how successfully a training program meets its objectives, typically based on changes in employee motivation and performance after completing a course.

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Learning and Applying Should Be in Propinquity

Alan Weiss

People are placed in courses (or the grammatically horrendous “trainings”) and are expected to store the information in their cheeks like chipmunks until such time as it’s needed—and by which time they will have forgotten it. This is why external training companies—venders—don’t like metrics.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images. Medicine involves leadership.