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By Dr. Jim Kirkpatrick Among the challenges we are now facing because of a virus, one that troubles me the most is this. We are rapidly speeding away from our past. Even…

Suddenly, learning has become REALLY informal. Many of us are working from home and just doing what we can to keep everything covered (literally and figuratively). There are still training…

I Have Lost My Job | I Am Working, but Making Less Income I Am Working More Than Ever! | I Am Working, but I Don’t Have a Lot to Do We are all in…

To stay relevant in the healthcare learning community, we need to prove our value by changing behavior. And we can’t know if we’re changing behavior without measuring it. Although healthcare…

The Oxford dictionary defines training as the “action of teaching a person or animal a particular skill or type of behavior.” Unfortunately, this definition does not point to the organizational…

Let’s face it: many of us obtain the knowledge and data we require to complete our work by using the internet. Especially under current shelter-at-home orders, and the reality that…

As we try to come to terms with the ghastly implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, how we measure the performance of our organizations has never been more important. I wanted…

This time of recommended social distancing has me realizing that training and the business are socially distanced almost every day. So, why are people feeling so off balance due to…

Just because you are working from home doesn’t mean you are limited in your resources. Here is how to access over 100 free items virtually, or attend upcoming live-online events.…

Getting to Kirkpatrick Level 3 is not as difficult, expensive or time-consuming as some people think. Even if you are struggling to get buy-in and participation from stakeholders, here are a…

Looking for some positive news? Let’s make our own! Since so many of us cannot travel right now and are faced with cancelled programs, we designed a brand new program that…

Well, here I am again. Time to ante up and let you know how I am doing on my goals for my ReNEWal Year initiative that I announced in January. To…

2020 in 20/20 – Yes! I Have Time For ThatBy Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick Time. It’s one of the most precious commodities we have, and seemingly, there is never enough of it.…

When companies invest in training, they expect results. In this Coaching for Leaders podcast episode, host Dave Stachowiak interviews Jim Kirkpatrick, creator of the New World Kirkpatrick Model, to discuss…

Learning and performance professionals the world over are receiving the same mandate: show the organizational value of your efforts. Well-intentioned individuals provide learning data and then eagerly rush in to…

According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), only 22 percent of organizations are actively trying to improve how they gather and analyze data around workplace learning, despite…

My 2018 New Year’s message detailed what I believe the learning and development industry needs to do in order to survive.  Last year, my message was full of hope. This year,…

Eighty percent of training professionals believe that evaluating training results is important to their organization, according to the Association for Talent Development’s 2016 research report, “Evaluating Learning: Getting to Measurements…

It is very tempting to want to isolate the impact of training on high-level organizational results or isolate the impact of any component, for that matter. The reality is that…

Leadership initiatives are among the most popular training topics. When properly executed, they can maximize all other initiatives and be a true force-multiplier. Unfortunately, many leadership initiatives only yield a…

We are cat lovers at Kirkpatrick Partners. Here are the simple, yet valuable, lessons our cats remind us of daily. Lesson #1: Start With the End in Mind Starting with…

Read the article If you have been tasked with implementing a leadership development program that yields organizational results, you are not alone. Leadership development is one of the top training…

Eighty percent of training professionals believe that evaluating training results is important to their organization, according to the Association for Talent Development’s 2016 research report “Evaluating Learning: Getting to Measurements…

So many of you have reached out and asked us how to measure the effectiveness of micro-learning and other newer styles of training. Here is our best advice, along with…