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January 21, 2021
Goals Don’t Work. Here’s What Does.
Read MoreGoals do not work for most people, but we keep setting them. So what can you do to make a plan for success? Experts agree on one key element: an…
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January 13, 2021
Jim Kirkpatrick’s 2021 Predictions and Recommendations
Read MoreWhat I Learned in 2020 Last year I entitled my new year message ReNEWal. One of my goals was to build deeper relationships with my adult son, C.J., and my…
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January 7, 2021
Why Training Programs and New Year’s Resolutions Usually Fail
Read MoreMost training programs yield about 15% effectiveness. New year’s resolutions work about 20% of the time. Why these dismally low success rates? Because most people fail to create and implement…
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December 17, 2020
4 Small Training Changes That Yield Big Outcomes
Read MoreBy Jim Kirkpatrick Are you struggling to get the input you need from others to build your training programs? Is feedback hard to come by? There is no natural bridge…
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December 10, 2020
Our Best Tips for Virtual Training Success
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but in 2020 we were really busy converting in-person training programs to virtual formats. Sometimes the outcomes surprised us, and sometimes they were exactly what…
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October 29, 2020
Does the Kirkpatrick Model Stand the Test of Time?
Read MoreThe Kirkpatrick Model was great for the 1950s, but what about now? Click here to read the data in an article published in the International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences. It demonstrates…
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October 22, 2020
4 Steps to Effective Training and Training Effectiveness
Read MoreIn Jim Kirkpatrick’s interview with the team of Right Click Refresh you will hear answers to the most common question about the Kirkpatrick Model and what four simple steps you can take to…
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October 15, 2020
Are You Just a Training Provider or Are You a Business Partner?
Read MoreToday many training departments are facing the difficult question of how to justify the continued need for their efforts in a world where YouTube, apps and avatars are replacing formal…
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October 1, 2020
How to Get Managers Involved in Kirkpatrick Levels 3 and 4
Read MoreAre you struggling to get managers and supervisors on board with their role in post-training evaluation, especially during the pandemic? If so, this information packed episode of The Accidental Trainer…
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September 17, 2020
“Is Training Analytics Smoke & Mirrors?” Article Makes The Top 10
Read MoreThank you for making our article, “Is Training Analytics Smoke & Mirrors?,” one of the top 10 articles of 2019 in Training Industry Magazine! We appreciate that many of you read…
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September 10, 2020
3 Biggest Training Evaluation Mistakes Learning & Performance Professionals Make
Read More3 Biggest Training Evaluation Mistakes Learning & Performance Professionals Make While many things in our world have recently changed, a few things remain constant. Among them is the misguided way…
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September 3, 2020
Worried About Your Future? Make Sure You Demonstrate Your Value
Read MoreGiven the current economic climate in which all expenditures are being carefully monitored, there is no better time to use the four levels to create, deliver, measure and validate training…
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August 20, 2020
Are You Ready for the Changing Role of Training and Evaluation?
Read MoreThe work environment has changed dramatically in 2020, and perhaps for the foreseeable future. The virtual office has a dramatic impact on how we train employees and evaluate training effectiveness. Listen…
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July 28, 2020
Remote Leadership That Drives Performance and Results
Read MoreBy Jim Kirkpatrick and Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick Organizations around the world are scrambling to equip supervisors and managers to lead their teams remotely, over video conference and the telephone. Most…
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July 14, 2020
Thrive or Perish – Retool Your Training and Evaluation Strategy for 2020 and Beyond
Read MoreWorld health concerns have changed the way people work and how they engage in training and development. So what does this mean for how we teach people and evaluate learning effectiveness?…
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July 14, 2020
Four Levels to Creating Believable Value with Online Training
Read MoreLearn how successful organizations get their leaders and employees to apply the training they have received when they get back to their jobs. Listen to the recording of this webinar to…
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June 24, 2020
Is Your Mandatory Training Boring?
Read MoreOften training participants in Kirkpatrick programs say things like, “I teach mandatory training, so it pretty much has to be boring.” It doesn’t have to be that way. Follow the…
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June 10, 2020
Remote Learning That Works – A Case Example
Read MoreOn average, it takes about 20 individual practices for a teacher to master a skill, and the number increases as the complexity of the skill increases (Joyce & Showers, 2002).…
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May 28, 2020
Sometimes Training Truly Is a Matter of Life and Death
Read MoreBy 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…
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May 13, 2020
Ways to Assist Sequestered Learners Right Now
Read MoreSuddenly, 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…
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May 6, 2020
Training Resources to Assist You During the Pandemic
Read MoreI 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…
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April 29, 2020
Evaluating Healthcare Learning Has Never Been More Important
Read MoreTo 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…
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April 22, 2020
4 Simple Steps to Create Training That Produces Results
Read MoreThe 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…
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April 15, 2020
Should We Forget Learning and Focus on Performance?
Read MoreAs 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…