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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,…

We are so pleased to have you as part of our community. From the Kirkpatrick family to yours, we wish you the happiest of holidays and a great start to…

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…

Does training evaluation strike fear into your heart, creating anxiety because you feel uncertain about what to do or if what you’re doing is correct? It shouldn’t be that stressful.…

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…

Freedom of speech is a right that many fought hard to attain, and we do not believe it should be taken for granted. This November, we in the United States,…

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…

Effective training evaluation is elusive to many in the learning and development field. Most profess to understand the basics of the Kirkpatrick Model, yet struggle to implement it in their…

We often see training professionals committing the fatal error of confusing training goals with organizational goals. This creates division between training and the organization it serves, and often makes training…