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Use a Community of Practice to Enhance the Learning from Training Programs

It’s a great way to keep the learning going and engage individuals in their own development

Creating a Community of Practice enables you to enhance the learning that participants receive from training programs. Let’s look at an example of a client who utilized a Community of Practice (CoP) to enhance the learning from a project […]

Effective Questioning Techniques for Trainers

Key importance for all trainers is how to ask the right questions to ensure that participants in a training program understand the concepts presented. There are a variety of techniques to use and certainly some combination of all should be used in every training program you teach.

Here are some to consider:

Recall: I use […]

Training is an Investment – Part II

Gather data to show how investing in training can help meet company goals

Read Part I of this post, where we introduced a company that wanted to find a way to prove to leadership that the training budget should be expanded upon to provide training necessary so employees can help the company meets its goals.

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Helping Learners Build Confidence

A few months ago I was meeting with a client for lunch and we were discussing challenges he was having within the training department. He told me that his biggest challenge is getting the employees who take training to apply the skills back on the job. And it wasn’t the usual problem – managers who […]

Training is an Investment

So start looking at it as one

In a recent conversation with a colleague over coffee, she mentioned that it was becoming increasingly difficult to convince her customers that training was an investment – in every employee – not just a “select few.” She asked if I was seeing the same problem with my clients. […]