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Follow the Leader—Preparing Your Top Talent to Lead

In our last post, we talked a little about making plans for 2014. For your organization, part of those New Year’s plans may be grooming new leaders or improving current leaders. Start at the Top An eParamus specialty is leadership development. We can fine-tune your top leaders to focus your business. To state the obvious, senior

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What Are Your Big Plans for 2014?

I find it unbelievable that October is nearly over. Leaves are falling. The weather is getting cooler. The holidays are approaching.  I’m not sure where the year has gone. It’s  natural this time of  year to get nostalgic, take stock of the year behind us, and start thinking about the year ahead. This is true

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You’re Hired! Now What?

I just read a really interesting blog post recently:  5 Conversations You Must Have with A New Boss. The post provides great information for new employees, but if you are a supervisor or responsible for on-boarding new employees, the post also makes a great read. This topic reminded me of the basics people need when

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Learning About Your Customer—Should T&D Play A Role?

As a training and development professional, your job boils down to engaging and developing adult learners, nearly always in relation to their jobs. For those of us in internal training groups, that means creating learning for our fellow employees. For others who consult with other firms, that means working with clients on the best way

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Why Are People So Nervous About Tying ROI to Training?

Recently, I read the Chief Learning Officer article, “Weighing the Options: Different Schools of Thought.” The writer describes Kirkpatrick’s Levels and draws the same conclusion everyone in the training profession has drawn: Measuring Levels 1 and 2, we’ve got down. Levels 3 and 4 still need work because we’re not getting there with our current

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Practice Makes Perfect

There’s a difference between learning something and mastering something. That difference is practice. As a training professional, do you make sure your training programs include practice? Do you allow students to use their new-found learning within the context of work? Why Practice Matters Several books have come out in recent years that tout the effectiveness

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Training Is Not The Silver Bullet Solution

Take a look at this article: How Trainers Can Add Value: More Problem Solving, Less Training. I was struck by the truth of this statement: “Training is often—and mistakenly—assumed to be the silver bullet that can solve performance issues, and training managers are usually the ones charged with delivering the solution.” Is Lack of Training

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The One Thing You Need to Secure Your Training Budget

How Does the Budget Process Make You Feel? Does your stomach churn as you wonder if you’ll have to make deep cuts to your staff or resources? Is the training expense viewed as overhead and, in the minds of the top brass, expendable? Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to struggle for every

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Not Measuring Training Effectiveness Costs You as a Taxpayer

Recently, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan agency that works at the request of Congress, was asked to check into the effectiveness of training in government agencies. There were 23 agencies surveyed ranging from the Department of Agriculture to Homeland Security to the EPA. The survey included every major agency of our government. Below

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Measuring Training Impact with Hard Data

Previously we discussed the perception model of training, which is the model most organizations rely on. Perception models measure just that—perception. These models often use surveys to evaluate a course or education session. These surveys tell you what students think and feel about training. Don’t Rely On Opinions to Measure Training Impact Instead of relying

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