Learning Styles: improving your training effectiveness

Learning Styles: improving your training effectiveness

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Brian Moore and Guy Flouch outline how to improve training effectiveness by developing a greater understanding of the different learning styles of trainees. Learning is the goal of training. As…
Evaluating training results: make sure staff training pays off

Evaluating training results: make sure staff training pays off

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How can managers track training results? Have staff achieved the training objectives? Are you satisfied with what the training has accomplished? These questions have dogged trainers, performance improvement professionals and…
Top 5 principles for effective meetings

Top 5 principles for effective meetings

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Meetings, formal and informal are an integral part of organisational life. Effective meetings are an essential tool to achieve a range of tasks. This includes information sharing and problem solving…
How to run an ideas campaign that really pays off

How to run an ideas campaign that really pays off

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Should you run an ideas campaign? Yes! Several major organisations have found ways to generate significant improvements to their bottom line through imaginative ideas, schemes and campaigns. However, there are…
ROI & training analysis: a step-by-step guide

ROI & training analysis: a step-by-step guide

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Is training paying its way in your organisation? Pat Collier looks at the thorny issue of return-on-investment – ROI – for training programmes. The need to justify the cost of training One of…
Assessing individual strengths: A quick, fun activity for teams

Assessing individual strengths: A quick, fun activity for teams

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Feeling undervalued? Not sure where your strengths lie? Training activity guru Sivasailam Thiagi Thiagarajan has created a quick and fun way for team members to assess individual strengths… Recently, I completed a Reflected Best Self…
Training simulations: the value of immersive learning

Training simulations: the value of immersive learning

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David Newman of explains how experiential simulations, pitting competing teams against each other, offer powerful learning experiences. Survivor: the banker edition Imagine the latest weird twist on a TV reality…
Training needs analysis: what’s the best approach?

Training needs analysis: what’s the best approach?

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Jan Hills suggests taking a more positive approach to your training needs analysis, by focusing on the outcome rather than the problem. What is training needs analysis? A training needs analysis…
Real evaluation transforms organisations

Real evaluation transforms organisations

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Paul Kearns outlines how real evaluation can make a significant contribution to the evaluation of training effectiveness. Real evaluation is not about ‘happy sheets’, questionnaires or surveys. Arguments about return-on-investment…