by | Feb 11, 2016 | Learning Transfer, MDI Inside |
At the beginning of any measure there is always a certain pain point – Department X isn’t efficient. Our team has problems with personal customer support. – and soon you hear “We need a training!”. Therefore training suppliers get instructed, topics get approved and dates get confirmed. Hardly anyone is asking: Is it really the training we need? What do we de facto need to reach our goals? A possible answer with our mountain impulse.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Jan 27, 2016 | Learning Transfer, Training Insights |
Training is only effective and reasonable if learned things are applied in practice afterwards. But that’s exactly the difficult part! Visible learning transfer which is documented and therewith controllable isn’t easy to get. Targeted learning transfer measures, provided pre and post a training – for a example on a learning transfer platform – can do the trick. In our new series “Learning transfer in practice” we present just these transfer measures. Today: A reflection work on the circle of influence.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Oct 6, 2015 | Learning Transfer, MDI Inside, Training Insights |
Nobody likes to give insights into fields, where problems exist. And due to a mutual comfort zone everybody tends to avoid questions about it. We’re talking about trainers and organisations designing development programs together. For real trainings results as well as positive and direct contribution to business-goals it takes courage – on both sides. We talked with Masha Ibeschitz, coach and training expert, about this delicate topic.
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by | Sep 18, 2015 | Learning Transfer, MDI Inside |
Think about a training executed for your employees which took a lot of time and money and which was successful, at least when it comes to the subjective feeling. Satisfied participants, nice ratings for trainer and program, everything is fine. Not long afterwards the training is in the spotlight again and with it the unavoidable questions: What was the real outcome of the training? Where and what are the direct results? What was the use for the company? The Kirkpatrick methodology based on 4 levels of evaluation does not only prepare HR and development managers to answer these questions. First and foremost it is a methodology to increase training results significantly. In the following you find an overview.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Aug 20, 2015 | Best Practice, Customer Story, International leadership development, Learning Transfer, MDI Inside, Training Insights |
These days, the Learning & Development industry is undergoing a considerable change. Digital tools and online offers are on the rise and HR departments face new challenges as well as new possibilities when it comes to employee and leadership development. One of these new possibilities is Promote, a learning transfer platform offering the chance to sustainably manage learning transfer and development programs which go far beyond a single training-shot.
We asked Remko Verheul – Global Head of HR at Travix International and previous Program Director of the Swarovski Academy – about his experience with the new platform and his forecast for the L&D industry.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Aug 6, 2015 | Learning Transfer |
Helena Gutierrez, MDI trainer and development guide was one of the first to do a training program with an online tool to manage and increase learning transfer – Promote. Promote is – in simple words – a platform to sustainably manage and therewith increase learning transfer. Today Helena shares her field experience with us.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Aug 6, 2015 | Learning Transfer, MDI Inside, Training Insights |
Maybe you ask yourself if a simple blog entry about a learning transfer platform is able to keep the promise given in the headline. And if you think of me as a sales consultant for this very learning transfer platform you might expect mere sales and marketing packed in some nice words explaining the benefits you as a company might gain from Promote. Well, you will read a little bit of that. But first and foremost I’d like to explain why I love my new role as a sales consultant for the platform and which renovations I see by using the learning transfer platform.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Jul 2, 2015 | Learning Transfer, MDI Inside, Training Insights |
Quickly booked, quickly realized and also quickly forgotten! That is the fate of a large number of webinars which are available nowadays. Even if costs and amount of time spent on webinars are lower than on face-to-face trainings, ineffective webinars are really annoying – especially for HR.
We asked specialists in learning techniques and experienced webinar trainers about their tips and hints for effective webinars. In the following you find their answers summed up in 8 must-haves for successful webinars as part of employee training.
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