EFFECTIVE LEARNING
How to make trainings really effective – An interview with transfer specialist Ina Weinbauer-Heidel
It already exists for more than 100 years: the history of transfer research. Nevertheless, there is an enormous research-practice-gap. With an average implementation rate of 20%, companies spend a lot of money and time on development measures that are not very...
How you actually gain measurable training results – Power package from our daily practice
Day in and out the following question bothers us: How can we ensure that learned training content is really applied in practice, leading to sustainable change of behavior? Today we’d like to show you the three most effective approaches we got to know during past years...
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Synchronous vs. asynchronous eLearning – What does fit better with your Blended Learning Solutions? [infographic]
You would like to add-on eLearning components to the face-2-face trainings in your development initiatives? And thus create a Blended Learning Solution? That’s a great idea! We are sure you’re really enthusiastic about your plan, but before you go ahead there are a...
Why do we need a new leadership approach? – Lateral leadership impulse series Vol. 1
Lateral leadership – which means leading without hierarchical power – is THE leadership model of the future. Parameters like the democratization of society, higher educational standards and much more contributed to the fact that the classical hierarchical leadership...
More self-confidence in my role as a new leader – A story of success
To accompany new leaders in the first months of their new role is one of the most exciting challenges we face every day. We asked our participants how they feel in our trainings and talked with Holger Hammer, department manager at Heidenheimer Zeitung, about his...
Learning transfer card: Leading teams
When it comes to development of employees and leaders it’s all about transferring learned things into the working practice of the participants and to anchor content and new behaviour in their heads. “Application on-the-job” is the relevant keyword and a huge challenge...
Mountain affair – Evaluating training needs and planning reasonably
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...
Learning transfer in practice – Reflection work: Circle of concern vs. circle of influence
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,...
Leaving the comfort zone – More courage for more training results
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...
Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels of training evaluation – Results beyond happy sheets
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...
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