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How Do You Respond When Someone Asks You to Jump?

In response to a thought-provoking story about a saleswoman whose many rings served as the basis of her business conversations, one Kirkpatrick Community member reflected: “Before I learned to...

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How to Use Drivers to Ensure Training Success

This article by Larry Bird, Section Manager for Engineering Training at Bruce Power, provides a brief introduction to drivers and reviews their place in the training...

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Communicating the Value of Training – Part 2

Click here to get caught up if you missed part 1 of Dr. Jim Kirkpatrick’s interview with Candee Basford. The infographic that Candee created fueled interest in the Kirkpatrick...

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Communicating the Value of Training

How do you communicate the value of training to your co-workers and managers so they understand it? Here’s an example from Candee Basford, an education...

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Maximize Your Program Outcomes with a Training Evaluation Sonar Plan – Part 4

The Navy must always be prepared before entering the field. They do not wait until they are in the middle of the ocean to think...

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Use Active Training Evaluation Sonar to Maximize Training Value – Part 3

Military submarines use active sonar, or pinging, to emit pulses and create echoes that identify nearby objects and potential threats. Workplace learning and performance professionals (WLPs)...

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Are You Maximizing Your Passive Training Sonar Data? – Part 2

Military submarines use passive sonar to “listen” for nearby obstructions or threats. A long, sensitive cable called a towed array is stretched out behind a moving submarine and...

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What the Navy Can Teach Us About Training Evaluation – Part 1

Military organizations provide many training best practices because they cannot afford to just train people and hope that they perform well in the field. Flawless...

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Let’s Get Real About Training Evaluation – Part 2

In today’s resource-strapped business world, there exists greater pressure than ever to demonstrate the value of training to the organization. In Part 2 of this...

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Let’s Get Real About Training Evaluation – Part 1

In today’s resource-strapped business world, there exists greater pressure than ever to demonstrate the value of training to the organization. In Part 1 of this...

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Test Your Knowledge of Training Evaluation Strategy

Misinformation about training evaluation and the Kirkpatrick Model abounds. How confident are you in your knowledge? Take this quick, 10-question true/false quiz to test your...

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How Do You Choose Your Sample Size?

Written by Dr. Ken Reynolds of SRA International, Inc. Random sampling is the basis for most of the procedures of statistical inference. An appropriate sampling methodology ensures the equal likelihood...

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