What’s What

By Leigh Dudley on May 22, 2010

here are some definitions I ran across after reading Carter McNamara’s blog titled Are You Doing OD? Training? Consulting? Coaching? All of These? enjoy

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Mentoring Programs who do They Benefit and How can they work Better?

By Leigh Dudley on May 19, 2010

Mentors are a benefit for all parties involved and a GREAT case for KM in an organization.

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4 Steps to Conducting a Needs Assessment:

By Leigh Dudley on May 15, 2010

(This post has been moved to http://managementhelp.org/trng_dev/analyze/analyze.htm .)

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Needs Assessment

By Leigh Dudley on May 11, 2010

The First Step A Needs Assessment is a systematic exploration of the way things are and the way they should be. These “things” are usually associated with organizational and/or individual performance. WHY design and conduct a Needs Assessment? We need to consider the benefits of any Human Resource Development (HRD) intervention before we just go […]

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Challenges of a semi Recent Grad Student

By Leigh Dudley on May 8, 2010

This post is a little different folks, it’s about searching for a position as a training designer, or training specialist. It’s my personal journey in the search for said position. I have been looking for a career position for almost 18 months. I started in January, 2009 one semester prior to graduating with my Masters […]

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Instruments to Measure Post Training Effectiveness

By Leigh Dudley on May 4, 2010

Evaluation is not just for the trainers and learning professionals, it’s for the adult learner, the middle managers and everyone involved in the process of training and development – Even more important, in today’s recession, training is unfortunately one of the first areas in a business to be trimmed or cut. So we have to […]

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Defining Performance

By Leigh Dudley on May 1, 2010

Imagine that you have just returned from attending a concert or play. When asked if your enjoyed the event, you reply “It was good.” What do you really mean by this statement? Do you want it understood that the musicians, actors, and support staff were talented or that the basic sheet music or script was […]

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Estimation time when starting a training program

By Leigh Dudley on April 27, 2010

Everyone has or should have a general idea of how much time it takes to develop a new training program.  In the research I’ve done times are all over the place 10:1 all the way up to 40:1 the later being very generous. I think if you had a 40:1 ratio you’d never find a […]

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Tools for your Training/HPT toolbox

By Leigh Dudley on April 24, 2010

Sorry this is a day late, life happens – Well I promised to give some useful tools to put in your training toolbox – I had a comment on a past post and the writer suggested that “companies are choosing to use additional methods such as corporate videos for training and development opportunities (benefits enrollments […]

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Training problem or HPI problem?

By Leigh Dudley on April 20, 2010

I was reading a post on linked-in on the problems with determining how to deal with problems such as leadership, miss-management and so on. This lead to me thinking that leadership and miss-management and things such as environment or ergonomics are not training problems at all they are in effect Human performance problems. Training is […]

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