measurement

Talent Development Reporting principles (TDRp): A Management versus Measurement Initiative

on June 17, 2013 · Comments · in The Business Of Learning

We  have learned over the last year that TDRp is best viewed and described as a management initiative rather than a measurement initiative. This is important not only from a conceptual point of view but from an implementation point of view as well. The vision of TDRp is to transform how talent is managed. In [...]

Stop Making Excuses and Just Start Measuring

on June 5, 2013 · Comments · in The Business Of Learning

Stop making excuses for not measuring the impact of learning and just get started. This was the consensus among the panelists at a recent Skillsoft Perspectives Conference in Orlando, Fla. The panelists were Laurie Bassi of McBassi & Associates, Jay Jamrog of i4cp, Kendall Kerekes of KnowledgeAdvisors, Patti Phillips of ROI Institute and myself, with [...]

Happy New Year and Let’s Get Going!

on January 4, 2013 · Comments · in The Business Of Learning

Happy New Year to all readers! I hope you have found past blogs helpful and will continue to read and share your thoughts and experiences. This is a good time for a little reflection about the state of the industry. Most of us, I think, would agree that the industry is not where it should [...]

Measurement and Evaluation: What Is Your Strategy?

on November 15, 2012 · Comments · in The Business Of Learning

Every important learning program as well as every training function should have a measurement and evaluation strategy. Both the measurement and evaluation parts are important. You can certainly measure without evaluating the results (for example, just collecting level 1 data), and you can evaluate without formal measurement (for example, using the case study method or [...]

Learning Metrics: People Just Don’t Get It

on August 21, 2012 · Comments · in The Business Of Learning

So many just don’t get it! I was reading a discussion yesterday about measurement and metrics, which concluded by asking if metrics were really necessary. Really? Like many others, these folks thought of metrics as something nice to do if you had the resources. Now, I hope they were just referring to higher-level measurement like Kirkpatrick/Phillips levels 4 and [...]