Looking at data around the effectiveness of learning, I’m always drawn to the point where people are asked how they felt the training/learning/event was and are asked to score it on a simple 1-6, or worse, 1-5 scale. How can you say what something is like when you don’t have a comparator? We could be… Read More How’s that?
I was reading an article over the weekend about the use of data in helping understand your learning offer, its engagement, and effectiveness. All good until I got to the part which which said that the point where people drop off is where they give up and need to be re-engaged. This feels wrong. Our… Read More Not quite what it says
I was fortunate to be speaking with Sally Rhodes last week and we were discussing evaluation and data. In the conversation I was bemoaning the lack of tactical and strategic data embraced by Learning and Development functions as part of their reporting and evaluation. Sally described the problem quite succinctly: If all you’re doing is… Read More Transactional analysis
Learning often wants to demonstrate its effectiveness through learning data – the numbers, amounts, times, completions, reflections, assessments and scores. The business wants to understand learning’s effectiveness through performance data – the speed to competence, error rates, compliance, controls, customer satisfaction, business success. If you want to be taken seriously, you MUST be able to… Read More Evaluation gaps
On Monday this week, there was a noticeable uplift in the number of downloads of the Women Talking About Learning podcast. It stood out because it was unusual; new episodes are published on a Tuesday. A quick investigation of the podcast statistics and it became clear it wasn’t lots of listens of the most recently… Read More Lies, damned lies and data
Lost and Desperate 