The conversations I’m having about Proving Impact are really enlightening. One key theme appearing recently is just how many sources do you need to produce comprehensive and compelling reports. You can only answer this question if you have: a) understood the baseline you’re working from and;b) have absolute clarity on what you want to achieve.… Read More How many?
As part of the work I have done looking at evaluation over the years, I’ve spoken with dozens of people about learning data and collection. However, I’d like to find out even and have pulled together some key questions in a short survey. Taking no more than 7 minutes or so, the survey has been… Read More L&D Attitudes to Evaluation
More than half of all staff at core departments and 40% of civil servants across government took part in the four-month One Big Thing data-skills drive, the Cabinet Office has said. Civil Service World 26th Jan 2024 I saw this reported last week and the article details the content accessed by departments, the time spent,… Read More And…?
I’m pulling together a dozen ideas to produce some workshop material next year about improving evaluation practice in learning and development – keep looking out for it early next year. One area I’ve been focusing on has been bias. There isn’t bias in data per se, just bias in what’s collected, when, how, why, who… Read More Bias in data
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