I heard a CEO the other day, in a corporate video, say: “Strategy without impact is a piece of paper.” Fair enough. But if measuring impact isn’t written into the strategy from the start, the strategy was never serious. Most organisations plan the intervention, but nobody plans the evidence. If you didn’t design for evidence… Read More Impact doesn’t measure itself
Laura Overton has been doing serious L&D research for 20 years. so when she says a study matters, I pay attention. The CIPD is repeating its L&D research. and this time they’ve done something different. Instead of asking one part of the system what it thinks, they’re asking everyone with a stake in how learning… Read More Do This Today
Most learning fails quietly. It is designed for attendance instead of decision, and it ‘works’ when people attend. If nothing at work becomes easier, faster, or safer within weeks, the learning didn’t land. Impact leaves fingerprints on real work.
Educational Measurement (Fifth Edition), edited by Educational Measurement and produced by the National Council on Measurement in Education, is out at the end of February. It pulls together current research and guidance across the full measurement landscape. Validity. Reliability. Fairness. Interpretation. Consequences. The chapters are written by people who have spent decades arguing about this… Read More Learning, Measured Seriously
Reading a survey from Personio and HR Grapevine last week, this result confirms what many suspect: This single line exposes the L&D profession’s measurement crisis. When leadership rarely asks about learning effectiveness, and HR finds it among the hardest metrics to report on, we’ve created a perfect storm of irrelevance. Nobody’s asking because nobody expects… Read More Performance first