Posts Tagged #chat2lrn
Don’t Drink the Learning Evaluation Kool-Aid!
Posted by Ajay M. Pangarkar CTDP, CPA, CMA in Accountability, Business, Buy-in, Kirkpatrick, Learning, Performance, Training Effectiveness, training evaluation, Workplace on August 13, 2015
Learning practitioners are taught early, or should I dare say brainwashed, to believe the ‘essential’ four levels of evaluation. Many of us refer to these levels as the Kirkpatrick’s Evaluation Model and it has been a cornerstone in every learning event and also a foundation for many evaluation models that followed.
But let’s be honest, the unspoken truth is that the Kirkpatrick model is flawed. Yes, I dare say it out loud and may the learning gods, and some of my peers, strike me down. While you pick you jaw off the floor, the fact is that the evaluation method has some apparent issues. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Snake Oil’ From the Bully Pulpit
Posted by Ajay M. Pangarkar CTDP, CPA, CMA in Bully, Conference, Learning, Management, Performance, Strategy, Training Effectiveness, Workplace on December 3, 2014
Recently, a well-respected workplace learning peer posted an interesting and conversation-inducing discussion about dealing with a ‘snake oil’ person within your personal learning network (PLN).
Personally, I found this blog post very insightful. I respect the message the post is attempting to communicate but a thought crossed my mind, “How prevalent is the issue of having a ‘snake-oil’ person in a PLN become?” It doesn’t seem to be a significant issue within my PLNs.
Since it is not an issue for me, I reflected on how would I define a ‘snake oil’ person within my PLNs? And, do they exist in my PLN or other learning environments I participate?
Giving Thanks for Turkey Stuffing & Lifelong Learning
Posted by Ajay M. Pangarkar CTDP, CPA, CMA in Learning, Performance, training evaluation, Workplace on November 24, 2014
People often say to us, “Wow, you’re lucky! You have everything you wished for.” We politely respond with a ‘thank you’…but what we really want to say is that both ‘luck’ and ‘wishes’ had nothing to do with it.
With (US) Thanksgiving only a few days away, we do believe that this is a good time to reflect. We reflected upon our successes and the good fortune that we experience in our personal and professional lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Ajay Pangarkar, CTDP, CMA
Ajay is a leading workplace performance thought-leader, strategist, 3x author, and President of CentralKnowledge Inc. He is also an all-around great guy!
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