Articles by:
Ashley St. John
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Proving the impact of your learning initiatives
How do we evaluate the impact of a learning program in a way that isolates its effect on performance from other confounding factors? In short, how do we uncover the truth?
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Skills in demand, skills in decline
As a new normal emerges, it is apparent that ruling out the strategies that don’t work is just as important as identifying the ones that succeed. Taking a similar approach to skills data — by looking at skills in decline as well as those on the rise — will better prepare all of us for…
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A not-so-white paper on succession
Here’s how learning can present more diverse leadership examples.
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3 reasons external benchmarking is bad for corporate learning
By benchmarking learning, we are creating an artificial expectation that all learning should look the same and that learning departments should operate in the same ways. This is a hugely problematic assumption.
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Getting creative with learning ROI measurement
Many variables can influence the results of development efforts, and isolating the effects of training among everything else that is constantly happening in an organization is difficult. We therefore need to be creative when building these measures and integrating them into our learning functions.
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Unleash the power of peer coaching
Peer coaching is a powerful, yet underused, learning tool. But with many learning functions currently stretched thin, there’s opportunity to take better advantage of it.
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A diversity training success story
Here’s how marketing services firm Ansira was able to help managers recognize their own biases and change their behavior for the better.
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What’s holding inclusion back? Leaders’ behavior.
Only 31 percent of employees believe their leaders promote an inclusive environment, according to a recent report by DDI. Numbers like these beg the question, why aren’t leaders more inclusive? There are a few key obstacles holding them back.