Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. But it wasn’t.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Because the world of technology, and for that matter the use of technology in training, is changing so rapidly, most business managers are unaware of the promising user adoption solutions coming to the forefront. We can only go so far in persuading clients to employ cutting-edge solutions for user adoption and training.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 28, 2011

Walmart announced last week (April 18, 2011) that it is – … buying Mountain View-based Kosmix , a heavily funded social media technology provider that has built a platform that enables users to filter and organize content in social networks, in order to connect people with information that matters to them, in real-time.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 22, 2011

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Not only are these organizations losing skilled workers, they are losing the institutional knowledge they rely on. That knowledge has to be replaced and distributed to personnel in different geographic locations, which is where distance learning becomes a necessity.&#

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 5, 2011

Obviously, these changes have a potentially large impact on people working in the organization. For example, a new CRM or ERP system can change workers’ jobs, roles, and even dictate future employment status. Let’s say a company is centralizing accounting functions like Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.

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Degreed

OCTOBER 29, 2019

However, these strategies are nuanced, complex, and can vary dramatically between organizations, making it difficult to assign hard ROI on L&D efforts. Those results are in: after just 11 months of using Degreed, Tenaris saw an ROI of 119%. They’ve calculated their cost-benefit ratio at 1:2.7.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Some might confuse the use of wikis with sometimes controversial organizations like Wikileaks. It’s important to remember, though, that Wikileaks is essentially a non-profit news organization, not a tool for sharing information across and among users. They did it and it came out pretty good. That’s going to continue to grow.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Some might confuse the use of wikis with sometimes controversial organizations like Wikileaks. It’s important to remember, though, that Wikileaks is essentially a non-profit news organization, not a tool for sharing information across and among users. They did it and it came out pretty good. That’s going to continue to grow.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

I said in my last post that Kirkpatrick’s four levels were all about the training itself rather than how the training affects organizations. This is ROE, not ROI. Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. Level 4: Results.

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Disprz

MAY 31, 2021

Without a clear measurement plan, it is difficult to interpret the success of skilling initiatives taken by the organization or determine what needs to be changed in the current model. Disprz has enabled companies like Wellness Forever, a leading pharmacy retail chain in India increase their course completion ratio by 80%.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Just as the corporate world thought they had caught up to adult learning norms with the adoption of eLearning, and some with blended learning, along comes social learning. I believe user adoption or training should be developed with the intent of creating a social epidemic, or should we say ‘workplace epidemic.’

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Business networking not only brings new business and new talent, but it supports collaboration – whether it’s collaborating with internal team members or making connections outside of the organization.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Not only are these organizations losing skilled workers, they are losing the institutional knowledge they rely on. That knowledge has to be replaced and distributed to personnel in different geographic locations, which is where distance learning becomes a necessity.&#

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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WhatFix

MARCH 31, 2023

If your organization is looking for in-depth insights, you can combine descriptive analytics with other types. This allows L&D managers to provide early intervention and targeted support to enhance the training quality and raise the engagement ratio. All this can be done by implementing a digital adoption platform.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As the band director explained, the students organize the ensembles, recruit student musicians, and show up between one to four mornings a week – before school – to rehearse. by Jolene on December 14, 2010 in social learning Recently I witnessed a fabulous and fascinating display of social learning – a high school chamber music concert.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As the band director explained, the students organize the ensembles, recruit student musicians, and show up between one to four mornings a week – before school – to rehearse. by Jolene on December 14, 2010 in social learning Recently I witnessed a fabulous and fascinating display of social learning – a high school chamber music concert.

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Social Learning Social Networks Blended Learning Social 100

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Trent Batson wrote a great piece on technology adoption in the classroom a couple weeks ago entitled Faculty ‘Buy in’ – to What? Anthony “[hopes] that college educators will adopt this tool as a way to engage the students with technology without having to drastically change their teaching methods.” Sad, but true.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Businesses are increasingly organizing around shorter-term projects. Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. Business confidence is still extremely low. People hate firing other people.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Trent Batson wrote a great piece on technology adoption in the classroom a couple weeks ago entitled Faculty ‘Buy in’ – to What? Anthony “[hopes] that college educators will adopt this tool as a way to engage the students with technology without having to drastically change their teaching methods.” Sad, but true.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Blogging 140

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Although Twitter has a relatively small user base (approximately 200 million users compared to Facebook’s 600 million), these are your early adopters, your super-users, your friends that seem to know a little about everything and your friends that know absolutely everybody. Twitter is a marketer’s dream.

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Obsidian Learning

MAY 10, 2016

New post Evaluating Training – Capturing the Benefits Aspect of ROI on Obsidian Learning. In this context, the adoption of assessment methodologies becomes a critical imperative for businesses and training organizations. Calculating ROI. The formula to calculate ROI in this way is: ROI (%) = Benefit – Cost x 100 Cost.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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Social Networks Wiki Blended Learning Delicious 100

Disprz

JUNE 18, 2021

How can you justify the ROI for training and development with a high attrition rate? Another key trend that we have seen is around the completion ratios. What is interesting is that in the blue-collar workforce the completion ratio is very high compared to a knowledge worker. As some people leave after the training. Kuljit- Yes!

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music.

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Social Networks Facebook Blended Learning Enterprise 100

Disprz

JUNE 4, 2021

Without a clear measurement plan, it is difficult to interpret the success of skilling initiatives taken by the organization or determine what needs to be changed in the current model. Disprz has enabled companies like Wellness Forever, a leading pharmacy retail chain in India increase their course completion ratio by 80%.

Analytics 40

Analytics Skills ROI Metrics 40

Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

How do you know if blended learning is working in your organization? And we know that measuring the true impact of learning on an organization can be challenging. These metrics are helpful for making the case for learning, but are insufficient to argue for the value of learning to the organization. Level 3: Behavior.

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Docebo

MARCH 18, 2020

Deploying social learning concepts and technologies as part of the learning mix is no longer an option, it’s a necessity, and the data is there to unpack: Social learning approaches have a 75:1 ROI ratio compared to formal web-based training.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 16, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Give User Adoption the Respect it Deserves by Paul on May 17, 2011 in user adoption User adoption is the single biggest challenge when implementing new technology – it is now and it has been for 15 years.

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EI Design

AUGUST 30, 2018

Why Social Learning Works And Why Should You Adopt It For Employee Training? Do take a look at the following facts and you will change your mind: Social learning approaches have a 75:1 ROI ratio over web-based training (Association for Talent Development). Brings about self-organization among learners.

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