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The L&D cheat sheet
A checklist for your existing and new learning initiatives.So that you always make an impact with your training investments.
Do you want to be an L&D like:
- maximize the learning impact?
- Align your training offerings with organizational strategy?
- Increase the return on your training investments?
- choosing the right focus in training?
- motivate internally to release time and resources?
- Challenge the status quo on training?
- Increase your internal support?
I want the cheat sheet
Download the L&D cheat sheet.
A checklist for you as an L&D manager:
- To measure your existing training against.
- to guide new learning initiatives.
- To strengthen learning in own L&D team.
And thus increase the return on your training investment.
Download the cheat sheet
Obelisk was a guest on the ZIGZAG HR podcast
Lesley of ZIGZAG HR crawled into the minds of Helen Goovaerts (managing director) and Liesbeth Vanhelmont (supervisor) of Obelisk, and finds her answers.
Due to limited time, we as L&D quickly reach for quick wins or just very innovative training. Learning initiatives that end up missing their effectiveness. This is a waste of all the time , money and energy invested.
- How do you maximize learning impact?
- How do you ensure alignment?
- How do you make the right choices in your training offerings?
- How do you increase the return on your training investments?
download the transcribed podcast here
Lesley crept into Obelisk's head with these questions:
- Where do you think things already go wrong when concretizing learning initiatives in organizations?
- What soft skills contribute most to an organization's strategy?
- Do all soft skills contribute to an organizational strategy?
- Are soft skills developable in everyone and everywhere?
- What should you do to increase the impact of a learning initiative?
- Can you spark learning motivation in everyone or not?
- How do you measure the effectiveness of your learning initiatives?
- In all your initiatives, you work evidence-based with sufficient pragmatism. What is the difference with evidence-based work? And why do you work this way?
- How can you measure the effect of a leadership program in an informed way?
- What are your 5 concrete tips for L&D professionals?
These were the answers from our experts:
- Many organizations go for quick fixes in L&D, with undesirable effects. (2:00-5:04)
- These soft skills contribute most to an organization's strategy. (5:04 - 6:30)
- Preconditions for determining whether soft skills contribute to an organizational strategy. (6:30 - 9:50
- Knowledge and skills are developable in classical training. Invest in longer learning paths to develop abilities.(9:50 - 13:25)
- Thanks to vertical and horizontal alignment, you realize impact with your learning initiatives. We will also give 2 concrete examples. (13:25 - 18:35)
- You can turn certain knobs to increase participants' learning motivation. (18:35 - 21:40)
- The 4 principles of evidence-based work and why Obelisk uses this method when choosing interventions. (21:40 - 26:50)
- Measuring the effect of a leadership program based on Kirk Patrick's 4 levels, including concrete examples for each level. (26:50 - 32:40)
- 5 concrete tips that you as an L&D professional can get started on right away. (32:40 - 43:00)
The L&D cheat sheet, a checklist for your learning initiatives:
- 4 theoretical models for L&D professionals.
- Applied with a concrete practical example.
- For each model, 5 critical questions for your L&D team.
