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Driving Behavior Change After Training

Executive Summary: Sustaining Virtual Leadership Development

Agile and resilient leaders who can effectively influence the performance and engagement of their teams have never been more in demand. Leadership training is a vital investment, so how can organizations ensure that their learners retain and apply what they learn back on the job? To answer that question, CLS partnered with Training Industry, Inc. to conduct a two-year research study […]

How to Make Learning Stick: Strategies to Drive Behavior Change

Reinforcement in the Workflow

Agile and resilient leaders have never been more in demand. In 2019, organizations spent approximately $3.53 billion to train employees how to be effective leaders. Leadership training is an essential investment, so how can organizations ensure that their leaders retain and apply what they learn back on the job? In a recently released white paper, […]

Five Proven Paths to Training Pull-Through

Hands down, the Achilles heel of every learning and training professional is determining how to help the people we sent to training—or trained ourselves!—to change. To grow! To use newly minted tools, techniques, strategies and behaviors to become the leaders we believe they could become—if only they would develop new habits from what they learned! […]

Sustaining Virtual Leadership Development: An In-Depth Study of Learners and Training Transfer

Developing leaders is an investment, so how can organizations ensure that their leaders retain and apply what they learn in leadership training? To answer this question, The Center for Leadership Studies partnered with Training Industry, Inc. to conduct a research study investigating post-training reinforcement. This white paper will explore the impact that both goals and reinforcement have on leadership outcomes.

Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect … Perfect Practice Makes Perfect

Despite the best-selling efforts of Malcolm Gladwell in “Outliers,” many continue to attribute accomplishments of significance to people born with unique talents. It’s a sort of built-in defense mechanism we have long been able to muster up on demand to reduce (and even eliminate) the dissonance associated with our relative commonality. The messaging sounds something […]

Behavior Change is a Function of Proactive Positioning and Immediate Reinforcement

We are officially throwing caution to the wind and thinking outside of the box we usually confine ourselves in when drafting this column. Ready for “old school interactive”? Here you go: 1. Take out a piece of paper and a writing instrument of your choice. Put the following words across the top of the page […]

Should you Change Leadership Training Providers? Four Ways to Tell

Leadership is the foundation of your business. Without it, you’ve got nothing — no strategy, no culture, no success. It’s no wonder that your choice of leadership training provider is one of the most important business decisions you’ll make. And, like any business partnership, it’s important that you regularly evaluate your relationship to be sure […]

Turning the Levels Model Upside Down

The levels model! When you say those three words to anyone that has been in the training space for more than a decade, the image of Donald Kirkpatrick jumps to mind for a reason. The model, which is attributed to him, has been the foundation of training evaluation since the early 1960s. In a manner […]

The Three Key Stakeholders for Learning Transfer

Let’s face it – there is a lot of information out there. With a few clicks, taps or keystrokes, you can access an abundance of search results on almost any subject. For the sake of example and in the context of this blog, let’s assume your subject has something to do with measuring the impact […]

What Differentiates the Situational Leader?