February 18, 2004  


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Dear readers,

The articles selected for this issue continue to look to the future of the profession of training, e-learning and HR management. Of particular note is Lance Dublin's article addressing the need for ensuring Return on Investment of e-learning implementation in your organization.   

Implementing Your e-Learning: Ensuring the Return on Your e-Learning Investment  is the title of the second in a series of free Webinars being offered to WorkplaceXpert readers on Wednesday, March 10. Click here for details.


9 Myths of E-Learning Implementation
11 Ways for Demonstrating ROI on a Shoestring
Your Ideal Balance: Match e-learning and the Classroom with a Proven Way to Change Behavior
The Impact of Assessment and Testing
Starting up a Virtual Team
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9 Myths of E-Learning Implementation

By Lance Dublin
As I discussed in my article last month, "If You Don't Know Where You're Going, Any Road Will Take You There: Lessons on e-Learning Strategy from the Cheshire Cat", a successful e-learning strategy must also include a strategy for implementation. Plain and simple, no e-learning strategy implements itself. Having a great e-learning strategy and having great e-learning programs is just no guarantee of success. Without a clear and well-thought out implementation strategy and plan, your overall e-learning strategy will most likely fall far short of your goals and the business potential. (LEARN MORE)




11 Ways for Demonstrating ROI on a Shoestring 
By Patti Phillips
Most agree there is significant merit to measuring and evaluating training programs. But how do you get this done when budget resources are limited? If an organization is running on a shoestring budget, there are still ways to demonstrate results in monetary terms, We have proven, cost-saving approaches organizations can take to show financial accountability. It's just knowing where to start.
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Your Ideal Balance: Match e-learning and the Classroom with a Proven Way to Change Behavior
By D.L. Karl and Craig Perrin
Organizations have long understood the link between business results and the quality of workplace interactions, both among employees and between employees and their customers. As a result, these organizations continue to invest in classroom training in interpersonal skills. Recently, however, a new and urgent need - to increase the impact of training while reducing its cost - has fueled the search for more efficient methods and media. For some, that search arrived at a "blended solution," usually a mix of e-learning, classroom and other methods.
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The Impact of Assessment and Testing
By Michael Brannick
Business performance and employee career plans ride on the relevance and validity of corporate learning programs. Valid corporate learning programs make learning assessment an ongoing part of training and an ongoing, fundamental part of your employees' jobs. Think of assessment as an instrument that you can use to get your learners thinking about how they personally can help the business. Imagine a business that wasn't focused on how its strategies, investments, resource allocations and reporting systems weren't aligned to produce growth. In many instances, these unfocused businesses suffer from turnover, productivity declines and customer defections that all put pressure on the bottom line. (LEARN MORE) 



Starting up a Virtual Team
By Stu Noble
A Virtual Team is one whose members share a common purpose, but are separated by distance, time, and organizational boundaries. In such a team, members are linked only by communication technologies. For example, a software development team may have members in the United States, India, Taiwan, and Brazil, and their only communication may be through the Internet, telephone, and video-conferencing technologies. As such, virtual team members face unique challenges at every stage of their development and performance cycle. 
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