Blended Learning for Maximum Impact

Nicolas De Dobbeleer, M.Sc., PMP, is the managing director of The Project Gold Mine, a consulting company focusing on organizational performance that is based in Belgium.

  Career Development   Governance   Lessons Learned   Knowledge Shelf  

Abstract
Many companies are looking for a higher return on investment on trainings. How often do people go off for a few a days to an intercompany/public training event and then come back to work, try to apply what they have learned, and struggle with their own practice or with organizational constraints that might prevent them from implementing best practices, eventually forgetting what they have learned in a matter of months?
 
Having worked with several customers on organizational changes, we believe that traditional, off-the-shelf training alone cannot deliver the expectations. We believe a blended-learning approach mixing standard training, custom training, e-learning, coaching, and communities of practice will give the best results and will explain why.

Introduction
Many companies are looking for a higher return on investment on trainings. How often people go off for a few a days to an intercompany/public training event and then come back to work, try to apply what they have learned, and struggle with their own practice or with organizational constraints that might prevent them from implementing best practices, eventually forgetting what they have learned in a matter of months?

Having worked with several customers on organizational changes, we believe that traditional, off-the-shelf training alone cannot deliver the expectations. Why?

First, because at …

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