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By Kelly Cave and Madison Hanscom Training is an effective way for companies to facilitate knowledge and skill development in their employees, which in turn, helps them remain competitive in their respective markets. The extent to which knowledge and skills learned in training are used on-the-job is commonly referred to as training transfer (1). Unfortunately, studies indicate that significant amounts of training content do not end up transferring to the job (2). This lack of transfer is a major concern, in large part because companies spend significant amounts of money on training. According to the Association for Talent Development, each year

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By Eric Johnson When our organization engages clients, one of the first steps we perform in our assessments centers around establishing a baseline regarding the safety culture climate within the organization at all levels. These questions center around elements such as “What is the overall view of safety within the organization?”; “How do employees react to injuries – both to themselves and to others?”; “How does safety messaging impact employees”. The answers to these questions often depend on both the current safety climate but also historical data. Within the conversational aspect of our assessments, we often come across a common theme

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By Eric Johnson One of the biggest elements of a good safety program is the ability of employees to feel free to both own their safety to protect themselves from hazards and to then report safety incidents, close calls, as they happen within the workplace. Within groups that exhibit private compliance and higher maturities, the workforce feels comfortable and duty-oriented to enforce safety. But as we all know, safety is a journey, not a destination, and elements of a safety culture can quickly erode if not deliberately maintained. The canary in the coal mine for a decline in safety culture is the

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By Martin Royal Ensuring you have an effective training transfer strategy is fundamental to get the most out of your training investment. In Part 1 of this 4-part blog series on training transfer, I introduced various strategies that trainees can adopt to help themselves apply what they learned to their work. Part 2 focuses on ideas that leaders can put in place to improve transfer of learning with their teams. In our Safe Production Model, this is the dimension we refer to as Interpersonal dimensions. The Interpersonal dimension covers the aspects of the training transfer strategies that exist between individuals and focus on

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By Martin Royal It's been well established that training initiatives often result in a limited transfer of new knowledge back into the workplace. While you'll commonly hear that only 10% of what employees learn is implemented, this figure is actually closer to an average of 47%. According to a study done by Saks & Belcourt (2006), almost half of the information gained through training, by members of a training and development society, found its way into the workplace within a year of training. In any case, what this suggests is that the majority of training investment dollars don’t actually result in

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