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12 Questions to Use When Defining the Performance Gap

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12 Questions to Use When
Defining the Performance Gap

Trainers in our 4MAT instructional design courses often share that they get requests for content, rather than outcomes. Before you begin to determine what content should be included in an instructional design, there are two things you need to know: what is the outcome you are tasked with generating and what shift in learner behavior will produce it. 

Analyzing the issue with key stakeholders, you can mutually define the desired outcomes of the training course you are tasked with designing. A stakeholder may be the manager or leader which requests training, a senior level executive who assesses the value of the training or any influencer who evaluates budgeting for your area of accountability. The right questions will guide the needs analysis conversation and lead to the identification of the performance gap and the four critical outcomes which will help you bridge this gap. Gaining a mutual definition of success for your training program will guide development.


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Step-by-step approach to conducting training needs analysis, facilitating subject-matter expert interviews, defining clear learning outcomes and designing concept-based instructional design.

Learn how to confidently lead the training needs analysis and outcome development process. Establish your credibility as a strategic performance development partner using the 4MAT performance analysis tools and outcomes framework that deliver measurable training ROI.

  • Identify the four critical learning outcomes that must be defined
  • Use the Question Inventory to guide the training needs analysis conversation with key stakeholders
  • Craft clear outcome statements which will guide the design process
  • Assess the performance shift needed to deliver the desired behavior result
  • Analyze which of the 4 Performance Barriers is linked to the successful transfer of learning
  • Understand the 4MAT® basic design framework
  • Recognize how the four critical outcomes link to the design model
  • Conduct effective Subject-Matter-Expert Interviews
  • Identify the “Concept” that high performers get and learn how to transfer it to low performers
  • Identify the types of activities that work best to deliver each of the four outcomes
  • Filter content and activity choice by focusing on the critical “Performance Barrier”
  • Assess the impact of your training design using the 4MAT® design rubric
  • Review design samples created by fellow participants
  • Analyze and refine your design for higher impact with particular emphasis on Kirkpatrick’s Level 3 (Behavior) and Level 4 evaluation (Business Impact)


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Inform: 10 Activity Frameworks for Increasing Interactivity in Lecture

June 14, 2011 | 3 pm Central

75-minute web session | $79

Who should attend: Instructional Designers and Trainers
In Step 4, Inform, the trainer shares the information the learner must know to generate the desired learning outcomes. This is typically where the trainer lectures. However, lecture isn’t all talk. How do we make lecture interactive and engaging? In this session, we will explore 10 structures for increasing interactivity. Structures are activity frameworks that can be used with any content. Structures may be planned in the leader guide or used spontaneously, as needed.

 

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