New Year, New Look! Happy New Year and welcome back! Each year many of us choose to make new year’s goals or resolutions. At Synapsys one of our New Year’s goals was to refresh our website. Unlike our goal to give up sugar, which was thrown out the window by 2pm on the 2nd, our website is live now! Check out the new site here! We will continue to improve and refresh the site overtime to keep it relevant. We welcome your feedback about what you would find useful on the site, in the newsletter and our social media feeds. The first 10 people to take two minutes to respond to a few questions about what you want to hear about from us will be sent two movie passes. ENTER TO WIN HERE! Getting buy-in for measuring learning impactPhil Garing, Synapsys Director I recently attended a webinar presented by Andy Webb from Applied.com on getting buy-in from your boss for learning measurement/ analytics projects. It’s worth a look here if you have time. If not, here are a few of my takeaways… Of course, your programme should be designed around your organisation’s KPIs, and you should measure impact on them. But don’t just go from the strategy document. Executives have their own take on what they mean, their own motivations, needs and priorities. Take the time to get to know what they are. You’ll build engagement and commitment to your project, it’ll help frame your thinking on the solution, and you’ll measure more relevant 'stuff'. But leaders often aren’t clear about how and what to measure. Few have backgrounds in learning analytics. Do your homework, frame up what you can report and connect it to the KPIs. Test your thinking with them before you start. Most conversations are around ROI after programme, measured at a holistic level. Actually, small, measurable incremental improvements by learners during the programme are really important, and can be easier to capture. Plan to focus on this as you go, don’t treat evaluation as an end game. Introducing...Our TeamFind out more about some of the Synapsys team now on YouTube by catching our regular video interviews! Watch the latest below... L & D Measurement Market SnapshotWondering what's happening in the L&D measurement space as you look at the year ahead? Here's a great L&D market snapshot with a couple of interesting snippets from Corporate Learning Analytics. |