Posts by christensenbd
Just because it says performance doesn’t mean it’s there (sadly)
As a professional in the field of performance and learning, it is important for me to continually learn and to give back. To do that – in part – I have been a long time member of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) and the Institute for Performance and Learning (I4PL) – previously the…
Read MoreTask Analysis or “How DO you do that?”
Getting to the bottom of all the skills knowledge and other attributes to complete a task is a skill in itself. Here’s a video that shows how to do it.
Read MorePerformance Focused Smile Sheets: Applied
How many training sessions have you gone to where you received a one sheet evaluation form that asked you to rate your instructor, the course, the room, the chair and the snacks provided at ten a.m.? There IS a better way!
Read MoreCanada’s favourite coffee – why the shift?
On the 22nd of October 2017, MSN Money reported that McDonald’s McCafe Coffee is now Canada’s favourite coffee chain. Tim Horton’s, which I think most people would assume to be the front runner in this contest was FOURTH! Second Cup and Starbucks were second and third respectively. In 2014, Canadian Business reported that Timmies was…
Read MoreMultiple Generations in the Workplace
Do we really need to treat Millennials different than Boomers? Of course not! I’ll explain why
Read MoreFeedback: It’s all it cracked up to be!
A lot has been said on the topic of feedback. Google will give you about 2,070,000,000 results in 0.82 seconds. There are different kinds and different definitions… my interest is in the realm of workplace performance which is defined as “the transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the…
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