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The Point of Training Isn’t Training
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The Point of Training Isn’t Training

It's improved performance.

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Duane Lester
Apr 10, 2025
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“The purpose of training is to improve performance.”
— Bob Pike

If you’ve ever sat through a training that felt disconnected from your real work, you’ve experienced the result of a backward design. Too often, we begin with content. We start building slides. We pick out an icebreaker or two. Then somewhere along the way, we ask ourselves: “What are we hopi…

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