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Eliminate the Doubt

Present quantifiable proof that validates training program success.

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Tue Jul 01 2025

A detective's evidence board. But instead of criminal case notes, the board has notepaper reading "Why"; a pie chart; a certificate; Polaroid photos of a facilitator, two people talking at a computer, a person holding a completed checklist, and three team members celebrating a win; a bar graph with a dot plot; a circled question mark; a smiley-face chart with unhappy to happy faces; a circled word, "How" on a note; five-, four-, and three-star ratings with five stars checked; a line graph with a news article overlapping that says "Success!" and features an image of an upward trending graph; a bar chart; a badge with a star on it; and a paper that says "Result." Most of the items are connected by red string.
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I remember the day the vice president of HR called our L&D team into a meeting to discuss some of our training programs. Prior to that, my manager and I had been running several multicourse programs that received glowing feedback from participants. When we walked into the room, we assumed the meeting was about strategy for the upcoming year. But instead, the VP started asking us questions about the results of the programs we were facilitating.

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