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If surgeons use checklists EB Managers have no excuse

How wrong can an assumption be? My piece last week assumed that those doyens of evidence-based practice – surgeons – always get the basics right, only to read 5 days later (in a fascinating article) that even they have to Read the Rest » Read...

Published 27 Apr 2011 11:46 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Solutions, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Atul Gawande, EBM checklist, Surgery safety checklist, WHO
Evaluation of learning – 3 simple rules of the game

When is a profession not a profession? When it fails to follow its own professional advice. Imagine a surgeon saying – ‘Yes, I know the operating theatre should be a sterile environment but hey, what are a few bacteria among Read the Rest » Read...

Published 20 Apr 2011 3:50 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, training evaluation
Managers with ‘ODD’ attitudes do not get EBM

One of the many aspects of human behaviour that I have never been able to fathom is the ‘polar shift’ – moving from one extreme position to another without any rational explanation. Anyone who has children will have witnessed it. Read the Rest »...

Published 14 Apr 2011 9:43 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: PwC, Saratoga, EBHR Solutions, EB Product Testing Lab, Accenture, control groups, double blind, oppositional defiance disorder, proving a negative, randomised trials
Is there any ROI in ‘learning’ technology?

How times have changed – or maybe not? Having just spoken (Wednesday 6th) at the CIPD’s large, annual, event - ‘HRD 2011’ – on the topic of ‘How accurate and necessary is ROI for L&D?’ (based on my 2005 CIPD Read the Rest » Read More.....

Published 8 Apr 2011 10:38 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Solutions, learning, ROI, training evaluation
EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 7 – ROI it

I did warn you in Lesson 1 that this series would not offer a simple sequence. So why does ‘ROI’ (return on investment) follow on from Vision? Well it doesn’t have to but considering ROI is an essential discipline for Read the Rest » Read More.....

Published 8 Apr 2011 10:22 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, ROI, cost benefit, learning investment
HR playing the Fool

It was so tempting to write an April Fool’s piece today but instead I opted for a history lesson on the HR department. In case you were still wondering, this is not a site for HR people – or at Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 1 Apr 2011 12:08 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, PwC, EBHR Solutions, HBR, Dave Ulrich, CIPD, Barry Curnow, Geoff Armstrong, IPM, Richard Pascale, ROI, SHRM, Thomas Stewart

April 2011 - Evidence-Based HR

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If surgeons use checklists EB Managers have no excuse

Evaluation of learning – 3 simple rules of the game

Managers with ‘ODD’ attitudes do not get EBM

Is there any ROI in ‘learning’ technology?

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 7 – ROI it

HR playing the Fool