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		<title>What is a Needs Assessment? &#8211; Part 4</title>
		<link>http://performancemonkey.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/what-is-a-needs-assessment-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 3-Phase Needs Assessment Process &#8211; Implementation and Reporting Phases [My notes on this topic rely heavily on the work of both Ingrid Guerra-Lopez and Roger Kaufman, grateful acknowledgment is made to both.] Let&#8217;s continue with our example of conducting a needs assessment at Mo&#8217;s restaurant. Planning Implementation Reporting A)     Identify and meet with stakeholders: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=82&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Needs Assessment? – Part 3</title>
		<link>http://performancemonkey.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/what-is-a-needs-assessment-%e2%80%93-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 3-Phase Needs Assessment Process [My notes on this topic rely heavily on the work of both Ingrid Guerra-Lopez and Roger Kaufman, grateful acknowledgment is made to both.] With the previous two posts as a conceptual backdrop, let&#8217;s dive in to a great real-world process for conducting a sound, robust needs assessment. Ingrid Guerra-Lopez has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=79&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Needs Assessment? &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://performancemonkey.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/what-is-a-needs-assessment-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Needs Assessment vs. Needs Analysis, and the OEM [My notes on this topic rely heavily on the work of both Ingrid Guerra-Lopez, and Roger Kaufman, acknowledgment is made to both.] Needs assessment and needs analysis &#8211; there is a great deal of confusion between these two closely related concepts.  This close relationship has in part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=70&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Needs Assessment? &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://performancemonkey.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/what-is-a-needs-assessment-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next several blogs, I’ll discuss the much confused, often maligned, and generally undervalued topic of the needs assessment.  Over the next few weeks I’ll start out with some conceptual stuff, then I’ll move on to a nice 3-stage needs assessment model to utilize to conduct a sound needs assessment.  My notes on this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=66&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dances with Cognitive Load Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the aspects of cognitive psychology that has had profound effects on my approach to instructional design is Cognitive Load Theory, primarily the work of John Sweller,  Jeroen van Merrienboer, and Fred Paas. Basically, Cognitive Load Theory speculates that there are three key elements that need to be considered in the ID process as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=61&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steak and Sizzle: Market Thyself</title>
		<link>http://performancemonkey.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/steak-and-sizzle-market-thyself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My company recently piloted a full-day seminar for automotive dealerships to help them increase their business. The focus, however, was not on vehicle sales as one might suspect. Rather, the real need was on the “back-end” of the business – getting customers in for service and keeping them coming back. Somewhat surprisingly, the hottest topic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=43&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting a Stake in the Ground</title>
		<link>http://performancemonkey.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/putting-a-stake-in-the-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a client who had very limited time and very conflicting needs from a vast, and often mis-aligned, field network. What to do? Put a stake in the ground, that&#8217;s what. This means moving forward with the full intention of changing direction along the way. For example, by studying hard and doing my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=26&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Art of Consultancy</title>
		<link>http://performancemonkey.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/the-lost-art-of-consultancy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>solobill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lyman Bryson in an article titled &#8220;Notes on a Theory of Advice&#8221; (1951) suggested that one of the oldest human occurrences is the giving of advice. Everyone knows the axiom “advice is like [body part/function], everybody’s got [one / some]”; the abstract generalizations most likely made in Paleolithic times about advice-giving are still true, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=37&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Your Eyes on the Ball</title>
		<link>http://performancemonkey.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/keep-your-eyes-on-the-ball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As performance improvement professionals, we are constantly challenged to look beyond the many processes, theories, and deliverables that most of us deal with on a daily basis and to describe specifically what we offer to achieving the business goals of the companies that give us our daily bread.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=performancemonkey.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8327146&amp;post=8&amp;subd=performancemonkey&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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