What if you were successful only 15% of the time? Would you continue working in that line of work? Here is an example from the book The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results* by Calhoun Wick, Roy Pollock, and Andrew Jefferson, what if FedEx only got 15% of their packages to their destinations on time... would you consider FedEx successful? Probably not, yet, typical corporate training departments only have a 15% success rate for participants applying what they learned to the job. Read more ( )

A fantastic help for a training company like mine, Vervago, that is developing trainings that extend beyond face-to-face workshop instruction. We are committed to helping our workshop participants use what they learn in our Precision Questioning workshop to transform how they do their work, increasing their decision-making and problem-solving abilities and making their meetings more efficient. This book helped me see many ways to do that. I also took their one-day workshop and would recommend it for any company wanting to make sure their training investments were yielding business results. ( )