
The Training Trap
Why does "we need training" show up as the answer to almost every organizational problem — even when the real issue is a broken process, an unclear policy, or a leadership decision nobody wants to name? In the second epi

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Why does "we need training" show up as the answer to almost every organizational problem — even when the real issue is a broken process, an unclear policy, or a leadership decision nobody wants to name? In the second epi

How much does an organization spend on training every year — and how much of that spend actually changes performance? In the first episode of a new series walking through the full Kirkpatrick Model, Vanessa Milara Alzate

Coaching is having a moment — the market has grown more than 60% since 2019, and a third of Fortune 500 companies are now paying for executive coaching. But when most leaders are asked whether their coaching program is a

Few people have watched the Kirkpatrick Model travel across as many organizations as Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick. Founder of Kirkpatrick Partners, steward of the model for 16 years, and the author of the foreword to Vanessa

Vanessa Milara Alzate is watching the World Cup a little differently this year — and she wants you to, too. In this solo episode of The Kirkpatrick Podcast, Vanessa uses three very different national teams to make a case

In this episode of The Kirkpatrick Podcast, Vanessa sits down in person with Jawad Ahmed, a longtime Kirkpatrick Partners affiliate and director at C2C in India, for a candid conversation about how the Kirkpatrick Model

Most organizations are confident they have data. Loads of it. But in this episode of the Kirkpatrick Podcast, Vanessa sits down with psychometrician and data-analytics professor Dr. Anna Lissitz to ask the uncomfortable

Everyone says they're behind on AI. According to Myra Roldan, Chief AI Officer of UnDesto AI, if everyone's behind, then no one really is — and that hype is costing organizations real money. In this episode, Vanessa sits

Ask executives whether they act on the feedback they get from employees, and 85 to 95% will say absolutely. Ask the frontline the same question, and the score drops by 30 to 50 points. That gap is the heart of this episo

In this episode of The Kirkpatrick Podcast, Vanessa sits down with Ted Kniker — co-founder of IMPACT Paradigm Associates, former Chief of Evaluation at the U.S. Department of State, and contributing author to Raising Ame

In this episode of the Kirkpatrick Podcast, Vanessa Milara Alzate makes a bold claim: your evaluation efforts aren't failing because of your model, your data, or your people. They're failing because of your system. Vanes

AI is forcing a difficult but necessary question for learning and development leaders: if knowledge is now instant, searchable, and increasingly automated, where does L&D create value? For years, many organizations built

Most organizations say they want better measurement. They invest in tools, dashboards, and surveys. They ask their L&D teams to prove impact. And yet, nothing really changes. Programs still get evaluated based on complet

Most organizations do not have an evaluation problem. They have an ownership problem. Evaluation often begins with one committed L&D leader, analyst, or internal champion who asks better questions, pushes for stronger da

Many organizations say they value evaluation. What they often mean is that they send surveys, track completion, and produce dashboards. That may create visibility, but it rarely creates better decisions. And when data co

Most organizations don't have an innovation problem. They have a clarity problem. Leaders push for speed. Teams launch new initiatives. Metrics are reported. Dashboards fill up. And yet, one critical question remains una

Most organizations believe evaluation fails because they don't have the right tools, data, or capability. But the real failure point is much higher. Evaluation breaks when leaders continue to treat it as reporting instea

Too many organizations say they want better evaluation, stronger learning impact, and clearer evidence of business value. Then they make one critical mistake: they assign the work to a single motivated person and hope th

Organizations rarely struggle because they lack data. They struggle because the data they have cannot tell a coherent story. Across large enterprises, teams measure success in different ways. One department tracks engage

Most organizations believe they have a culture of evaluation. They run surveys. They build dashboards. They report metrics. And yet performance stays flat. In this episode, we challenge a dangerous misconception: measure
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