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Wisdom for Wildly Enhanced
Learning & Performance
Utilizing Research Insights to Ensure Client Success Since 1998
Will's Blog
W-L Research
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Welcome |
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Hello! This is Dr. Will Thalheimer. Since founding Work-Learning Research in 1998, my goal has been to help my clients maximize the effectiveness of their learning interventions and learning environments, while also working to improve our field. I do this by exhaustively compiling research from the world's preeminent refereed journals and translating that research with practical wisdom. Through my speaking engagements, workshops, learning audits, and consulting, I help enlightened clients build world-class learning programs. I can help your organization build wildly more effective learning. My recent work includes a full work-learning audit of a software-training ecosystem, a new learning-landscape model, and new learning-evaluation work. Feel free to call me at 617-666-9637 to see if I might be able to help your organization build better learning.
Will Thalheimer, PhD |
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Neon Elephant Award |
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The 2009 Neon Elephant Award is given this year to Ruth Clark for her many years in leading the workplace learning-and-performance field with research-based insights and recommendations, and—by so doing—helping to professionalize our field. In addition to her lifetime of work, she is honored this year for the 3rd edition of her excellent book, published just a little over a year ago, Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement. Although this is said to be the 3rd edition, the research cited is fresh and up-to-date. This book may be Ruth’s masterwork. It covers a wide swath of the learning research. It’s written by a research translator at the height of her powers. It’s a must-read (and must-study) for everyone in the field of workplace learning-and-performance.
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Free Research |
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Research helps us make better learning-design decisions. Every year I read over 200 research articles from the world's preeminent refereed journals on learning, memory, and instruction. I compile the findings into research reports that provide practical advice. While I used to sell my research reports from 2002 to 2008, I now give them all away for free. |
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Brown Bag Learning |
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Note that I am available as a skilled, engaging, and deniably gorgeous webinar presenter. Contact me through my email address to learn more. |
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Measuring Learning |
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Several years ago, I began to explore "learning measurement" because I was sure that measurement was a critical leverage point in our learning-and-performance practices. While others continue with tired, inadequate measurement traditions, I've done the hard work to bring new research-based insight to bear on measurement. The secret is grounding our measurement practices in the fundamentals of human learning. Let me help you build better measurement solutions or a more complete understanding. Check out my paradigm-changing research-to-practice report, "Measuring Learning Success." It's not just some silly commercial whitepaper. It's authentic, research-based intelligence that will change the way you think about learning measurement. Give me a call to learn more about consulting with me or bringing me in for a workshop. 617-666-9637. |
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Learning Audits |
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It's always a good idea to get an outside, unbiased perspective― especially when that perspective is based on years of practical experience and wisdom drawn from 12 years compiling research from the world's pre-eminent refereed journals on learning, memory, and performance. My learning audits take many forms, from quick-and-dirty analyses of your learning programs or learning designs, to in-depth analyses of your workplace learning environment, benchmarking your learning interventions against the research-based best practices. Or you can take it even further with control-group studies that can help you prove your effectiveness. Give me a call to learn more at 617-666-9637. Or contact me at my email address. |
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