Take Time Now To Reflect and Redirect

I LOVE SPRING!  Like most people, it's my favorite time of year.  Everywhere I look I see new blooms and new growth on trees and plants as the world springs back to life after winter.  It always makes me feel so good and I can see everyone's mood improve.  Everything that had been dormant and "dead" springs back to life and I get re-energized.

So what does this have to do with HR, and learning transfer in particular?  I think we can all take a clue from mother nature and use this time to renew our professional practice and give birth to new and better ways to do things.  Much like trees that drop their leaves and then are reborn, mother nature is reminding us of the tremendous power of rejuvenating our professional practice periodically.

I believe that one area of renewal that should be top of your list is learning transfer.  Imagine for a minute what would happen if you doubled the amount of your training that transfers into job performance change. Imagine what impact it would have on your organization.  Imagine how good you would feel.

Doubling your transfer rate is not a pie-in-the-sky dream.  It really is doable.  But to do so we have to do like mother nature does and throw out old practices that don't work and grow new ones in their place.  As I write this I am looking out my window at a tall oak tree that has no problem with losing its leaves every year and growing back stronger every spring.  Is there a lesson in there for us humans?

Make spring your time to redirect and renew your professional practice. Make it your time to get serious about learning transfer.