You made a course!

If only courses fixed everything.

I really wish courses could fix everything! 

But we all know that courses don’t fix everything that the stakeholders requesting training think needs fixing.

What does?

I don’t presume to know. But I do know how we can find out!

We can do some small scale testing within our target audience.

When we can show that something actually makes a measurable difference to the people in our test, then we can scale it up. Even when we can’t show that, we can still ask much better questions, which still leads to delivering better work! That work product may or may not include a course as a deliverable, is all.

I look at it this way:

If I can’t prove that my course works for at least one person in my target audience, I have not yet earned the right to give to anyone else.

Because until then, I’m just scaling up my uncertainty about what it does. And I can’t do anything to provide more certainty with measuring stuff at the end if the baseline wasn’t there to start with.

Given the previous track record of all our collective course packages and learning experiences over the years, it’s safe to assume that the new stuff will be about as effective as the old stuff. Right?

So, until your training can show that it works …let’s just assume that it doesn’t.