The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results, 3rd Edition

DRIVE LEARNING TRANSFER

“Learning may be a means of achieving the performance results, but it is not the end.”

—HAROLD STOLOVITCH

FOR CORPORATE LEARNING INITIATIVES to create value, employees have to transfer what they learned to their work roles in ways that improve individual and organizational performance. Learning itself—no matter how insightful, stimulating, and motivational—is scrap unless it is put to work. Unless employees answer both “Yes, I can” and “Yes, I will apply what I learned to my work,” the time, effort, and resources invested in learning go to waste.

That is why the Fourth Discipline practiced by the most effective learning ...