Your Chief Virtual Learning Architect

Learning to Performance

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Custom Design & Delivery

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Enterprise Learning Strategy

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Dave Basarab Consulting has elevated the training experience, offering an end-to-end comprehensive approach that includes training strategy, instructional design, development, delivery , post program training transfer, and evaluation (via the unique Predictive Evaluation methodology). Virtual Chief Architect Dave Basarab has combined all of these individual training elements with his user-friendly, comprehensive Learning to Performance approach, which significantly increases companies' training ROI.

Why we are different

Innovation: Our primary focus is creating learning programs using a Learning to Performance approach.
Expertise: Dave offers the depth and breadth of his experience, including working internally at prestigious companies (Motorola, Ingersoll Rand and Pitney Bowes) as well as his knowledge and expertise as a highly-respected, sought-after consultant.
Partnership: Basarab collaborates with companies, serving as their own Chief Learning Officer whenever they need to plan, strategize, or implement training initiatives.

Training Services

Enterprise Learning Strategy

Enterprise Learning Strategy

At Dave Basarab Consulting, we're experts in creating Enterprise Learning Plans. We work with you to develop your company's learning strategy and direction.

Custom Design, Development, & Delivery

Custom Design, Development, & Delivery

Custom training is an effective way of developing the capability required to execute your strategy. We are a custom design house that creates programs specific to your business.

Learning Burst Development

Learning Burst Development

We can create and deliver your courses via our unique Learning Burst Method - keeping your employees at their jobs while receiving world-class training.

Predictive Evaluation

Predictive Evaluation

We predict the ROI for your courses and establish success gates. We then evaluate the course against the success gates to show value realized and continually improve results.

Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Turn-key virtual custom leadership development program that combines world-class leadership speakers/educators with post-event personalized coaching to provide you with a cadre of highly skilled leaders.

Predictive Evaluation

Building a content refresh process for changing industries

Building a process to update training content in rapidly changing industries works best when revision is treated as an operating capability, not an occasional rebuild between major launches. Regulatory shifts, new technology and changing customer expectations can leave a course accurate on release but weak within months.

For Australian organisations, the challenge includes distributed teams and sector-specific compliance. A workable approach combines clear ownership, reusable standards, fast publishing and evidence that updated learning is understood and used in daily work.

Establish ownership and decision rights

A refresh process needs named authority across content, compliance and business sponsorship. For national operations spanning Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, a central owner can enforce minimum quality while local subject-matter experts approve examples that reflect regional conditions and workplace realities.

Refresh approach	Strongest use	Decision trigger	Typical result
Calendar-based	Stable material	Scheduled review	Full annual rebuild
Risk-based	Compliance and safety	Material change or risk	Prioritised revision
Continuous	High-use digital content	Feedback and performance signals	Small releases and targeted updates

Decision rules should state who recommends, approves, publishes and retires content. High-risk material, such as safety or regulatory material, should bypass the normal cycle, while lower-risk material can move through quarterly review. Record every approved change so teams can trace which version supports a particular audit, project or workforce need.

Run a predictable content refresh cycle

Regulatory or policy changes
New technology, products or operating processes
Customer or market shifts
Errors, complaints or declining assessment results
Feedback showing that scenarios no longer reflect work

Triage each signal by the harm of outdated content, how quickly the change occurs and how many learners depend on it. Urgent items receive a rapid correction; recurring needs become scheduled rebuilds; stable guidance can move into short microlearning updates. This prevents every request from becoming a full redesign.

A controlled publishing workflow keeps the cycle moving. Maintain a content inventory with an owner, review date, priority, dependencies and version. Store superseded material securely, publish change notices and test accessibility, mobile access and links before release. A learning management system may support these controls, but the process still needs human review.

Close the loop with evidence and feedback

Completion data shows whether people reached the material; it does not establish whether they changed behaviour. Pair usage statistics with knowledge checks, manager observations, application in live work and relevant business indicators. Employee feedback loops can reveal confusing sections and missing examples while the content is still being corrected.

Review evidence at regular intervals rather than waiting for a project retrospective. Predictive evaluation can estimate adoption and likely impact, while focused interviews explain why a module worked or failed. For Australian teams, collect only necessary personal information and handle it in line with the Privacy Act 1988 and Australian Privacy Principles, especially when feedback is linked to individuals.

Equip leaders to turn updates into action

Clear business reasons for change
Conversations about application, not just completion
Coaching for managers and team leaders
Visible reinforcement of new practices
Regular, respectful feedback from learners

Updated content has little value if frontline leaders still reinforce old habits. Leaders need a concise explanation of what changed, why it matters and which observable behaviours should differ. They also need a route for raising implementation problems without waiting for the next course release.

Dave Basarab Consulting’s virtual leadership development service is relevant where managers work across locations, shifts or business units and cannot attend the same live session. A common leadership message, supplemented by local practice examples, creates consistency without ignoring differences between a metropolitan office, a regional site or a mobile workforce.

Localise, govern and activate the next release

Localisation should go beyond spelling and currency. It may involve Australian examples, local legislation, industry vocabulary and scenarios that fit the audience. Financial services teams may need alignment with Australian Prudential Regulation Authority expectations, cyber teams with the Australian Signals Directorate Essential Eight, and aged care providers with the Aged Care Quality Standards.

The review should be consultative: content owners, subject experts, trainers, managers and employee representatives can test relevance together. This supports the practical, consultative style many Australian workplaces expect. Shift-based mining, health and retail teams also need mobile access and short refreshers that can be completed close to the work activity.

The next concrete step is to appoint a named owner for one priority module and schedule its first evidence-based refresh within 30 days.

Learning to Performance

Learning to Performance, a complete training approach, gives companies world-class training to drive significant return. This approach includes upfront work (Impact Mapping, design), training (for staff and company executives), and post-training efforts to ensure training transfer. This unique recipe - the key for successful training and adoption - is changing the way companies implement training. This methodology could work with any content for organizations in any industry.