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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Predictive Evaluation

How Predictive Evaluation Helps You Scale Training Without Losing Quality

Scaling corporate training is rarely a matter of adding more sessions to the calendar. As learner populations grow, organizations must preserve instructional consistency, support local relevance, and prove that development efforts are changing workplace performance.

Predictive Evaluation provides a structured way to manage that complexity. It connects learner intention, adoption, behavior change, business outcomes, and return on investment so leaders can identify risks before a large rollout consumes time and budget.

For organizations building a sustainable learning ecosystem, learning consultancy services can bring together enterprise learning strategy, custom instructional design, leadership development, and measurement. The result is a training operation designed to expand with control rather than scale through guesswork.

Replace Volume With A Scalable Learning System

A high-volume training program needs more than a library of courses. It requires clear performance goals, common design standards, reliable delivery channels, and a governance model that defines who owns content, facilitation, technology, and evaluation.

A scalable system separates what must remain consistent from what can be adapted. Core messages, practice standards, assessment criteria, and manager expectations should be stable, while examples, language, and delivery formats can reflect different roles or regions. This balance protects quality without forcing every audience through an identical experience.

Predict Quality Before Full Deployment

Traditional evaluation often waits until learners complete a program before asking whether it worked. That timing makes it difficult to correct weak adoption, confusing content, or limited manager support before the investment is already committed.

Predictive Evaluation moves critical questions earlier. Teams can examine whether employees intend to use the training, whether the work environment supports application, and whether leaders have defined the desired business result. Early signals make it possible to pilot, refine, and prioritize before expanding to thousands of employees.

The intention evaluation model is especially useful because stated intent can reveal likely adoption while there is still time to improve relevance, confidence, reinforcement, or access. It does not replace outcome measurement; it strengthens the decisions that lead to those outcomes.

Connect Learning Activity To Business Results

Training volume can create an illusion of progress. Attendance, completion rates, and assessment scores are useful operational indicators, yet they do not establish whether people apply new skills or whether the organization benefits.

A measurement architecture should connect each level of evidence to the next. For example, participation may support knowledge gain, knowledge may support workplace behavior, and behavior may influence productivity, quality, safety, customer retention, or leadership effectiveness.

Evaluation Focus Scaling Risk Predictive Signal Quality Response
Learner intention Low commitment or relevance Willingness to apply skills Refine positioning and examples
Program adoption Uneven participation Manager support and access Improve sponsorship and delivery
Skill application Knowledge stays in the classroom Confidence and opportunity to practice Add coaching and job aids
Business impact Outcomes are unclear Link between behavior and metrics Define owners and evidence sources

When these relationships are documented, learning leaders can distinguish a delivery problem from a content problem or a workplace barrier. That precision helps them spend improvement resources where they will have the greatest effect.

Preserve Consistency Across Delivery Channels

Instructor-led workshops, virtual classrooms, self-paced courses, learning bursts, and performance support can all contribute to a single capability strategy. Quality declines when each channel communicates different expectations or uses unrelated practice methods.

A shared blueprint helps instructional designers and facilitators maintain alignment. It can specify learning objectives, essential concepts, realistic scenarios, practice requirements, accessibility standards, and evaluation points. Delivery teams gain flexibility while learners receive a coherent experience.

Quality assurance should continue after launch. Facilitator observations, learner feedback, usage data, and manager input can identify drift between the intended design and the experience employees actually receive. Regular calibration keeps a distributed training network dependable.

Use Early Evidence To Guide Investment

Predictive evidence supports better portfolio decisions. Programs showing strong intent and clear operational support may be ready for wider deployment, while programs with weak signals may need redesigned content, stronger sponsorship, or a narrower audience.

This approach also helps leaders compare initiatives using consistent criteria. Rather than approving programs because they are popular or urgent, decision-makers can examine expected adoption, implementation conditions, measurement feasibility, and business relevance.

  • Define the workplace behavior before selecting the course format.
  • Test learner intention and manager support during the pilot phase.
  • Establish baseline business measures before broad deployment.
  • Use common design and facilitation standards across locations.
  • Review evidence at scheduled decision points, not only after completion.

Make Scale A Deliberate Business Capability

Organizations can scale training without losing quality when evaluation is built into design, governance, delivery, and improvement. Predictive Evaluation gives stakeholders a shared language for discussing readiness, adoption, behavior change, and value before problems become expensive.

The next step is to review a priority learning initiative through this lens. Map its intended business result, identify the behaviors that support it, assess adoption conditions, and create a measurement plan that can guide both the pilot and the full rollout. Dave Basarab Consulting can help turn that analysis into a practical learning strategy with measurable business impact.

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.

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