Your Chief Virtual Learning Architect

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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

Forecasting Vendor Adoption With Predictive Evaluation

Picking a training partner in Australia has become harder than ever, with the VET sector under ASQA scrutiny, hybrid workforces stretching from Perth to the Pilbara, and L&D budgets getting a serious dose of reality before approval. Most buying decisions still rest on glossy content libraries, polished demo sessions, and a slick sales pitch that sounds great in a CBD boardroom.

The smarter move is to forecast how the program will actually land on the job. Predictive Evaluation offers a structured way to score vendors on the metric that matters most: the likelihood that employees will use what they learn. It shifts the conversation from "what's in the deck" to "what will change on the floor."

Why Adoption Is the Only Outcome That Counts

Completion reports fill the usual sense like nothing else, yet a course can be 100% completed and still ignored on Monday morning. In a country where skills gaps show up in everything from FIFO safety inductions in the Pilbara to NDIS workforce training in Western Sydney, capability only counts when it travels from the workshop back to the desk. Vendor pitches often chase completion percentages, but completion is not adoption, and the gap between the two is where most training budgets quietly vanish.

Predictive Evaluation zeroes in on the conditions that drive sustained behaviour change: manager reinforcement, workflow fit, and learner motivation. Vendors who design for those conditions from the start typically outperform those who bolt them on later. That is why custom programs that start with business outcomes outperform off-the-shelf offerings that quietly land on asset shelves.

A Shared Yardstick for Vendor Comparison

Forecasting only gets useful when every vendor runs through the same instrument. Predictive Evaluation scores each proposal on the same dimensions, which lets you put competing vendors side by side without the usual apples-versus-oranges problem. The comparison below shows how the approach stacks up against common alternatives.

Approach	What it measures	Adoption signal	Bias risk
Reference checks	Past client impressions	Low	High — best friends win
Demo sessions	Polished delivery	Low	High — best deck wins
Pilot programs	Behaviour at end of pilot	Medium	Medium — Hawthorne effect
Predictive Evaluation	Likely use across the workforce	High	Low — structured scoring

The structure makes clear why a shared instrument beats gut feel. Reference checks lean on the vendor's best friends, demos show their best deck, and pilots often capture the Hawthorne glow of being watched. Predictive Evaluation pulls back from the theatre and scores the structural conditions for adoption rather than the polish of the pitch.

Reading Vendor Forecasts Through an Australian Lens

Forecasting adoption in Australia means accounting for a few local realities. State government procurement teams in Victoria and Queensland often weight vendor proposals heavily on local criteria, while private employers lean on national priorities. Workforces span remote mine sites, suburban hospitals, and CBD corporate floors, each with their own cultural rhythm and time pressures.

A forecast that ignores those rhythms will mislead. The strongest vendors map learning moments to the way Australians actually work: short bursts that slot between site walks and shift handovers, content that handles rosters in Western Sydney, and language that reflects local workplace culture, direct and down-to-earth rather than overly corporate. Australian workplaces tend to run flatter hierarchies than many overseas markets, so approval chains move faster and frontline input carries real weight.

Workflow Integration That Lands Daily Work

Several indicators consistently move a vendor's adoption score upward or downward. Look for these workflow signals before signing a purchase order in the Australian market.

Workflow integration plans that show exactly how learning will land inside daily routines, like the methods described in embedding learning into workflows.
Manager toolkits with conversation scripts, observation guides, and a follow-up cadence built in.
Local content examples drawn from workplaces, train stations, and toolboxes that Australian learners actually recognise.
Measurement plans that track sustained behaviour change at 30, 60, and 90 days rather than smiley sheets at the end.
Co-design sessions that include frontline employees and union representatives where relevant.

Signals That Cluster in Successful Partnerships

The next set of indicators reveals how vendors operate once partnership is in place, the things that separate a transaction from a true working relationship.

Transparent reporting on what previous campaign data said versus what actually happened on the floor.
Named account leads with decision rights, not junior account managers who escalate every call.
Quarterly business reviews tied to adoption metrics, not just sequence of completed modules.
Openness to dropping scope that drags the adoption score down, as captured in successful vendor partnerships.
Local references from comparable workplaces, ideally one in your state and one in a similar industry.

From Forecast to Confirmed Rollout

A forecast is only useful if it changes the decision. Once Predictive Evaluation scores are in, the next concrete step is to share them with the shortlisted vendors and ask each one how they would lift the weaker scores. The best responses will treat the scorecard as a working document, while weaker ones will defend the deck. Book a 60-minute working session with the top two scorers this week, hand each one the scorecard, and require a written response within five working days that names the changes they will make and the adoption lift they will commit to.

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.