Your Chief Virtual Learning Architect

Learning to Performance

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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

Why Custom Training Often Outperforms Off-the-Shelf in Niche Industries

Niche industries operate within specialised environments where small misunderstandings can create safety incidents, compliance breaches, production delays or expensive rework. A generic course may explain broad principles, yet fail to reflect the equipment, terminology, workflows and decisions employees face each day.

This is particularly important in Australia, where organisations may support teams across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and remote regional sites. Mining companies managing FIFO workforces, healthcare providers working within strict clinical standards, and utilities operating across large distances all need learning that reflects the conditions in which capability must be applied.

Generic Content Can Miss Operational Reality

Off-the-shelf training is designed for a broad audience. Its examples, scenarios and assessments must remain general enough to suit many businesses, which can make the material feel disconnected from an employee’s actual role. A warehouse operator, underground supervisor or aged-care team leader may understand the lesson but still be unsure how it applies to their workplace.

Custom learning starts with the organisation’s own processes. It can incorporate local systems, role-specific decisions, internal policies, Australian regulatory expectations and the language employees already use. This reduces the mental effort required to translate theory into action.

For organisations reviewing their broader learning strategy, Dave Basarab Consulting provides support across instructional design, leadership development, training delivery and learning evaluation. That wider perspective helps ensure a course solves a business problem rather than simply filling a calendar.

Relevance Improves Adoption

Employees are more likely to engage when training reflects the pressures they recognise. A scenario about a production handover, a pre-start inspection or a customer escalation becomes more useful when it mirrors the decisions made on site. Relevance also helps managers reinforce the learning during toolbox talks, team meetings and performance conversations.

In Australia, this can mean adapting delivery for shift workers, mobile teams and employees in remote locations. A programme created for a Brisbane office may need a different format for workers travelling between Pilbara sites or operating across Queensland’s regional service network. Customisation allows the content, timing and access method to match those realities.

The Business Case Becomes Easier To Measure

Custom training can be connected to defined operational outcomes, such as fewer quality defects, faster onboarding, improved inspection compliance or stronger frontline leadership. Those measures provide a clearer basis for assessing whether people have adopted the required behaviour and whether the programme is contributing to business performance.

Consideration	Off-the-Shelf Training	Custom Training
Examples	Broad and generic	Based on real workplace situations
Compliance	General interpretation	Aligned with relevant internal and Australian requirements
Delivery	Standard format and pace	Adapted for roles, shifts and locations
Assessment	Tests general knowledge	Checks job-specific capability
Measurement	Often centred on completion	Linked to adoption, impact and business results
Maintenance	Vendor-controlled updates	Organisationally controlled and refinable

A predictive evaluation approach can strengthen this business case by establishing expected results before launch and tracking evidence after implementation. This shifts attention from attendance figures to practical indicators such as behaviour change, productivity and return on investment.

Shorter Learning Can Support Busy Teams

Custom does not have to mean long, expensive courses. In many niche environments, targeted learning bursts are more effective than a single large programme. A short module can address one decision, procedure or skill and fit into a shift pattern without removing employees from essential work for an entire day.

For example, a transport business might use brief modules on fatigue reporting, load restraint or incident escalation. A financial services team could focus on one change to a customer verification process. Learning burst examples show how focused content can provide practical guidance in a compact format.

Short learning also makes reinforcement easier. Managers can revisit a concept before a high-risk task, and employees can access the relevant information close to the moment of need. This supports retention while reducing the disruption associated with traditional classroom-only programmes.

Custom Design Supports Consistent Standards

Niche organisations often need consistency across different locations without ignoring local circumstances. A custom programme can establish a shared standard for critical behaviours while allowing examples and practice activities to reflect the work performed at each site.

This is valuable for Australian employers with teams spread across states, contractors and regional operations. A national organisation may need one leadership framework, but supervisors in Melbourne, Darwin and Perth could face different labour markets, customer expectations and operational conditions. Custom design can preserve the common framework while making the learning credible to each audience.

It also helps subject-matter experts contribute without turning training into a collection of technical documents. Skilled instructional design translates specialist knowledge into clear decisions, practice opportunities and feedback, making the content easier to use under pressure.

Investment Should Be Judged By Results

The price of a licence can make off-the-shelf training appear attractive, but initial cost is only one part of the calculation. If employees disengage, managers cannot relate the content to daily work, or the course fails to address the real performance gap, the organisation may pay for completion without gaining capability.

Custom training is most valuable when it begins with a precise diagnosis. Leaders should identify the business outcome, the behaviour that needs to change, the people affected and the evidence that will demonstrate progress. This prevents unnecessary content and directs investment towards the decisions that matter.

The practical takeaway is to choose custom learning when context, risk or performance expectations are distinctive. Map the critical workplace behaviours, build realistic practice around them, and measure adoption alongside business outcomes so training becomes an operating asset rather than a standalone event.

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.