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... 71 to go. So I have my first play with live ammo today; a training room full of guinea pigs on whom I shall inflict questionnaire number one. So what's the plan? Basically, I'm planning to take several groups of university staff doing IT training courses, give follow-up phone coaching to half and see what difference it makes. Essentially it will therefore be a study into the effectiveness of distance coaching on transfer of training. As far as I know, there's only one existing, formal study that's looked at using coaching like this, but that was with groups and discussion boards. I'm going to be doing 1-1 phone coaching supported by a desktop sharing tool, so it's a form of eCoaching.

Part of the study is also going to be looking at whether pre- and post- training support from managers and colleagues makes a significant difference to the coaching so today's trial questionnaire will be all about that. Once today's session is done I'll be getting pretty quickly into doing the coaching - which I'm really looking forward to - and the trials proper starting next week. Two of the groups will be doing an Excel course delivered by one of my team, two will be doing 'Advanced Personal Productivity' delivered by yours truly. What could possibly go wrong...

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