Business Rationale
"Successful Internet delivered learning immerses one
in the learning experience and provides opportunities
to practice in a safe environment."
Raymond L. Newkirk
Putting Learning and Development on a Business Basis
The Newkirk Group reinvents the Training and Development Organization. Through V-Learning, the focus shifts from training and development as a perk for past behavior to learning and softskills acquisition as a necessity for future performance. In shifting the focus from teacher to learner to learning and ROI, our approach puts learning on a business basis. We ensure that knowledge transfer is enduring rather than situational. In our view, professional training and development must be business oriented, efficiency oriented, reliability oriented, management oriented, productivity oriented, improvement oriented, and mission oriented.
Business Oriented:
- The Newkirk Group is the essential framework and uniform structure which puts professional training on a business basis.
- The Newkirk Group provides the structure within which the business and technical objectives of training and development can be met under continually monitored constraints of time, costs, and market requirements.
Efficiency Oriented:
- The Newkirk Group enhances efficiency by pointing to reduced training support costs.
- The Newkirk Group helps clients measure their training program productivity in terms of the present/future ratio.
Reliability Oriented:
- The Newkirk Group addresses the training problem of the cost/error ratio.
- The Newkirk Group provides a more disciplined training environment that will strengthen training processes, especially in the areas of standards, learning procedures, courseware production, needs forecasting, content development and exchange and I/T support.
Management Oriented:
- The Newkirk Group enables training managers to determine if they are allocating their training resources properly to the early, mid, and late cycles of the training project life cycles.
Productivity Oriented:
- The Newkirk Group enables training managers to measure the trend in the training method/performance ratio.
- The Newkirk Group enables training managers to measure improvements in time and cost estimates which are a part of developing, enhancing, maintaining or improving training functions and the enabled training processes.
- The Newkirk Group enables training managers to define and monitor new measures of performance within the training process.
Improvement Oriented:
- The Newkirk Group is designed to improve the quality of training performance because its is concerned with reliability and strives for maintainability as an approach for building evolutionary and open virtual-learning systems.
- The Newkirk Group is designed to bring continuous improvements in the productivity of training managers and staff via better methods and tools.
- The Newkirk Group seeks increased return on investments (ROI) through better allocation of business, training, and I/T resources.
Mission Oriented:
- The Newkirk Group provides a methodology with a holistic, evolutionary process designed to manage any learning task environment.
- The Newkirk Group provides a learning management methodology that is designed specifically for training program management.
- The Newkirk Group is the standard identifying success toward (a) Business milestones as check points for measuring effectivity and efficiency, and (b) Program milestones as check points for providing restraints which maximize training management reliability.
Our Business Advantage
- The Newkirk Group offers V-Learning support that saves clients millions of dollars in the elimination of up-front sunk costs. We are a quicker, simpler, more responsive, effective, efficient, and less expensive business partner.
- Our Internet Assistant Action Learning process employs specially developed learning content and delivery technology to leverage the power of the Internet to provide attractive cost to profit ratios and ROI in professional learning.
- In Seeking the optimal learning ROI, The Newkirk Group has worked aggressively to integrate its large library of learning content, consisting of thousands of learning modules, with state-of-the-art information technologies and a powerful Learning Management System to form the framework of its powerful Internet Assistant Action Learning architecture.