A Note from Barbara:

Hi, I’m Barbara Carnes, President of Carnes and Associates. For over twenty-five years I have designed, developed, and conducted workplace learning and worked with trainers and HR professionals.  I know first-hand the challenges and the rewards involved with helping people learn job-related skills, and the frustration that comes when the training is good – but it doesn’t stick.  That’s why my late colleague Dora Johnson and I pioneered training transfer when we wrote the now-classic book Making Training Stick™, and the companion Making Training Stick™: A Training Transfer Field Guide (Second Edition Now Available!), to provide Techniques to Integrate Education (TIEs) to link learning back to the job.  I have continued with another book, Making Learning Stick™, that has more information and new TIEs for trainers, instructional designers, managers of learning and development, and HR professionals.

The purpose of this website is to provide support for those of you who are interested in increasing the transfer of training in your organizations.  Sign up for Sticky Notes, my free monthly e-newsletter providing tips and ideas to increase the training of your training.  Take a look at the free icebreakers, closers, and other materials for trainers.  Purchase my books right here on this site, singly or in a convenient 3-book set.  Also, new in the store – Boss Bookmarks – to let trainees’ managers know how they can support the learning.

Take a look at Sticky Workshops --  in-depth training on training transfer and other train-the-trainer topics, available in half-day, full-day or 60-90 minute formats.

Please look around at these resources and let us hear from you.