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It’s generally believed that to become better at something one must do it often. Just learning about it isn’t enough. That is why we repeatedly practice a behavior to learn and eventually master a skill. And while practice is crucial, it alone isn’t enough. Feedback is also needed to reinforce learning, address gaps, and motivate improvement. In fact, without feedback, learners can develop bad habits from practicing something incorrectly.

Therefore, practice – plus feedback – makes perfect.

Feedback helps learners go beyond simple repetition, allowing them to focus on areas in need of improvement and, even more importantly, to see the results of their efforts as the feedback drives positive change. This is known as deliberate practice, and it’s as important in any business professional as it is in sports, the arts, or any other discipline. From employee development to customer education, providing feedback to help learners understand past behavior, and coaching to improve future outcomes, are essential for growth and success.

Feedback and coaching provide key insights into progress. Here is what we know works best:

The Sooner, the Better

So, when it comes to learning and skill development, practice is good. Practice plus feedback is great. And trainers can further level up the process with immediate, or real-time, feedback.

When learners receive immediate feedback, they can act on it in the moment. They can change their behavior while it is timely and relevant, allowing for better knowledge retention. With real-time assessment and guidance, learners take ownership of their development, which leads to enhanced performance.

Make it Personal

We’ve all likely been told at one time or another not to take feedback personally. However, when it comes to learning and skill development, feedback can – and should – be personal.

Every learner is unique. No two individuals have the same skill set, challenges, or needs. When companies understand and address these differences, they can build the most impactful and effective learning experiences by providing highly personalized feedback and coaching. What works for one employee is not always going to be the answer for another.

Addressing this individual need for personalized feedback across the business in a scalable, systematic, and efficient way has been a long-standing challenge. Until now…

Meet Alterity's NEW Alterity+

We’re excited to introduce Alterity+ – a new AI-powered practice and feedback assistant developed to offer around-the-clock feedback and coaching tailored to each unique learner. Alterity+ helps learners refine and elevate their skills anytime and anywhere.

Alterity+ harnesses the transformative force driving innovation across nearly all industries right now – artificial intelligence (AI). It leverages AI technologies to help leaders dynamically adapt their training initiatives to individual learners’ progress and performance. Alterity+ provides customized feedback and guidance for learners’ video submissions specific to each learner’s unique needs and pace.

Engage Learners, Empower Training

Alterity+ allows learners to meaningfully engage with the learning process through a personalized approach that offers actionable feedback on common areas of improvement. Learners get immediate, specific, and relevant feedback at their own pace. Through deliberate practice and objective feedback, they can change behaviors and make improvements – all in a comfortable, non-judgmental learning environment.

Alterity+ solves the challenges of scalability and efficiency by delivering consistent and targeted AI-powered feedback to a larger audience. This allows trainers to ensure uniform learning experiences while accelerating each learner’s skill development.

Alterity+ ensures that proprietary information shared during presentations remains in-house, ensuring the privacy and protection of valuable insights. Companies’ data and inputs from employees are not used to train this AI model. Our solution complies with the strictest of global standards.

Scale & Amplify Learning Impact

Alterity+ allows learners to practice asynchronously, guided by AI, and improve their skills before applying them to real tasks and scenarios. Users receive feedback and suggestions on presentation variables like clarity, tone, pace, use of filler words, and integration of keywords, as well as specific insights and advice to help optimize their performance. This new solution allows learners to:

develop skills that support career development
learn when it works best safely and securely
adopt and enhance standard skills and knowledge gained in training
meet individual goals for improvement
overcome obstacles to growth or success
boost competence and confidence

By combining practice and the power of AI to provide immediate feedback, Alterity+ helps organizations unlock learners’ full potential and drive remarkable growth and success.

Are you ready to harness the power of practice plus feedback to perfect your learning and
development process?

Learn more and request a demo today.

The demand for upskilling and reskilling has never been more critical. Within a decade, it’s expected technology will reshape more than one billion jobs worldwide, requiring as many individuals to retrain and reskill by 2030.¹ In response, organizations around the world are driving towards solutions that will ensure the effective validating of new skills in a rapidly changing job market.

Why Skill Validation Matters

With standards still evolving, organizations are responsible for valuing and validating this reskill and/or upskill mastery for their workforce. However, many organizations lack concrete proof regarding learners’ ability to retain and apply the knowledge and skills needed to successfully navigate the changing landscape.

3-Point Checklist for Upskilling your Workforce

✔ Set clear, aligned learning objectives
✔ Give real-time, relevant feedback
✔ Ensure consistent, unbiased evaluations

3 Steps to Validate Skill Mastery

The success of your upskill program hinges not only on the quality of training but also on the tangible proof of its impact. Here, we present a 3-point checklist for substantiating genuine skill mastery and enhancing your credentialing program.

1. Establish Clear, Aligned Learning Objectives

Effective assessments begin with defined learning objectives. These objectives form the foundation for your any learning program (and are critical in quickly reskilling or upskilling your employees), facilitating deliberate practice, relevant feedback, and meaningful assessments.

First, create clear, customized objectives rooted in your course materials, including training documents, video transcripts, and assessment rubrics. These objectives:

Provide learners with unambiguous guidance, ensuring they understand where to focus during practice.
Create a uniform learning experience for all participants.
Prevent misalignment between course content and assessment criteria.
Maintain consistency by subjecting all learners to the same predefined objectives, ensuring fairness and transparency. First, create clear, customized objectives rooted in your course materials, including training documents, video transcripts, and assessment rubrics. These objectives:

2. Offer Real-Time, Relevant Feedback

The next step involves providing learners with timely, actionable feedback on practice assignments and assessments guided by your learning objectives. This process reinforces comprehension of course content, enabling learners to refine and master their skills through continuous practice. Moreover, it instills instructor confidence in learners’ assessment readiness while reducing the bad habit formation that can occur when learners gain confidence in a wrong approach without timely feedback to redirect.

Providing timely, aligned feedback:

Encourages learners to persist until they achieve excellence.
Boosts learner confidence by illuminating their strengths and areas for improvement.
Sustains learner engagement and motivation.

3. Ensure Consistent, Unbiased Evaluations

Lastly, establish a consistent and fair evaluation process based on your learning objectives to enhance the value and credibility of your upskill/reskill program. By evaluating each learner’s skills and comprehension against the program’s learning objectives, instructors can grade with confidence.

Basing your assessments on learning objectives:

Boosts the credibility of your evaluations, ensuring all learners are graded against the same criteria.
Helps validate learners’ mastery of the required skills.

Selecting the Ideal Skills Development & Assessment Tools

Traditional assessment methods, such as multiple-choice tests and quizzes, often fall short when meeting today’s credibility, scalability, and value demands. Organizations find it challenging to verify the real-world readiness of their learners, instructors grapple with manual grading, and learners aspire for genuine recognition and feedback that prepares them for real-world challenges. In addition, these assessments often fail to keep up with the evolving needs of reskilling an entire workforce to meet the challenges and demands of the future of work.

AI-powered solutions are swiftly emerging to bridge this gap, offering innovative tools to enhance assessment and credentialing processes for organizations.

Get Evidence of Skill Mastery with Alterity's Alterity+ Features

Alterity is delighted to unveil Alterity+, a groundbreaking solution that employs a threefold assessment approach, offering tangible proof of skill mastery. This tool elevates reskilling programs using learner-created video submissions as concrete evidence of skill mastery, complete with AI-driven feedback and options for both individual practice and evaluator assessment, as needed.

Alterity+’s distinctive approach ensures upskilling objectives are supported by video proof of
genuine skill mastery, combining efficiency with undeniable validation. The new features
include:

Automated Learning Objectives: Alterity+ rapidly generates core learning objectives from provided course materials, saving instructors time and effort. It establishes precise assessment criteria for learners and instructors aligned with organizational goals.
Instant Feedback: An AI-driven tool that provides learners with real-time feedback on video assignments, ensuring depth of content understanding and presentation effectiveness. It reinforces learner comprehension of course material by aligning feedback with learning objectives.
Automated Smart Scoring: An automated grading system evaluates learners’ final video submissions against each learning objective to ensure consistent and unbiased evaluations. This approach showcases proof of mastery and frees instructors from the time-consuming manual grading process.

Alterity+ combines the efficiency of automation with the depth of human expertise. Our solution ensures fast, consistent assessment processes while seamlessly integrating human proficiency at any stage, providing organizations the best of both worlds. Plus, our privacy-first the infrastructure and training approach ensures the confidentiality and security of all data, reflecting our unwavering commitment to data protection.

With Alterity+, you can finally have confidence in proving skill readiness, accelerating learner growth and enhancing an organization’s credibility and scalability. AI-powered solutions are swiftly emerging to bridge this gap, offering innovative tools to enhance assessment and credentialing processes for organizations.