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Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
With this question, the hiring manager is assessing whether you are learner-centered. Assure them that you are highly driven by the needs of learners when making decisions about the learning programs you develop and improve. Dig deep and find the root cause as to why you decided to change the program. Talk about outcomes and lessons learned.

Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
"The most impactful program change I made was for our onboarding training. When it was first developed, we intended it to be facilitated fully through instructor-led classroom sessions. However, as the company scaled and expanded its footprint, it became more and more challenging to ensure consistency in the delivery of the material. Further, employees started working from home, and many of the activities involved were impossible to conduct online. The solution was to develop an onboarding program that would translate as well virtually as possible in person. I gathered all of the pain points from when we first tried to virtualize the program and researched what bigger companies were doing to alleviate the issues. Then, we ran a couple of pilot runs with smaller groups and followed up with a comprehensive feedback survey. After two rounds of fine-tuning, we finally came to an iteration that resulted in a 95% satisfaction rate from new hires."

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