Field notes on skills, training, and assessment

Perspectives on workforce competency, learning science, and what we have learned building assessment systems for organizations where skills matter.

Workforce Competency June 22, 2026 Murray Goldberg

Would you even know? The question most training programs can't answer — and how to fix it

If your training weren't working as well as it could, would you even know? For most organizations the honest answer is no — because the data that holds the answers is thrown away the moment it's created. Here is how to keep it, and why it compounds.

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Learning Science June 15, 2026 Murray Goldberg

Why two assessors watching the same performance give different scores — and what to do about it

Inter-rater reliability is the unglamorous problem at the heart of skill assessment, and almost no one talks about it openly. Here is what it is, why an assessment that changes with the assessor isn't really an assessment at all, and the four levers that actually move it.

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Workforce Competency June 8, 2026 Murray Goldberg

Flying blind: the hidden cost of not measuring skills

Somewhere in your organization right now, a skill gap exists that you do not know about. Aviation, surgery, and baseball all solved this problem the same way — by measuring what was actually happening. Here is what that means for your organization.

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Audit Readiness May 19, 2026 Murray Goldberg

Why training records often fail under a tracer audit: three common documentation gaps

When a surveyor asks how you know a specific staff member was competent on a specific task, training-completion records often cannot answer. Three documentation gaps explain why — and what closes them.

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Learning Science April 25, 2026 Murray Goldberg

The most valuable minutes in skill training are the ones most organizations waste

Feedback works best while the experience is still fresh. Yet in many organizations, the debrief immediately after a performance assessment is delayed, abbreviated, or skipped entirely — usually because of process friction. Here is why those few minutes matter so much, and what changes when the friction is removed.

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