Dr. Darryl Sink - BIO

Dr. Darryl Sink is president of Darryl L. Sink & Associates, Inc., (DSA). DSA has 25 years of experience designing and developing great learning experiences. His firm specializes in learning and performance consulting and custom training design and development.

Dr. Sink is the author of 6 comprehensive guides to instructional design and development that are used with DSA’s workshops to provide fundamental instructional design training and processes. These processes have been adopted and are being used by many Fortune 500 companies, public institutions and non-profit organizations.

Dr. Sink and his world-class design teams have designed and developed over 1,000 fully custom training programs. Today DSA specializes in providing the learning and performance needs required for the implementation of their clients key strategic initiatives.

He is a contributing author to both editions of the International Society of Performance Improvement’s (ISPI) Handbook of Human Performance Technology, published by Jossey Bass. He is the recipient of ISPI’s Professional Service Award for his service to the organization. He was twice awarded the Outstanding Instructional Product Of The Year Award by ISPI.

Dr. Sink frequently shares his practical approaches to learning and performance at conferences and learning events, including ASTD’s International Conferences, VNU’s Training Conferences, and ISPI functions.

Meeting Description:

One data-gathering technique used often in needs assessment/analysis studies is the interview. But how do we identify problems, challenges, and opportunities and their possible solutions without biasing the interviewee towards any particular solution? Learn how to best conduct interviews, and walk away with a practical method for increasing speed and accuracy when analyzing the data. You have a very useful tool to use in coming up with the right questions to ask when conducting needs assessment/analysis interviews of your own.

Meeting Objectives:

• Identify primary mistakes often made in question selection when conducting needs assessment interviews and the costly consequences.
• Sequence a set of standard interview questions, identify supplemental questions and explain the rationale for the sequence.
• Explain a breakthrough technique for transcribing interviews, organizing them in your work processor, analyzing them in record time, and generating more accurate reports.