Tool 1 of 7 · Chapter 1

Activity Trap Diagnostic

Take a training programme that ran and changed nothing. This walks you through why — then rewrites its objective as something a supervisor could actually observe.

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1

The programme

Pick one that ran, finished, and left performance where it was.

2

The objective, exactly as written

Copy it verbatim from the programme description — don't improve it on the way in. The scan below marks attendance language in red and observable verbs in green.

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word describes awareness or attendance word describes observable performance
3

How success was measured

Tick everything that was actually collected — not what was intended.

4

Was it even a training problem?

Chapter 1's first failure mode. Tick anything that was also true at the time.

5

The reframe

Rebuild the objective as performance. Fill each part and the sentence assembles itself on the right.

Audiencewho performs
Behaviourobservable verb + object
Conditionwhere, with what
Degreethe standard
Evidencewhat you'd collect
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Diagnosis
—Fill in step 2 to begin
  • Nothing was measured at all.

Your performance reframe

Complete the steps and your diagnosis and reframed objective appear here, ready to copy into a design document.

Next in the method

A reframed objective is the start, not the finish. Chapter 2 maps the whole project phase by phase; Chapter 4 diagnoses whether training was ever the right answer.