Evaluating Training and Development

Evaluating training and development is not confined to end of course happy sheets. Evaluating training is also concerned with measures of enhanced business performance and begins when identifying training needs. Getting the competencies, content, standards and measures right at this stage will enable you to evaluate the impact of your training against a set of measurable criteria

Little Value from Bigwigs and Stinking Thinking

Joy Wilson2023-09-04T11:01:37+00:00Categories: Evaluating Training and Development, Return on training investment|Tags: Evaluating training, Leadership Lessons, Training & Development|

A big job had presented itself at training towers. The bigwigs had attended a continuous improvement seminar where they had been publicly embarrassed by the ring masters for their stinking thinking. The big wigs arrived at training towers and the gnomes were summoned. During a verbal [...]

Training Twaddle About Evaluation

Joy Wilson2023-09-04T17:34:19+00:00Categories: Evaluating Training and Development|Tags: Evaluating training|

At the quarterly management meeting heads of department were presenting progress reports. Head of distribution had just finished sharing his news on the goods lost in transit and damaged goods issues. He was applauded for the significant impact of these initiatives in the reduction in customer complaints and the [...]

Feedback is the food of progress, sometimes it doesn’t taste nice

Joy Wilson2023-09-19T08:00:11+00:00Categories: Evaluating Training and Development, Learning Design|Tags: Accelerate Learning,, Designs for Learning, Evaluating training|

I admire and encourage people who can express their creativity with whatever tools are available, but having access to PowerPoint and Clip Art does not make you a learning designer. I have owned a hammer for many years but that doesn't mean I can build a house. So when a customer asked me [...]

Is your Training and Development Footprint Shrinking?

Joy Wilson2021-06-10T11:35:57+00:00Categories: Evaluating Training and Development|Tags: Return on investment from training|

Learning professionals have always known that they should be measuring the return on investment from training and development or the contribution of their interventions in terms of business performance, but there has been very little external pressure on them to do so. As long as there was a demand for [...]

Why be in the training rat race

Joy Wilson2021-06-10T14:39:14+00:00Categories: Evaluating Training and Development|Tags: Criteria for selecting training provider|

In a land far away, I went along with a representative from a provider of training to meet their client, on the journey to the meeting I said to the representative, “There are at least twenty providers of training offering services to this company why should they choose you?” His [...]

Transfer This Before You Purchase Training that makes No Difference

Joy Wilson2017-01-05T10:29:11+00:00Categories: Evaluating Training and Development, Learning Design, Tips for Training, Training and Development|Tags: Accelerate Learning,, Designs for Learning, Performance Management, Training & Development|

Would you transfer funds from your account into an asset that does not enable you to measure its contribution to your business? That is effectively what you are doing when you send an employee on a training course without giving any thought to what you expect from your investment following [...]