Evaluating training and development Evaluating training and development is an activity that most people do after the training has been delivered. However, evaluating training and development starts at the training needs analysis stage. What will we see if this training is going to add value to the organisation is something both learning designers and purchasers of training need to know so that they can select programmes with relevant content and methods.

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Little Value from Bigwigs and Stinking Thinking

By Joy Wilson|2019-01-24T19:50:39+00:00January 24th, 2019|Categories: Evaluating Training, Return on training investment, Training and Development|Tags: Evaluating training and development, 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 thrashing the gnomes were told to put out to tender [...]

Training Twaddle About Evaluation

By Joy Wilson|2019-02-03T17:58:04+00:00October 25th, 2017|Categories: Evaluating Training, Strategic Human Resource Management, Training and Development|Tags: Evaluating training and development, Return on investment from 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 decrease in goods being written off, demonstrating [...]

Memory Understanding and Doing

By Joy Wilson|2019-01-28T18:14:25+00:00October 21st, 2017|Categories: Training and Development|Tags: Evaluating training and development, Learning Design, Training & Development|

Memory Understanding and Doing – MUD just one of the essential processes we use when designing learning, it helps to ensure learners achieve a variety of learning goals and are able to assimilate with existing knowledge, accommodate new knowledge and encode or write what they know to long term memory to enable application when that time arrives. [...]

Employee Training and Fatally Flawed Thinking

By Joy Wilson|2017-01-05T10:29:10+00:00August 1st, 2013|Categories: Change leadership, Return on training investment, Training and Development|Tags: Evaluating training and development, Training & Development|

Training is about change and the sad truth is that many companies go about initiating that change in entirely the wrong way. Training is effective as the LAST step to personal and organizational change but it is rarely an effective FIRST step….Why? Employee Training and Fatally Flawed Thinking Often manager’s use training as an alternative and [...]

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

By Joy Wilson|2017-01-05T10:29:10+00:00April 13th, 2013|Categories: Evaluating Training, Learning Design|Tags: Accelerate Learning,, Evaluating training and development, Learning Design|

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 to update some materials created by a [...]

Purchasers of Training – Beware the Cuckoo in the Nest

By Joy Wilson|2017-01-05T10:29:10+00:00October 16th, 2012|Categories: Evaluating Training, Strategic Human Resource Management, Training and Development|Tags: Consulting in the Middle East, Ethical Business, Evaluating training and development, Training & Development|

Purchasers of Training - Beware the Cuckoo in the Nest The expression "cuckoo in the nest" can mean a person or an organisation trying to look like something they are not; it is also used to describe a problem that grows quickly, consuming resources needed for other purposes Don’t Sponsor a Training Cuckoo Training purchasers, would you [...]

Why be in the training rat race

By Joy Wilson|2017-01-05T10:29:10+00:00September 5th, 2012|Categories: Evaluating Training, Strategic Human Resource Management, Training and Development|Tags: Evaluating training and development, Return on investment from training, Training & Development|

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 response to this question came as [...]