Evaluating training

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.

Evaluation is not the final phase you should think about your evaluation plan early in the training design process. Work with training developers and other stakeholders to identify:

the evaluation purpose,
the evaluation questions,
and the data collection methods.

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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 [...]

Memory Understanding and Doing

Joy Wilson2019-01-28T18:14:25+00:00Categories: Training and Development|Tags: Designs for Learning, Evaluating training, 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 [...]

Employee Training and Fatally Flawed Thinking

Joy Wilson2023-09-19T08:30:21+00:00Categories: Change leadership, Return on training investment, Training and Development|Tags: Evaluating training, 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 [...]

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 [...]