To a degree, learning is its own reward. Employees become more productive and engaged, and learning also improves job satisfaction and retention. But in business, everything must show its worth. Is learning an investment or an expense?
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Does training evaluation strike fear into your heart, creating anxiety because you feel uncertain about what to do or if what you’re doing is correct? It shouldn’t be that stressful.
If you’re able to bring your training program out of the world of theory and into the realities of what data and evaluation can offer, you’ll be able to successfully evaluate your L&D project and make conclusions to help drive business decisions.
Use this planner as you develop each training program and course so you keep evaluation top-of-mind and, therefore, easier to gauge after completion.
Calculating the business impact of customer education programs has proven to be a difficult task. Studies suggest that the current methodologies used to provide evidence of the business impact of all educational programs are lacking.
It’s been almost 60 years since Donald Kirkpatrick created his four-level training evaluation model. Despite their best efforts, few organizations have been able to reach the holy grail of learning – level 4 (the effect on the business).
Adding to the traditional Kirkpatrick/Phillips model, level 6 is an evaluation that measures your learning climate and tells you which environmental factors are most affecting the impact of your training on the job.
Being fairly new to an L&D function, I have been both amused, and alarmed, by the ambition of some organizations to reach level four of the widely used Kirkpatrick model.
For those of us in the training and development industry, the quest to measure the results of training is almost as complex and even unattainable as the quest for the holy grail.