Evaluating the ROI from Learning - Softcover

Paul Kearns

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843980789 ISBN 13: 9781843980780

Publisher: Chartered Inst of Pers/Develop, 2005

Synopsis

If you don't know where you started, how can you tell how far you've come? If you concentrate on measuring how well people have learnt what you've taught them, then virtually all the training evaluation you have been doing is a waste of time. It will give you some great data on how good a trainer you are, but you have nothing to show how useful you are to the business. If you want to know how far you have travelled you have to take a tachometer reading before you start the journey. So it is with training evaluation - you have to collect baseline measures before you start the training. Once you understand this first rule of evaluation the subject becomes very simple.From this first principle, Paul Kearns builds a complete system that links all training directly to business needs. He shows how to use some simple tools to measure trainee performance and then put a financial value on it - so that trainees know how well they are doing and trainers start demonstrating how much value is being added by learning.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Kearns is an expert in training evaluation. He established his own consultancy thirteen years ago after spending 12 years in business as an in-house training manager. He is a regular speaker and writer. He has a particularly high profile in the HR/training field and is known as a contraversial figure.

Review

"Paul Kearns, a specialist in analysing training programmes, said the corporation had refused to listen to his damning conclusions about the course at Ashridge management school after hiring him as a consultant.... Daily Telegraph, 2 October 2004"

Edition details

• Publisher: Chartered Inst of Pers/Develop
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843980789
• ISBN 13: 9781843980780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224