Introduction

 

When your business has invested in some training, how do you know if it was a success? Your gut feeling might be that skills and practice have improved. But in what ways and by how much has it improved, and did you get value for money?

 

You can answer these questions by doing some evaluation. Understanding precisely how a particular piece of training measures up will help you to select the best type of training for your business and get the maximum benefit from it. Understanding how much the training achieved can also help you identify any future training requirements.

 

This guide looks at how evaluating training benefits your business. It also shows you ways of evaluating your training, and how to integrate these into your training strategy.

 

Subjects covered in this guide

• Introduction
• Why evaluate training?
• Improve business performance through training
• Measure training effectiveness
• Devise a simple training evaluation
• Evaluate more precisely
• Evaluate a range of training methods
• Next steps for developing training