Getting Your Money's Worth from Training and Development: A Guide to Breakthrough Learning for Managers

The Three Keys to Getting Your Money’s Worth as a Participant

To get your money’s worth from your upcoming training and development opportunity:

1. Get Ready

2. Get Engaged

3. Get Results

You Need to Get Ready

Preparing ahead helps you get more out of the program; it increases your return on investment.

There is clear evidence that those who meet with their managers prior to a training program create learning intentionality that pays off as greater improvement compared to those who attend the same program but don’t meet with their managers beforehand (Brinkerhoff & Apking, 2001, p. 92).

Likewise, learning research has shown that once we decide that ...