Project Management: TRAINING

What Should Evaluation Measure?

Most people think of training evaluation as the process of filling out a one- or two-page form at the end of a workshop and tallying the results. As a training professional, you know that there is much more to it than that; and yet we often find ourselves trapped into having our entire training initiative judged on the basis of that one document. Let’s face it: If the evals aren’t good, your training program may be doomed from the start. Therefore, you will want to spend some time constructing an evaluation instrument that accurately measures the things that matter. At the same time, you want to identify other measures that look more globally at the short- and long-term effects of your training effort. In other ...