What Great Trainers Do

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Evaluating the Workshop

Conducting training without evaluation is like flying without instruments.

——Ronald Meyer

While some companies have moved toward on-line forms of evaluation, a common scenario regarding the evaluation of workshops is that the trainer is provided evaluation forms to use at the conclusion of the workshop. Typically, he walks into the classroom and the forms are sitting on a table. He picks one up and glances at it to be sure they are the right evaluations for this particular training. He may study it for a few minutes to see what the participants will be rating. But that’s about it. Generally, decisions concerning the level of workshop evaluation and the content and form of the evaluation are made prior to the training ...