Are you responsible for employee training? How do your training efforts impact performance? In this bottom-line-oriented business world, it's more important than ever to be able to show how your training and other performance improvement interventions create value for your organization. Managers, trainers, HRD directors and CEOs benefit from this straight-forward guide to evaluation and transfer of learning. You need to know if the time and money invested in employee training is providing improved performance and productivity.

Jane Holcomb, Ph.D., is an expert in the field of evaluation and transfer of learning. Let her show you how to make your training worth every penny.

Key Points

• Learn several methods for evaluating training to ensure all of your evaluation questions are answered.
• Follow a three-step process to promote transfer of learning from the classroom to the work site.
• Link your needs assessment to your program objectives and your method of evaluation to give you information you can use.
• Evaluation will help you assist managers in identifying environmental barriers and recommend ways to deal with them.
• Learn how to reward and recognize employees based on performance improvement to encourage their progress and maintain change.
• Demonstrate the quality and value of your programs with evaluation data that can be used to make changes and decisions.