Training for Impact: How to Link Training to Business Needs and Measure the Results

By Dana Gaines Robinson and James C. Robinson

Book Overview

Document your efforts in terms management will understand Are your employee training efforts really paying off? In thishands-on guide, two top human resources consultants present aresults-oriented, twelve-step approach that directly links trainingto specific organizational goals. Here is all the information andguidance you need to create a work environment that reinforces newskills and maximizes training results. You'll also learn todocument the effect your efforts have on the bottom line, tracksubtle but important changes in employee values and beliefs, anddemonstrate increased sales and productivity. It's THE definitivehandbook for tracking and cost justification of training anddevelopment efforts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555421539
• ISBN13: 9781555421533
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Pfeiffer
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Needed ROI justification for corporate training programs

Lots of lip service gets paid to training, but most training functions usually reside at the cutting edge of the downsizing axe. This book provides training managers with methods for reporting how a training program contributes to a company's bottom line. It sheds light on how the intangible attributes of trainees (one of which is the knowledge learned in a training program) get transferred into work skills, and how both knowledge and skills can be quantified into numbers which management can understand. The only drawbacks are: 1) that there is not enough of a discussion about statistical methods for data interpretation, and 2) some examples of purposeful, targeted questions would definitely be useful. However, overall, I am happy to have this text become part of my daily playbook.