Comments for Training Evaluation Metrics http://www.training-evaluation-metrics.com Metrics and other measurement tools for training Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on The Importance Of Concrete, Quantitative Training Evaluation Metrics by Vidyut http://www.training-evaluation-metrics.com/the-importance-of-concrete-quantitative-training-evaluation-metrics.htm#comment-6 Vidyut Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:30:05 +0000 http://www.training-evaluation-metrics.com/the-importance-of-concrete-quantitative-training-evaluation-metrics.htm#comment-6 I absolutely agree. I sometimes feel that there is a certain lack of ownership of results even among facilitators and trainers, where it is simple to say that no training is foolproof and leave it like that. I think feedback that is quantative in terms of impact is very important. For the company to assess the impact of the training, and the trainer as concrete feedback of his or her work. Imagining ourselves to be effective is easy to claim and near impossible to disprove without concrete data, and it is far more tempting to claim phenomenal impact rather than say there was a difference of 4 percent or something which could also have other shared causes. I do try and establish means of such feedback when planning programmes. How do we measure results being part of the planning. Unfortunately, clients also tend to want the feel good factor rather than the possibility that they have spent this money in vain. I absolutely agree.

I sometimes feel that there is a certain lack of ownership of results even among facilitators and trainers, where it is simple to say that no training is foolproof and leave it like that.

I think feedback that is quantative in terms of impact is very important. For the company to assess the impact of the training, and the trainer as concrete feedback of his or her work. Imagining ourselves to be effective is easy to claim and near impossible to disprove without concrete data, and it is far more tempting to claim phenomenal impact rather than say there was a difference of 4 percent or something which could also have other shared causes.

I do try and establish means of such feedback when planning programmes. How do we measure results being part of the planning. Unfortunately, clients also tend to want the feel good factor rather than the possibility that they have spent this money in vain.

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