Delegates will find the learning acquired by attending this course invaluable in carrying out their role in planning, implementing, delivering and evaluating training interventions. This course is designed to demonstrate how organizations can obtain greater value from their investment in training. The focus of the course will be on the evaluation of training and in particular how to measure and maximize the training ROI. The course advocates the adoption of a holistic approach to the evaluation and measurement of the effectiveness of training and will provide delegates with sufficient learning to enable them to make a convincing business case for training and the allocation of resources for training.

Training course features:

• Issues related to the management of the training budget and potential compromises impacting on the ‘training spend’
• Ensuring that proposed training programmes are relevant and the business case to support planned expenditure can be made
• Monitoring and evaluating the impact of training in the workplace
• Identifying future training needs
• Demonstrating ROI has been achieved.

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Understand the issues related to measuring and maximizing training ROI
• Plan, organise and deliver relevant training interventions

• Demonstrate the business case for specific training interventions
• Understand and be able to implement techniques applicable to identifying training needs.
• Describe best practice in relation to employee development

Target Audience
This course is suitable to a wide range of HR professionals, line managers, team leaders and at the same time will greatly benefit those who:

• need to know about training evaluation and the calculation of training ROI.
• have a strategic overview of the business and who may also be responsible for initiating training programmes or authorizing  expenditure for training
• are responsible for Human Resource Development and the planning and delivery of training programmes at a strategic level
• are responsible for the planning and implementation of training programs at an operational level
• manage people and who are responsible for identifying and implementing training to meet individual training needs or specific organisational training requirements, i.e. to meet skill shortages