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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

My thinking about training evaluation was turned on its head by a presentation at the February 2011 MNISPI meeting by Beth McGoldrick of Ameriprise’s RiverSource University. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. But it wasn’t. She enhanced it.

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Proving the value of leadership development

CLO Magazine

It’s hard to pick up a publisher’s catalog, a newspaper or even a magazine without seeing a new book on leadership. More specifically, it’s the impact of leadership development, often based on the leadership book. Think about the value of a leadership development program. Why are there so many?

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How to Measure and Optimize eLearning ROI: Strategies, Tools, and Case Studies

eLearningMind

On the other hand, other things aren’t as easy to quantify, such as eLearning ROI. As budgets tighten and the demand for accountability rises, measuring and optimizing the return on investment (ROI) of eLearning initiatives has never been more critical. Tom Kelly, VP of Internet Learning Solutions Group at Cisco Systems, Inc.,

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It’s time to update your evaluation strategy

CLO Magazine

The best way to survive and even thrive in the current economic downturn is to actually measure the impact and ROI of your major programs to ensure that these programs deliver the business results that executives and sponsors want and need. Forecasting ROI before implementation will be a common approach. The new normal.

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Soft skills are more valuable than hard skills

CLO Magazine

In ROI Institute, we are uniquely positioned to see what types of programs executives want to have evaluated to the impact and ROI levels and the success of those evaluations. We’ve never had an executive ask for an ROI study for technical training. The term actually began in the military in the 1950s.

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Leadership development should begin with “why” — and that’s usually not behavior change

CLO Magazine

For leadership development, this should be impact and not behavior. Let’s review how leadership development accountability has evolved. Decades ago, we wanted participants involved in leadership development to perceive the content as valuable, important to them and something they would try. Accountability shifts.

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Showing the ROI of key programs on a budget

CLO Magazine

At the same time, you don’t necessarily have the resources to devote to a comprehensive evaluation. Here are 7 ways to minimize resources and still show the value of a major program at the impact and ROI levels. Also, estimates can be used to arrive at the monetary value of a particular data item for the ROI analysis.

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