C h a p t e r   5

Evaluating the Workshop

What’s in This Chapter?
  • Reasons for evaluation
  • Explanations of evaluation techniques and instruments and how they are used

 

Reasons for Evaluation of Training

Business guru Tom Peters tells us, “What gets measured gets done. . . . Even imperfect measures provide a strategic indication of progress or lack thereof.” The evaluation of training is an essential process to ensure that the organization’s resources are being used wisely. Evaluation is important to the organization, as well as to the trainer and the participants. Organizations will want to know: “Is the cost of training justified?” Trainers will ...

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