Getting Your Money's Worth from Training and Development: A Guide to Breakthrough Learning for Managers

How to Use This Book

This book is a practical “how-to” guide. It provides efficient, succinct, proven procedures for getting the greatest value from training and development of your direct reports. It is short because it is not that hard to get a big return on training—provided you and your direct reports do the work necessary. Like so many other things in life, you get out pretty much what you put in. No investment, no return.

Getting your money’s worth from training will require some (but not a lot) of your time. The steps we recommend are designed to achieve significant impact while making efficient use of your time. The whole process will require about three hours of your time over the next three months—approximately fifteen minutes a week. ...