| Telling Training's Story: Evaluation Made Simple, Credible, and Effective Contributor(s): Brinkerhoff, Robert O. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1576751864 ISBN-13: 9781576751862 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: No matter how much trainers believe that their work is valuable, clients will always want solid, objective evidence that the training they're spending good money on is effective. "Telling Training's Story provides the tools to do just that, allowing anyone to measure a training regime's effectiveness and prove it to customers. The book's central tool is the Success Case Method (SCM), and although the SCM is rigorous enough to convince even the harshest skeptic, it's also easy to understand. The book first explains how the SCM works, and then lays out a five-step plan that shows how to perform an SCM evaluation. Later chapters elaborate on the SCM process, providing in-depth instructions and guidelines. There are also four case studies that show how SCM evaluations were performed by global organizations. Filled with examples and checklists, "Telling Training's Story levels the playing field by granting trainers the ability to prove what they know in their heart -- training works. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Training |
| Dewey: 658.311 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.1" W x 8.98" (0.95 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: You know it in your gut--training and development is valuable and worthwhile. But as a trainer, you need to prove this fact over and over to clients focused on bottom-line results. While most training evaluation methods are too elaborate, too complex, too costly, too difficult to explain, or worse, produce data that nobody believes, Telling Training's Story offers a simple, compelling way of evaluating training's impact: The Success Case Method (SCM). Based on careful analysis of participants' first-person accounts of their experiences in a training initiative, SCM doesn't just measure the impact of training, but pinpoints the very factors that make or break training success. Filled with examples, illustrations, tools, and checklists, Telling Training's Story not only shares the power of the Success Case Method to evaluate training, it also offers practical step-by-step guidelines for increasing the ROI of future learning and performance initiatives. |