25. How to track the Effectiveness of your trainings

CLO (knocking his CEO’s cabin) : May I come in?

CEO : Of course, Thanks for guiding us on "How to engage your training participants" last time. It was really helpful. What's the Gyaan for the day?

CLO : Yes, Let's go to the next critical step of any training program -

Training Effectiveness : How to track it

Unless you measure, it doesn't improve. To improve your training effectiveness, you must measure the right KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). It will help build competition and motivate your trainees to perform.

The ultimate secret to making anything a success, is to measure it, that too easily. The measurement must be easy and automatic, if possible.

Let's go back to the Major Mistake in Corporate Trainings we discussed in our third edition.

STOP worrying about perfect Content, START worrying about whatever you teach, is it learnt and implemented?

We have followed this principle all throughout the Newsletter editions.

Coming back to question : "How to track your Trainings Effectiveness?", following are few of the few time tested principles which can be used in your training and development plan to increase its effectiveness.

1) Certification :

Delivering certificates to participate after completion of a training is a very effective method to encourage completion. It increases involvement of learners and even creates a healthy competition. With the LMS, you can even provide individual customized certificates for each training that you offer. Make the most of this technology in your training and development process.

2) Leaderboard :

Maintaining the leaderboard of the top scorers in a course can lead to competition and motivate learners to participate effectively. This is a great tool to identify the stars in specific skills.

3) Feedback loop :

A feedback is useful if it is constructive and timely. In today's world, technology will ensure that you can collect the feedback on any trainings in a timely manner. It also helps as people tend to be more open in a online environment which is less confrontational. Using feedback properly is a well know secret to improve any process, Training and Development is surely not an exception.

While it is very difficult to generalize what exactly you should do in your organization, here is one assessment which goes near to what you might need on this topic.

It is a simple 7 question self-assessment which is mainly based on the philosophy that the lesser time you spend on actual training, better it is, and the more time you spend on its implementations, better it is.

Go get your score and find out where you can get better :

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