2007 ASTD Awards: Deadline September 20, 2007 Be part of the 2007 ASTD Awards. Apply for these ASTD honors: Awards for Organizations Excellence in Practice - Practices and interventions that get results. ROI Impact Study Award - Case study that demonstrates return-on-in... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Coaching and Mentoring , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating

Employee educational records have historically been captured on paper and kept in employee personnel files at the unit level. Some challenges presented by this method are the reliability of records, the challenge to produce official reports for regulatory agencies, and ... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Career Development , Human Performance Improvement , Integrated Talent Management , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

Keeping a results-based evaluation and ROI process on track is one of biggest implementation challenges for evaluation professionals. In many ways, it's equivalent to training for a marathon. You start small with manageable goals, stretch your muscles, change your habit... More »

Learning & Development

Advanced Level Content , Business Impact , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

While the jump from employee engagement to ROI may be more than an intuitive leap of faith, little research has been able to draw a direct link between the two. With the help of a national restaurant chain, DecisionWise compared engagement measures with performance fact... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Business Impact , Engagement , Intermediate-level Content , Measuring and Evaluating

Why do we conduct an evaluation of a learning experience? Many times, we do not use the information or only give it a cursory review. Are there real benefits to conducting training evaluations? Some of the purposes for conducting evaluation include: To build relationshi... More »

Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Curriculum Alignment , Intermediate-level Content , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General