ASTD has joined with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to form a U.S. Technical Advisory Group (US/TAG) to coordinate U.S. input to a newly formed International Organization for Standardization (ISO) technical committee (ISO/TC 232) on Educational Service... More »

Learning & Development

Business Impact , Curriculum Alignment , Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement , Managing the Learning Function , Training and Development - General , Training for Multiple Cultures

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

There are seven golden rules that hold the key to constructing workable and accurate ROI calculations. They are: Everyone starts from a different place. Benefits need to be calculated in financial terms. It is your business case. Estimate conservatively. Everything has ... More »

Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Intermediate-level Content , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General