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Measuring Training
Effectiveness & Optimal
Time-lag of Trainees Feedback
Training and developments are shows growing importance of
two essential aspects of any T&D in the competing world
progressive institution. Training market. While planning T&D in Asad Jan
programs help the incumbent to an organization, two aspects are Joint Director
NIBAF
enhance those skills that need broadly considered. First, design
improvement, while development training according to the
effective-improved
programs benefited the knowledge and skills-set of
productivities, increased sales
employees to elevate, across the employees, second, measuring
with quality product & better
board, skills-set and knowledge effectiveness of training. The
marketing, and high morale are
base. The overarching goal of former weighs enhancement in
the measurable and tangible
most employee training and relevant skills i.e. a structure
results of the trainings.
development strategies is
to improve productivity and Now the question is how to
performance. Notably, fast measure the effectiveness
changing technological of a training and with what
environment and improved time lag?
communication networking
There is no hard and fast
have significantly
rule to discern time lag for
influenced the working
gauging training
ethics and dynamics. It
effectiveness. As every
warrants to devise a training & development program training has its unique impact on
steady and consistent strategy to ensures that employees have a employee’s attitude and skills
improve expertise and enhance consistent experience and that varies with time intervals.
capabilities of the employees, background knowledge, while
through training and the latter assesses improved Furthermore, it also depends on
development, in order to performance at work and the objective of given training
compete well in the world greater engagement and program. Specifically, the
market. retention of employees. qualitative effects of trainings
usually take longer time to
Statistic shows that companies In fact, training is all about reflect-in the behavior of an
across the globe invest heavily in improving individual and group employee, while the quantitative
employees training and performances and in turn impact appears within some time
development. According to influencing the overall interval.
Training Industrial Magazine performance of business and
(TIM), there are incremental work. It is important to evaluate It is important to set the
increase of 14% per annum on the effectiveness of the training objective(s) of a training
employees’ training and and ensure that the original program and measure only, with
education spending in learning goals achieved. Cost well-define timeline, what it
developed economies alone. This takes to substantiate a confident
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