Evaluate to Accelerate Effective Training

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Evaluate to Accelerate Effective Training

• Meet the PROS!
• ASTD Dallas Chapter
• April 18, 2006
• Presented by John Cox, CPLP, Ed.D

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PositioningTraining into the Performance Picture

• CEO Expectations
• Focus on results not just on activities
• Evaluation measures should be driven by learning
  needs of the workforce and learning needs should
  be driven by the organization's business
  challenges.

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ObjectiveHow can you support organizational
goals/strategy and impact performance?
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Framework for Evaluation Criteria
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Measuring Return on Investment
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• BIO for John Cox, CPLP, Ed.D
• John is currently an Assistant Professor at the
  University of North Texas (UNT). He
• directs and teaches in the areas of Training
  Development and Human Performance
• Improvement (HPI). His research centers on the
  application of research to the practice
• of HPI with a current focus on employee
  retention.
• Dr. Cox is president of the Cox Learning Group, a
  consulting firm whose focus is on
• helping companies select, develop, and retain
  their human resources talent.
• He is a pioneer in the application of
  self-directed workplace learning methods. With
• over 20 years' experience, he has completed more
  than a hundred initiatives for clients
• in the Retail, Hospitality, Distribution and
  Manufacturing industries.
• He held executive positions as Director of
  Education at ClubCorp and Corporate
• Manager of Training and Development for The
  Southland Corporation. Prior to that he
• taught and consulted while a faculty member in
  the School of Business at East
• Carolina University.
• John published in ASTD Journal and Training
  Magazine. You can find his approach to
• Job Aid development in the ASTD Handbook for
  Technical and Skills Training.
• Dr. Cox received a Leadership Grant to attend
  North Carolina State University where