Training on Trial: How Workplace Learning Must Reinvent Itself to Remain Relevant

While upbeat lingo abounds about "complementing strategic objectives" and "driving productivity," most training does not make a significant enough impact on business results. When it does, training professionals fail to make a convincing case about the value added to the bottom line. The vaunted "business partnership model" is not yet realized, and in times when the training budget is often the first to be cut, training is on trial for its very existence. Using a courtroom trial as a metaphor, Training on Trial seeks to get to the truth about why training fails and puts the business partnership model to work for real. Readers will learn how to stop viewing training as a cost center and bridge the gulf between what learning functions deliver and what business units need. A thought-provoking read for all, this book provides a new application of the Kirkpatrick Four-Level Evaluation Model and many tips and techniques that allow lessons learned to be put into action now.