Lesson 6: Evaluate your Training

[Music] lesson six focuses on the importance of training evaluation a well planned and appropriately administered evaluation can benefit the organization and individuals involved in training significantly the organization and trainer can ensure that goals for training have been met participants can benefit from Improvement Maids as a result of evaluation and as a trainer feedback generated from an evaluation can help you become more effective in your training role during this lesson we'll unpack the benefits of the training evaluation and explore Greg's training evaluation template the evaluation form that will be used to assess your training session let's

discuss 61 why evaluate what are some of the reasons you should evaluate your training press pause now to complete this activity in your seminar workbook when you finished press play to continue with the seminar training should be evaluated so you can make improvements and justify the training's effectivess and the time used for training immediately following delivery of the session trainers and training designers should meet to evaluate the design content and presentation of the program continuous evaluation ensures that changes will be made that will affect positively the training outcomes and design of the course improving training

design and delivery based on evaluation enhances your credibility when you have evaluation data you're able to make judgments about how well the training met training needs how well the participants mastered content how well the trainer engaged participants and how well the training contributed to organizational and individual goals a course or session training evaluation should be conducted before participants leave the classroom when evaluation is conducted immediately participants are more likely to remember accurately how well the training helped them learn key elements that should be included in training evaluation include asking participants whether training met each of

the stated learning objectives asking participants which activities were the most and least effective asking participants how they'll apply the Learned skills in their jobs and asking participants to evalue the course content and materials as well as the performance of the trainer discussion 62 feelings about evaluation you know that your training session will be evaluated how do you feel about being evaluated press pause now to complete this activity in your seminar workbook when you finished press play to continue with the seminar Greg's training evaluation provides a template for simple straightforward evaluation that provides the trainer with

the basic information they need to know in regard to participant feedback let's take a look at the feedback areas included in this evaluation they are Clarity organization held my interest usefulness and quality in Clarity we ask was the presentation clear and easy to understand and appealing Clarity will come from well organized planned and E and well executed training content organization was the presentation organized and structured well planning is key here held my interest was the presenter interesting and able to hold my interest audience engagement through content activities and relationship building are IAL to success participants

must feel engaged and the trainer must hold their interest usefulness was the content applicable to my learning work and development training is all about facilitating learning where participants learn information that they will use quality were the slides handouts and materials appealing in content and design training content must be supported by well-designed slides handouts and other materials follow the basics of great document and slide design when creating these materials for this area of evaluation now let's consider the development of your training session 61 my evaluation take some time to consider each of the evaluation areas and

how you might meet or exceed participant expectations press pause now to complete this activity in your seminar workbook when you're finished with this activity congratulations you've completed the Train the trainer seminar enjoy facilitating your training session