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Inspired by the latest thinking in return on investment assessment and learning evaluation, we've developed a range of services to help our clients, including the evaluation of both individual programmes and a department's full portfolio of training and development services, as well as support for enhancing or implementing an evaluation or ROI process. Please click below to find out more:
ROI assessment/Programme Evaluation
Our powerful diagnostic approach allows you to quickly identify how effectively your investments measure up against the time and resources committed to them. The approach reveals not only what impacts have been felt, but why particular initiatives have had effect.
Mixing a range of perspectives, which usually include correlating available data and return on sponsor expectations analysis, the approach draws on established consulting and investment analysis models and techniques, and was developed through extensive client prototyping.
The method can also be used to evaluate the outcomes from an entire Training Department's annual spend. To find out more about department portfolio evaluation, please click here: Portfolio Evaluation.
Comprehensive approach
Backed by a robust toolset for analysis, the approach is designed to help HR, Learning and Development, Organisation Development and Talent Managers quickly determine the value of their people investment choices, as well as providing powerful information for any other sponsors, budget allocators and CFO's.
The approach can be applied to virtually any human capital investment and is relevant for commercial, public sector, not-for-profit and voluntary sectors alike. Example candidates for evaluation include:
- In-house coaching and mentoring programmes
- Core training programmes
- Culture change and integration projects
- HR policy impacts
- e-learning programmes
- Induction programmes
- Graduate training programmes
- Support for training accreditation applications
- Organisational development and change programmes
- Talent management
- Validation for a supplier's value pricing criteria
- Leadership development programmes.
Further information
For more information or to discuss the possibility of arranging a free, no-obligation meeting to find out how we may be able to help you, please call us now on +44 (0)1273 326822 or email info@proactivestyle.com
To view our latest research studies and white papers, please click here White Papers.
Full L&D Portfolio Evaluation
Extending our diagnostic method for evaluating individual initiatives to look across an L&D or HR department's full range of offerings, portfolio evaluation allows consideration of key lines of inquiry such as:
- What impacts are current programmes having?
- Why are these impacts occurring?
- How can we be sure that they are attributable to the programme(s)?
- Is the impact more or less than (or dependent on) other programmes or factors or combination of factors
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- In terms of business benefit, are we obtaining the best value for money from the current training portfolio?
- What, if anything, could we reasonably change to achieve greater benefit?
- What should be the priorities for investment?
Portfolio analysis allows future investments to be prioritised and supports bids for new budget.
To help streamline evaluation, we've developed a range of tools and templates for evaluating and reporting on department portfolios, including easily interpreted "red amber green" reporting and integration with balanced scorecards.
The portfolio framework can be used for planning annual programmes, keeping the value of the offerings as a whole in view, as well as for monitoring performance.
The framework is completely flexible, allowing consideration of different types of initiative (e.g. adopting a simpler evaluation approach for basic skills training over transformational training, and more detailed analysis for recently launched initiatives). The effect of integrating several initiatives over impacts of a single programme can also be evaluated, as can the effectiveness of different types of development method.
Note: Reference to "learning and development" and "training" on this web page should also be interpreted to refer to coaching, mentoring and any type of "soft skills" intervention. The terms "programme" or "initiative" may be taken to refer to an individual course, a full schedule of training modules, or any intervention, initiative or development method (e.g. action learning sets, e-learning and remote learning).
As with individual programme, we recommend conducting all or part of an initial portfolio study, whilst affecting a knowledge and tools transfer to our clients. This approach also allows adaptation of the method and reporting templates to fit unique client needs and existing processes.
As with individual programme, we recommend conducting all or part of an initial portfolio study, whilst affecting a knowledge and tools transfer to our clients. This approach also allows adaptation of the method and reporting templates to fit unique client needs and existing processes.
Further information
For more information or to discuss the possibility of arranging a free, no-obligation meeting to find out how we may be able to help you, please call us now on +44 (0)1273 326822 or email info@proactivestyle.com
To view our latest research studies and white papers, please click here White Papers.
Support for enhancing or implementing ROI/evaluation processes.
We support clients who wish to extend, review or revise their existing approach for evaluating L&D initiatives, as well as those who are starting from scratch. Consultations may involve as little as one day's effort and address virtually any topic relating to learning evaluation and impact assessment, as well as offering access to our extensive range of tools and templates if appropriate.
Note: Reference to "learning and development" and "training" on this web page should also be interpreted to refer to coaching, mentoring and any type of "soft skills" intervention. The terms "programme" or "initiative" may be taken to refer to an individual course, a full schedule of training modules, or any intervention, initiative or development method (e.g. action learning sets, e-learning and remote learning).
Further information
For more information or to discuss the possibility of arranging a free, no-obligation meeting to find out how we may be able to help you, please call us now on +44 (0)1273 326822 or email info@proactivestyle.com
To view our latest research studies and white papers, please click here White Papers.
References for statistics and survey-based statements quoted on this page: People Management, March 2008; NESS Survey, Learning and Skills Council, June 2006; Ford and Weissbein, Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1997; PDI, Coaching at Work, March 2008; Human Capital Evaluation, CIPD, Summer 2007.
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