"In order to win the trust of your stakeholders, be honest with them about the business partnership needed to maximize results." ​

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It's a startling statistic for L&D professionals: approximately 85% of training graduates fall prey to a myriad of factors that influence them to do something other than what they learned during training.

Jim Kirkpatrick and Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick offer a plan to help overcome these challenges.

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"Feed a man a fish or teach a man to fish. Which is your approach to training evaluation?"

- Jim Kirkpatrick, Training Evaluation Expert and Fisherman

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This full class in Shanghai, China, works to earn their Kirkpatrick bronze certification during a recent program.

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As training professionals, most of us will admit that when we scoop up a stack of evaluation forms, our eye goes first to one place: the questions where participants tell us how we did teaching the class.

This is just human. We all want to know if people liked
us, if they thought we did a good job and if we accomplished our goals.

But what if I said that much of the feedback you are getting isn’t true?

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This active class works to earn their Kirkpatrick bronze certification during a recent program in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation, the popular best-seller authored by Jim Kirkpatrick and Wendy Kirkpatrick was recently named to the list, "48 Books Every Aspiring Chief Learning Officer Should Read."

TalentLMS recently published the list to their blog. The Kirkpatrick book is found under Evaluation and Feedback titles.

Click here for complete details on the book and this recognition. You'll want to add it to your must-read list, too.

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“Save training dollars and successfully demonstrate training value by using
a chain of evidence showing data at all four Kirkpatrick levels.”  ​

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