TrainingIndustry.com-What Happens After Training is as Important as the Training

**EXCELLENT ARTICLE AND WHITEPAPER**

A great deal of Learning & Development effort goes into
providing the right training: good content targeting specific
needs; well designed; and delivered in the best possible
way. Quite right too. The problem is that we think it’s all
over once the training is delivered. There is much to do, so
as soon as the training finishes, our attention turns to
making the next programme happen.

The fact is that when training finishes, we have only just
begun the process of converting training into business
benefit (the reason why we do training in the first place).
Think of the process as having three stages:

Stage 1: Good training causes learning to happen.

Stage 2: Learners use what they have learned, their
skills increase and they become more productive.

Stage 3: Greater productivity leads to business benefit.

Stage 2 is pivotal – unless learners use what they learn,
how can any learning convert into business benefit? And
yet this is precisely the point where we usually stop paying
attention, and turn to the next programme.

As we’ll see later, our data shows that a quarter of all
training fails to yield significant performance improvement.
This paper will show you how we arrive at that figure, and
we’ll also show how you can go about reducing it.

Read the report at: http://www.trainingindustry.com/media/2624955/knowledgepool-they%20think%20it%27s%20all%20over.pdf

Or: http://www.trainingindustry.com/training-outsourcing/white-papers/they-think-it%27s-all-over.aspx