Kirkpatrick Model of Evaluation

I was lucky enough to attend the South West Region Growing Guiding conference at Longleat a couple of weeks ago. The Trainer who did the workshop for Trainers did a really effective job - half the groups had to come up with a visual representation of a good quality training the other half an ineffectual training. Groups then swapped flip charts and annotated how the trainings could be improved.  The Trainer introduced us to the concept of the Kirkpatrick Model of Evaluation which I had never heard of before but could be used so well in order to evaluate the sort of training we do. For more information see http://www.businessballs.com/kirkpatricklearningevaluationmodel.htm.

The next training I do I'm going to have a go at doing evaluation at all 4 levels and see the impact that has on the training plan.