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Evaluating the ROI from Learning: How to Develop Value-based Training Paul Kearns, CIPD, London, 2005, 161 pp., ISBN: 1-84398-078-9. £26.99 (paperback)
Review DO110.1108/00197850510617613
Keywords: Training, Learning, Return on investment
This book is an essential aid for all trainers and particularly training managers in making sure that training is properly evaluated and fits in with the business needs of the organisation.
Paul Kearns espouses his belief that value is the critical aspect of evaluation and that all training must put a financial figure on its potential benefits in a world where having faith that training surely brings benefits is no longer good enough. Training needs to relate to the bottom line as much as any other part of the organisation and Kearns's ideas are about making that happen.