Measuring The Success of Training - The Reality

   The Reality - 'Why didn't this Training Work?'

Although some training will be successful and the lessons learnt within a training initiative will migrate across from the learning environment into the workplace, the reality of the training environment is often less successful. The success of a training initiative will depend mainly upon the acceptance of change within the business culture concerned - whether the culture and its people are flexible and adaptable, and even then there may be a significant degree of resistance.

The key learning points from training initiatives can stumble at a number of points. The people who attend a training workshop may understand the learning points, but:

1. They may not know how to apply the learning within the workplace.
2. They may not be confident enough to apply the learning in the workplace.
3. They may apply the learning in the workplace, but experience rejection or a negative response and then revert to old (unwanted) behaviour.
4. They may apply the learning, but not develop or build upon it