1. Return on Investment for
Training and Development
LOCATING THE BOTTOM LINE
Gloria Regalbuto Bentley, Ph.D.
2. Overview
What’s your motivation?
Who’s responsibility is it, anyway?
The “Front-end” of “Front-end” Analysis
Negotiate Learning and Performance
Objectives
Use Existing Metrics
Maybe it’s not ROI; it’s ROM
3. What’s your motivation?
Feeling Defensive?
What are you measuring?
Competence Assessment?
Other Goals?
Are there things you
shouldn’t measure?
4. What’s your motivation?
Feeling Defensive?
Importance of ROI
Defending Existence
Other Options:
Full Cost of Training &
Development
Cost of Management
Use Capital Asset Budgeting
Model
5. What’s your motivation?
What are you measuring?
Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels:
1. Intervention Quality
2. Acquisition
3. Application
4. Organizational Payoff
Social Contribution-(R.
Kaufman)
Success-Case Evaluation (R.
Brinkerhoff)
7. What’s your motivation?
Other Goals?
Compliance & Certification
“Fetch” Competency
“Networking”
The CEO wants it…
8. What’s your motivation?
Are there things you
shouldn’t measure?
Jobs requiring high levels of
expertise
Jobs requiring high levels of
discretionary decision-making
Jobs with idiosyncratic,
unique, or unrepeatable output
9. Who’s responsibility is it, anyway?
Do you have control
over application?
What is the supervisor’s
role?
If you take
responsibility, do you
cause supervisors to
abdicate theirs?
10. The “Front-end” of “Front-end” Analysis
Needs Forecasting:
Changes in strategic
direction
Expansion/Contraction
Re-organization/Merger
Compliance/Certification
Bench-strength & Critical
Manpower Planning
New Methods, Processes,
Equipment
11. Negotiate Learning and Performance Objectives
Through Job & Task Analysis, target performance
objectives linked to improved performance
Measure the value of improved output, e.g.:
o Increased Output Volume
o Reduced Scrap or Waste
o Reduced Labor Hours
o Reduced Machine Maintenance
o Reduced Turnover/Increased Retention
o Increased Sales
o New “Big Data” Technologies (e.g. sensors, GPS, etc.)
12. Use Existing Metrics
New Metrics:
Require new infrastructure
Sustained tracking overtime
Must be anchored in the
workflow
Incurs new labor costs
Requires time to gain
credibility
13. Maybe it’s not ROI; it’s ROM
Change in cultural ethos
Accomplishment of vision &
mission
Creation of good-will and/or
customer satisfaction
Visible adherence to stated
values and ethics
Societal Impact and
Corporate Citizenship (Roger
Kaufman’s #5)
14. Q&A: Discussion
Any questions related to
the presentation?
What’s your personal
experience?
Are you working on
anything right now that
discussion might help?
Notes de l'éditeur
Feeling Defensive?Assumes ROI is the important thing?If you are looking to defend your existence, the problem isn’t going to be solved with ROI.Lack of understanding of investments in human capitalLack of understanding of talent and performance management as integrated systems to ensure performance against strategic vision and objectives.That being said, there are ways to defend your existence…Calculate full cost of training, including professional development seminars, travel, consultants, across the corporation. Someone needs to be managing this.Calculate the full cost of management (Sum of Management Salaries). Who’s protecting that investment?Establish a Capital Asset Budget Model for T&D:Assess functional needsSubmit budgets central with justificationAllow Executives review and approve through the budget-cycle, based on relative importance to the strategic vision/plan.
What are you measuring? (Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels=1: Quality of the intervention (learning materials); 2: Acquisition; 3: Application; 4: Organizational Payoff Immediate answer is 4: organizational payoff, but do you have control over application? Do you have control over supervisor’s? 5: Social Contribution (Roger Kaufman’s)“Success-case” Evaluation (Robert Brinkerhoff) is about sustained performance
Does your organization care about competence (building up its human capital investment)Talent management systems require measure of “capacity for growth” in order to determine who to invest in as “high-potentials” and build bench-strengthDo you hold supervisors accountable for “% competence attained”?
Other Goals?What about training for compliance? Certification?What about investments in the future (Fetch competencies)?What’s the value of “networking” for expert workers?The CEO wants it…
Are there things you shouldn’t measure?Jobs requiring high levels of expertiseJobs with high levels of discretionary decision-makingJobs with idiosyncratic, unique, or unrepeatable outputDifficult to measure the value of non-repeatable output and probably not worth the cost in dollars or labor.