Evaluation of classroom training also involves evaluating your own performance as a trainer and assessing the effectiveness of your training methods and presentation. Here’s how to get training evaluations during and after your training sessions:
- Use a survey. One of the most common ways to do this is to ask trainees for feedback, using some kind of survey or questionnaire to be completed at the end of the session or shortly afterward.
- Review test results to see if employees have actually learned what they were supposed to. If you give a pretest at the beginning of the session and a posttest at the end, you can compare results to see if your methods and presentation achieved the desired result.
- Look for behavior change on the job. Are employees actually using proper lifting techniques after your session on safe lifting? Are they following a new procedure correctly? Have disturbing incidents of harassment stopped after your class on diversity in the workplace?
- Look at overall performance. Are your employees performing better as a result of training? Are they more competent and confident? Are they more productive? Has quality improved? Are there fewer accidents? Fewer mistakes?
The above information comes from BLR’s presentation “Training Strategies II: State-of-the-Art Classroom Training.” For more information on all the training courses BLR has to offer, go to our Employee and Manager Training page.
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