Presented by:

Don Kirkpatrick, Author, Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels; Professor Emeritus, U of Wisconsin; Chairman Emeritus, SMR USA

Jim Kirkpatrick, Co-Author, Implementing the Four Levels; VP, Global Training and Consulting, SMR USA

Joined by colleagues:
Jim Hashman, Division Director, Sales L&D, Comcast Cable
Diederick Stoel, President, Executive Consultant from ProfitWise, Inc (the Netherlands)
Mike Woodard, Chief Learning Officer, Georgia Pacific, Inc.
Wendy Kirkpatrick, training manager for Hunter Douglas, Inc.

Join the originators of four-step training evaluation, Don and Jim Kirkpatrick, for the senior-level Kirkpatrick Evaluation Summit, and discover how to truly meet the needs of your key business partners.

Don and Jim will lead you on a practical, interactive journey through the Kirkpatrick Four Levels of Evaluation, and teach you how to improve programs, leverage training to increase impact to the business, and demonstrate the value to your key stakeholders.

With best practice case studies from major corporations, you will learn to identify and monitor drivers that will ensure maximum effectiveness of learning to the bottom line.At the end of this Summit, you will return to your workplace better equipped to:

• Identify expectations for the impact of training, and negotiate measurable outcomes of success.
• Create value to the business, and demonstrate that value, with an execution plan created with a modified version of the ADDIE Model.
• Increase the transfer of learning to behavior with important Level 3 methods and tools.
• Use targeted four-level evaluation tools to evaluate any course or program, including instructions.
• Pull together targeted evidence and data to present a compelling argument to business stakeholders as to the value of training to the bottom line.
• Leverage key cultural and strategic forces within your organization in order to enhance the partnership between training and the business, and to maximize overall results.

Course Methods/How Will I Learn?
Varying learning styles will be accommodated by using a variety of instructional methods including presentation, discussion, break out groups, teach backs by participants, best practice case studies, peer critique, and action planning.

Assessment Methods
Will include a pre and post test by Don, critique of activities and presentations by participants, and critique of homework.

Pre-work/Homework
Includes pre-read and critique, after day-one assignment, and follow up work that will be critiqued by the leaders.

Prerequisites:
None

Technology Requirements:
There are no technology requirements to participate in this certificate.

This certificate is designed for anyone who is responsible for design, development, and delivery of training programs, and leaders who are responsible to meet the needs of the business. Also invited would be business leaders interested in enhancing the effectiveness of their training programs.