Are you getting the results you want from your leadership and management training?
Assessing the workplace impact of leadership and management training and measuring ROI will always be an inexact science. However, it can be done.
Impellus has created a customer guide to help organisations harness the power of leadership and management training, create a culture of continuous improvement and measure the return on your investment.
Download your guide to maximising training ROI
The guide covers:
- Measuring ROI (return on investment).
- How to help delegates prepare for and get the most out of their Impellus training.
- The importance of follow-up.
- Monitoring change.
- Consolidating and implementing learning.
Measuring ROI
Organisations that are committed to training and development and understand its crucial importance to overall success must take an active role in measuring ROI. This is vital to gain a clear and demonstrable understanding of the return on your investment.
A strategy to measure ROI should be a key part of your overall training plan from the start – not an afterthought. You will need to be clear about:
- What you want the training to achieve (your objectives).
- How the objectives align with your organisation’s overall goals and targets.
- How you will evaluate if those objectives have been achieved.
Our guide offers a financial model to measure ROI as well as the well-established Kirkpatrick Model.
Delegate preparation
To encourage buy-in and commitment, it’s important to collaborate with your colleagues when selecting the most appropriate training options for your organisation. You can also ask our in-house experts for advice on the best Impellus courses to plug any skills gaps that you have identified.
Find more key advice on how to ensure your delegates get the most out of their training in our guide.
The importance of follow-up
The end of a training course should be just the beginning.
The starting point for Impellus delegates is their workbook which should now be an invaluable mine of information, including their own notes and personal action plan which all delegates complete at the end of an Impellus course. This personal action plan asks delegates to record their key learning points from the course and what actions they will be taking to immediately improve their performance in the workplace.
Our guide also explains how an appropriate manager can work with the delegate to establish how the delegate will implement their action plan.
Monitoring change
As part of your follow-up activities, stay alert to what is happening in your organisation and any step changes that occur as a result of the leadership and management training your staff have taken with Impellus.
For example, are previously unproductive and counterproductive behaviours and ways of working being dropped? Are new and more efficient methodologies being introduced? Are the old ‘that’s the way we’ve always done things’ mindsets disappearing? Is productivity on the rise? Staff turnover stabilising?
Consolidate and implement with Impellus
A highly effective way to consolidate learning and ensure immediate and longer-term improvements in the workplace is for delegates to attend consolidation and implementation sessions. Impellus has developed a range of these to suit both individuals and groups within your organisation:
Bite-sized implementation sessions: revisit a key concept, idea or technique in under two hours.
Group-facilitated implementation sessions: post-training collaboration in-house to apply learning to specific organisational challenges.
ILM workshops: collaboration, mutual support and an emphasis on the practical and vocational application of ILM study.
Accelerated personal development programmes: high-impact one-to-one sessions to clarify learning, identify next steps and explore remaining challenges.
