Not Even 50/50 - What Training Measurement Can Tell You

Here is a statistic that is alarming when you consider all the time, money and effort that goes into corporate learning and development these days: less than 50% of the 10,000 employees surveyed by the corporate executive board in 100 global organizations felt that their managers were effective at planning and executing on employee development.

Though this is not good news, it is important news.

Now you know that something needs to change if you want real performance improvement. And now you know that it is critical that you begin with the managers.

Managers need to learn how to use their time with employees more effectively. It probably will be a combination of learning better coaching skills, improving performance conversations, giving more useful feedback, making development plans more relevant to actual job skill needs, etc. Once they improve, your training measurement should look very different. When managers are effective at development, their employees are more committed to their jobs, perform better than their peers, and are less likely to leave.