Training Program Evaluation

Running head: TRAINING PROGRAM EVALUATION 1
Developing individuals, leaders, and organizations
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TRAINING PROGRAM EVALUATION 2
Developing Individuals, Leaders, and Organizations
Kirkpatrick developed the model for determining and evaluating the implications of
training and educational activities. The four levels of assessment consider the training style
whether formal or informal while delineating the level of the training program (Tan & Newman,
2013). Kirkpatrick’s evaluation framework considers the fact that training is a process. Notably,
there is nothing worse than working in a situation that expects you to perform something, but
there is no potential to do it. Training courses facilitate trainees to acquire skills that are essential
for the performance assigned duties (Légaré et al., 2015). Employers need to train and offer
refresher courses to employees on how to maximize their potential to contribute to the attainment
of organization goals. Kirkpatrick’s four-level evaluation framework helps in defining every
level of training programs.
Not all training skills qualify to undergo the four levels of the evaluation framework.
However, the development of technical and soft skills qualifies for Kirkpatrick’s framework. On
the other hand, orientation and onboard training may be problematic or impossible to go through
the four levels of the assessment framework (Kurt, 2018). In the words of Abdulghani et al.
(2014), the evaluation of training extent for employees depends on the nature of training and the
intended ends. Whenever employers want to determine the extent to which their employees have
understood the training program, they are bound to apply the criteria to determine the success or
failures of the process.
Technical and soft skills development training are procedural exercises that involve the
evaluation of employees understanding at various levels. The discipline of analysis and content
writing requires managers to keep track of the perceptions of the employees regarding the
exercise, assess their knowledge of the activity, check whether they have understood the process,