(Berrett-Koehler: San Francisco) -- At last, an answer to the question that has bedeviled trainers for decades: How do you make the business case for training? Predictive evaluation enables you to effectively and accurately forecast training’s value to your company, measure against these predictions, establish indicators to track your progress (and make midcourse corrections if needed), and report the results in a language that business executives respond to and understand. It’s an approach that can be used for any sort of training program, in any setting, whether planned, newly implemented, or long-established.

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