Return on Investment

-If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. - Professor Irwin Corey.

In today's competitive training market, it is increasingly important to provide management with measures of performance that can be used to quantify the return on investment in training. Traditional resistance on the part of instructional design practitioners has resulted in lowered funding levels and the dilution of the importance once accorded to training programs. This result is diametrically opposed to the stated aims of the training development organization: to achieve the greatest performance improvement. Therefore, if the aims of the training development organization are to be realized, the demonstration of measurable return on investment for training is just as important as creation of processes whereby performance can be improved.