Three months after workshops are completed, participants are asked to provide feedback about their learning experience, what they hold onto, how they have put that learning into practice and the difference it has made to their work.
Kirkpatrick (2010) identified the following levels as a tool to improve evaluation of training programs. The more feedback informs the 4th level of evaluation results, the greater is the Return on Expectations (ROE) and Return on Investment (ROI) for the organisation.
Level 4: Results and impact of the training |
To what degree targeted outcomes occur, as a result of the learning events and subsequent reinforcement. |
Level 3: Behaviour change |
To what degree participants apply what they learned during training when they are back on the job. |
Level 2: Learning from training |
To what degree the participants acquire the intended knowledge, skills and attitudes based on their participation in the learning event. |
Level 1: Reaction to training |
To what degree participants react favourably to the learning event. |
There are few training organisations that publicly display their workshop feedback summaries. Groupwork Solutions recognises this as an important standard and encourages all other training organisations to adopt the same practice. Workshops facilitated using other organisation's feedback forms are not included, but the following outcomes are still achieved.
Our training workshop satisfaction ratings remain consistently at or above 85%.
2015 key outcomes (2014, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 figures)
90% (86%, 88%, 86%, 87%, 86%, 88%) of participants thought the workshop achieved what they expected.
95% (88%, 93%, 93%, 95%, 95%, 92%) of the participants thought the workshop was pitched at the right level.
96% (97%, 96%, 97%, 91%, 97%) of participants reported the facilitator’s attitude was very good to great.
97% (97%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 93%, 96%) of participants reported the facilitator’s knowledge of the subject was very good to great.
91% (97%, 93%, 93%, 97%, 88%, 86%) of participants reported the way the course was run was very good to great
63% (62%, 63%, 58%, 61%, 61%, 67%) of participants who completed evaluations reported the handouts were very useful. Most people report that they are still to read them.
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|
2011 |
2011% |
2012 |
2012% |
2013 |
2013% |
2014 |
2014% |
2015 |
2015% |
Total no. of participants |
269 |
|
729 |
|
495 |
|
601 |
|
766 |
|
|
No. of workshops days |
24 |
|
51 |
|
54 |
|
134 |
|
60 |
|
|
Total no. of completed evaluations |
254 |
94% |
633 |
86% |
479 |
97% |
502 |
89% |
717 |
94% |
|
Expectation met |
Yes |
222 |
87% |
542 |
86% |
420 |
88% |
456 |
86% |
642 |
90% |
|
Partly |
21 |
8% |
81 |
13% |
53 |
11% |
66 |
12% |
65 |
9% |
|
No |
0 |
0% |
7 |
1% |
3 |
1% |
3 |
1% |
4 |
1% |
Level of training |
Too High |
4 |
2% |
10 |
3% |
13 |
3% |
9 |
3% |
7 |
1% |
|
Just Right |
242 |
95% |
599 |
95% |
445 |
93% |
469 |
88% |
678 |
95% |
|
Too Low |
7 |
3% |
17 |
3% |
14 |
3% |
47 |
9% |
25 |
3% |
Facilitator's Attitude - Poor |
1 |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
|
2 |
0 |
0% |
1 |
.1% |
1 |
.1% |
0 |
0% |
2 |
.01% |
Okay |
3 |
1 |
.2% |
18 |
3% |
18 |
4% |
14 |
3% |
20 |
3% |
|
4 |
48 |
19% |
142 |
18% |
76 |
16% |
114 |
21% |
131 |
18% |
Great |
5 |
205 |
81% |
473 |
75% |
384 |
80% |
404 |
76% |
560 |
78% |
Facilitator's Knowledge - Poor |
1 |
0 |
0% |
1 |
0.1% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
|
2 |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
3 |
.01% |
Okay |
3 |
3 |
1% |
11 |
2% |
14 |
3% |
9 |
2% |
14 |
2% |
|
4 |
35 |
14% |
131 |
21% |
73 |
15% |
82 |
15% |
112 |
15% |
Great |
5 |
216 |
85% |
489 |
77% |
392 |
82% |
438 |
82% |
585 |
82% |
Way the workshop was run - Poor |
1 |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 |
0% |
0 | 0% |
|
2 |
0 |
0% |
4 |
1% |
6 |
1% |
4 |
1% |
6 |
1% |
Okay |
3 |
8 |
3% |
39 |
6% |
29 |
6% |
50 |
9% |
51 |
7% |
|
4 |
66 |
26% |
176 |
28% |
110 |
23% |
150 |
28% |
163 |
23% |
Great |
5 |
175 |
69% |
410 |
65% |
333 |
70% |
324 |
61% | 490 |
68% |
Handouts |
Not enough |
10 |
4% |
17 |
3% |
17 |
4% |
18 |
3% |
15 |
2% |
|
Ok |
77 |
30% |
228 |
36% |
110 |
23% |
167 |
31% |
232 |
32% |
|
Very useful |
156 |
61% |
366 |
58% |
304 |
63% |
329 |
62% |
450 |
63% |
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