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Did you know that you can add Kirkpatrick to your skills and expertise in your LinkedIn profile? Those who are Kirkpatrick certified qualify for this new endorsement.

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Jim Kirkpatrick will celebrate his 60th birthday on Thursday, April 18! Log in and leave a comment below to wish Jim a very happy birthday. Also, ...

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Jim Kirkpatrick spoke to a full house on March 8 at the 2013 Analytics Symposium in Miami, FL. The enthusiasm for the Kirkpatrick Model ...

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On February 13-14, 2013, Maha Khatib, a Certified Facilitator for Kirkpatrick Partners, facilitated a bronze level certification program in India. ...

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Kirkpatrick Partners has formed a new strategic partnership with KnowledgeAdvisors, the world's leading learning analytics company.

Pairing the Kirkpatrick methodology with the tools that KnowledgeAdvisors offers to help organizations allocate human capital investments will better equip training professionals to become true strategic business partners who offer high-yield training.

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Alan finished up his program and distributed the evaluation forms. Participants completed the evaluations, left them in the designated location, thanked him for a good program and departed. Alan flipped through the forms to make sure the comments were positive and then filed them in a folder.

Does this scenario sound familiar? As we work with training professionals around the world, many admit with concern that they think they are not doing the “right” things with the evaluation data they collect.

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Here are our most popular discussion posts from the last few weeks:

Interview questions level 3 - pointers?
"Hello, We've been working on Kirkpatrick style evaluations across levels 1-4 for a while now, though we've concentrated mainly on surveys and are looking to beef up our level 3s with interviews now..."

Level 4 is Taboo...
"I always feel like level 4 is a taboo in evaluation. Little research seems to be available and interestingly the previous discussion on this board started by Catherine several months ago only had two responses..."

I'm looking for ideas for measuring the impact of our training programs on the organization's overall performance.
"We're analyzing metrics related to cost of training, number of hours and participants, etc, but I'd like to look at metrics that look at the impact of our training programs overall on performance, new hire speed to productivity, and behavior change..."

Web Based Evaluation Information System
"Good Morning Fellow Group Members: I am searching for a web-based training evaluation information system that allows training delegates to complete training evaluation online and feed results to a central location..."

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Wendy Kirkpatrick Receives Emerging Training Leaders Award

The current issue of Training magazine includes an announcement of the winners of their Emerging Training Leaders award. We are proud to announce that Wendy Kirkpatrick has been selected as one of these exceptional, business-savvy training leaders.

Wendy is applauded for her resilience in this changing industry, which demands the global mindset and strategic thinking that she demonstrates daily.

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Kirkpatrick Partners is a provider of training evaluation and business partnership training, products, consulting and impact studies. Our work is based on the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model created by Donald L. Kirkpatrick in 1954 as part of his PhD dissertation on the evaluation of the effectiveness of training for supervisors. It is expanded by the Kirkpatrick Business Partnership Model and Kirkpatrick Foundational Principles.

Instead of training ROI, we focus on training return on expectations (ROE). This is a more holistic measurement of all of the benefits realized from a program or initiative, both qualitative and quantitative. We offer courses and workshops on training evaluation and business partnership that equip training professionals to create, demonstrate and measure the business results and value their training yields or supports.

Donald (Don), James (Jim), and Wendy Kirkpatrick are pleased to be united as Kirkpatrick Partners. Whether you want to earn your Kirkpatrick certification or simply create more value in your organization, we are here to help. Our programs are valuable whether you are a corporate employee, member of government or an independent consultant.

The Kirkpatricks are the authors of nine books, including Evaluating Training Programs, Implementing the Four Levels, Transferring Learning to Results, Kirkpatrick Then and Now, Training on Trial, and The Brunei Window Washer: Bringing Business Partnership to Life.
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