This book provides a guide to the process of accrediting training
programs, sets out how to achieve consistent measurement of the results
of training, and explains why accreditation is critical for capturing
and developing today's workers' skills, aiding retention, and boosting
strategic organizational credibility with millennials.
Workplace and executive training is a multi-billion dollar industry and
yet an enormous percentage of that budget is spent on programs that have
never been rigorously examined to ensure that they are fit for purpose
and deliver value for the money.
If you're signing off on that budget, or asking your people to spend
time on training programs, shouldn't that concern you?
Training accreditation offers vital quality assurance, ensures global
consistency of results and delivers accountability for learning and
performance outcomes.
Apart from delivering better results and greater ROI, organizations can
differentiate themselves from their competitors in the employment
marketplace by offering accredited proprietary training. After all,
digital natives, and indeed all of today's most talented potential
employees, expect (and increasingly demand) the high quality, engaging
and transferable employee development that only accredited programs can
deliver.
Aligning with the standards set by the International Association of
Continuing Education and Training (IACET) - today's premier
accreditation body for training programs - the authors offer principles
for quality program structure, delivery, and improvement needed to
achieve accreditation.
They share practices used by high quality training program managers
today, covering business alignment and program administration along with
the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of learning systems.
