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Evaluating the return

Overview

Without a clear and robust picture of how well your organisation is performing, it is difficult to know whether your investment in people management and learning and development is effective, or whether you need to make improvements.

Measuring the impact of your investment can take various forms, and Profile challenges management to adopt a range of measures and techniques, that provide a deep and detailed picture of performance. These include external assessments, but also self-review to monitor your own performance.

Fundamentally, the "Review" principle of Profile is about introducing improvement - not just to learning and development, but across all your people management strategies - as a result of evaluation. It looks at how deeply embedded the culture of continuous improvement is within the organisation.

Effective evaluation depends on forward planning, working out how activities contribute to the objectives in your strategies. It should also include how success will be judged, and what the approach will be to gathering feedback and measuring impact.

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Highlight:  Approaches to measuring effectiveness and ROI
Profile's principles of "Plan, Do and Review" depend on organisations evaluating activity and establishing the value that it has contributed as part of their planning cycles.... read more


3  Articles
Choosing business measures to monitor

3  Case studies
Hager UK
London Heathrow Marriott
Lyness Accountancy

3  Good practice
Evaluating the return

3  Web links
CIPD - corporate strategy
CBI
Institute of Directors
Business Link
Institute of Employment Studies

3  Publications
An overview of the Profile framework
Understanding Profile

 

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