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Who is this for

Those responsible for sponsoring, managing or evaluating L&D Investment:

1. L&D Professionals including sponsors and providers
2. HR and OD practitioners

What you will get

Insight into the latest thinking related to:

• Designing in development impact
• Managing development performance
• Measuring and communicating the outcomes from development investment.

The opportunity to create an impact model for an existing or future development requirement, that will allow you to:

• Integrate the requirements of multiple development stakeholders
• Communicate the impact objectives and outcomes to sponsors, potential participants and suppliers
• Design in, manage and measure impact in a meaningful way
• Create collateral to market and celebrate the success of your development initiatives
• Learn what works and what doesn’t work within your specific context.

Why this process

For years Kirkpatrick and ROI methodologies have dominated L&D practitioners understanding of how to measure the impact of development expenditure.  But when used for management and leadership development, the existing approaches have serious limitations:

• It is potentially expensive to evaluate beyond reactions and learning
• Not all investment in leadership development is aimed at short term financial goals
• You cannot isolate the impact of leadership and management development investment from other activities, initiatives and factors that affect your organisations performance
• The complexity of leadership and contemporary development practices do not readily lend themselves to the linear logic of existing impact methods.

The workshop will focus on ÃÀ¼§¸ó’s unique approach to the design, management and measurement of impact, a process we call Design for Impact.

The approach:

• Is simple to use yet overcomes the challenges of linear approaches to impact measurement
• Is cost effective relying on the identification, management and measurement of impact drivers (the green shoots of change which will lead to more substantial, longer term changes)
• Provides both qualitative and quantitative data to understand the impact of investment
• Does not result in overestimates or unrealistic claims of the development’s success.

Structure

Typical agenda outlines:

• Why evaluate
• Evaluation methods and their limitations
• Introduction to Design for Impact
• Impact drivers exercise for your organisation.

What you will experience

• Challenge the common logic of impact that underpins traditional methods of evaluation
• The opportunity to view your development designs through new lenses to help identify both positive and negative potential consequences
• Hands on practice creating an impact model for a development initiative of your choice.

Programme Director

Dr Wendy Shepherd

Director of Individual and Organisational Impact