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Building a Culture of Evaluation

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Building a Culture of Evaluation

The New Kirkpatrick Model for Performance and Innovation

ATD (Association for Talent Development),

15 min. de leitura
9 Ideias Fundamentais
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Evaluating organizational performance can do more than measure impact — it can help create it.


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Are your organization’s investments in training, change programs, and new technologies failing to generate meaningful results? In this comprehensive, modern guide to the New Kirkpatrick Model, veteran instructional designer and Kirkpatrick Partners CEO Vanessa Milara Alzate shows how treating evaluation as an integrated, organization-wide practice supports organizational performance and growth. Alzate covers the fundamentals of linking learning and behavior to organizational outcomes and dedicates chapters to specific applications, including onboarding, leadership development, cultural change, and AI initiatives.

Summary

A culture of evaluation supports organizational agility, innovation, continuous improvement, and growth.

To gain the most from evaluation, you must approach it as an ongoing rather than a one-time process. A culture of evaluation serves as a foundation for a culture of continuous improvement through data-driven decision-making. It allows learning and development (L&D) professionals to demonstrate the impact of their efforts and to serve as strategic partners. For organizations, it supports better decision-making and value creation — and, in turn, greater growth, innovation, and agility. ​​​​​​

A culture of evaluation is forward-looking and proactive, drawing on continuous feedback loops to drive process optimization, innovation, and rapid pivots. To establish a culture of evaluation, an organization needs to build stakeholders’ commitment to the process, foster the courage and trust necessary for feedback, set up an evaluation framework and tools to support it, and establish structured communication loops to facilitate the flow of feedback.

The New Kirkpatrick Model can help organizations align initiatives with meaningful outcomes.

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About the Author

Vanessa Milara Alzate is a veteran instructional designer, learning strategist, and performance consultant. She’s the owner and CEO of Kirkpatrick Partners and founder and CEO of Anchored Training. Ted Kniker is an internationally recognized expert and business consultant in organizational performance improvement, program evaluation, strategic transformation, and culture change. Anna Lissitz is a consultant specializing in psychometrics and a professor of data analytics at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. Melanie Martinelli is CEO of the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness and a consultant specializing in L&D strategy. Myra Roldan, a leading voice on new and emerging technologies in business, is CEO of UnDesto AI. Ina Weinbauer-Heidel is founder of the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, where she currently serves as senior researcher. 


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