As a designer with evaluation expertise, I appreciate EnVision’s focus on ensuring clients go beyond “satisfaction surveys” and do indeed receive the desired outcomes from their training investments. It was rewarding when one client was able to apply EnVision’s evaluation tools as templates for measuring effectiveness and business impact for future development work, including those that serve also to reinforce and sustain learning.

— Marilyn Kobus, Senior Consultant

Understanding how learners not only “hear” information, but then go on to apply ideas and concepts on their jobs is an important tool for Learning and Development professionals. Yet, the evaluation phase of a project often seems to fall off the design table! At a recent ATD (Association for Talent Development) conference, I learned just how critical the evaluation process is, and specific steps that I could apply immediately to my own programs by attending “Evaluation Plans: Polishing Your Own Gems,” a workshop facilitated by Irene Stern Frielich… For me, a key takeaway was her strong emphasis on “When does evaluation start? At the beginning, as part of the design process.”

— Trisha Griffin-Carty, Griffin-Carty Communications