Author: Gautam Bhushan




Measuring the impact of your talent development initiatives


By Gautam Bhushan on Feb 02 2009 

So does a learning initiative lead to significant and direct gain? If so, how do you measure it? This is probably the most frequently asked question about talent development. There have been a number of books written on this subject and a professional organization - ASTD - which has a ROI Network that supports learning evaluators. Kirkpatrick, Jack Phillips and a number of others have dedicated years of research to finding out how to quantify learning effectiveness. As Lord Kelvin put it “When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it.” If all of this is so obvious, why don’t more people do it? Well for one…

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Dilemma of talent development in an economic downturn


By Gautam Bhushan on Jan 01 2009 

“Pay packets to shrink as slowdown dents growth”; “Worst is still to come….”; “Salary cuts of between 15% and 25% on the cards for…..” These are just some of the headlines screaming out of leading newspaper. So what does an organization do about talent development in such tough economic times – should it be treated like other operational levers which are pulled to reduce costs? My opinion? Now is the best time to invest in talent development. Sounds insane? No. Here’s why...

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