Beyond Learning Objectives: Develop Measurable Objectives That Link to the Bottom Line

by Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips

For decades, the emphasis in the training and development has been upon instructional objectives. But today’s organizations demand attention to higher-level objectives—objectives that clearly provide business impact and value and satisfy the expectations of key stakeholders. If you’re involved in implementing projects, programs, initiatives, or solutions in your organization, Beyond Learning Objectives is the must-have guidebook that can help you meet these new expectations. This title provides step-by-step processes for defining, measuring, and developing six types of input, reaction, learning, application, impact, and ROI. You’ll also have help avoiding common pitfalls in the development of objectives, such as unclear, incomplete, nonspecific or even missing objectives. Ch. 1: Why Bother? The Importance of Objectives. Ch. 2: Where Do Objectives Come From? Ch. 3: Input Objectives Ch. 4: Reaction Objectives Ch. 5: Learning Objectives Ch. 6: Application Objectives Ch. 7: Impact Objectives Ch. 8: ROI Objectives Ch. 9 Pulling Objectives All Together References/Appendices Index Jack J. Phillips is the creator of the ROI Methodology, a revolutionary process that provides bottom-line accountability for organizational programs. With a PhD in human resource management and more than 25 years corporate experience, Phillips no consults with Fortune 500 companies and has published extensively with more than 50 titles to his credit. Patricia Pulliam Phillips, PhD., is president and CEO of the ROI Institute. She has extensive experience in helping organizations implement ROI programs. She is committed to ongoing research and practice and currently focuses on programs in workforce and community development in the social sector. Phillips holds a PhD in international development and has written 15 books on the subject of measureable performance.

135 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 2, 2008

Reviews

[Kevin Parkinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great resource for those in professional learning. Helpful, practical, and quick.

[Carolyn Fitzpatrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

When developing objectives for the classroom, it is valuable to develop input objectives and reaction objectives as well as learning objectives. When developing professional development for faculty, those three categories should be developed as well as application, impact, and (in some cases) ROI objectives.

[Garland Vance · Rating 3 out of 5]

While this is certainly not an amazing page-turner where you can't wait to get to the next part, it does provide some good insights for develop measurements for training programs. I would love to see more ministries and churches incorporate objectives into their training, and I think this book provides a good place to start thinking about it.