Beyond Learning Objectives

by Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips

Today's organizations demand a focus on higher-level objectives―objectives that clearly provide business impact and value and satisfy the expectations of a wide range of key stakeholders.

If you're involved in implementing projects, programs, initiatives, or solutions in your organization, Beyond Learning Objectives can help you meet these new expectations. This book provides step-by-step processes for defining, measuring, and developing six types of objectives: input, reaction, learning, application, impact, and ROI. You'll also learn to avoid common pitfalls in the development of objectives, such as unclear, incomplete, nonspecific, or even missing objectives. And you'll learn how well crafted, results-driven objectives can satisfy the needs of all your stakeholders.

With this book in your hands, you can become a champion of well-defined objectives, providing direction, focus, and guidance. By spelling out expectations, creating commitment, and positioning your initiatives for success, you'll help your organization align its programs with its results and leap forward into the state-of-the-art world of measurable performance.

176 pages, Paperback

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.