Training penetration rate
measures the percentage of employees completing a course or a content area of trainng compared to total number of employees employed
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July 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
KPI’s only make sense if a benchmark is being ‘chased’ or maintained. There should be industry recommended benchmarks for for all KPI’s …. e.g. staff turnover rates etc. Wouldn’t it be helpful to publish the industry recommended ‘targets’ for these KPI’s?
Thanks
July 25th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Training Penetration is often referred to as “retention”. This means that after a training session a follow up test is undertaken say 3 months later. The difference in scores between the immediate after training test, and the later one is referred to as Training Retention (at least in our organisation). The TR figure should always be +ve else the person is forgetting what they have been taiught.
September 12th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Training Penetration and Retention are 2 differents things altogether. Training Penetration is a measure of reach, i.e. what percentage of the employee population actually got trained. For this, the normally desirable benchmark is 100% penetration, nothing less.
As for Retention, it is as defined by coinneach. Retention rates can vary depending on the nature of the training intervention. If it is on the job training, very likely it should be +ve. Whereas for developmental programs where application may not be that straightforward, e.g. applying Six Sigma tools, expect a drop in retention rate.