As today's training or cross-functional manager, you face tight budgets and a focus on results for training dollars spent. This challenge is forcing you to demonstrate the effectiveness of company training investments. While most organizations evaluate participants reactions to training, they rarely measure the effect of that training on job performance behaviors and organizational objectives. Evaluation and assessments should be linked to organizational objectives, competency profiles, and intellectual capital development. Forward-looking organizations are recognizing and monitoring this trend in industry by linking training and assessment to strategic objectives. Learning how to use assessment tools today will spur the incorporation of your company's objectives into the training dollar you spend tomorrow. This series gives you the skills you need to assess training effectiveness with respect to business goals and objectives.