Dave Basarab, Founder V.A.L.E. Consulting

Speaking of thankful, I'm so very grateful about the initial interest in my upcoming Predictive Evaluation book tour. As a reminder, I'll be traveling the country, starting in January 2011, providing more insight and answering questions about how trainers and business leaders can most effectively use the Predictive Evaluation model. I'm currently booking speaking opportunities with local chapters of training organizations - such as ASTD, ISPI, SHRM, American Evaluation Association and others. If you are involved in a local organization and want to discuss the logistics of having me speak at an upcoming chapter meeting, please contact my publicist, Adrienne Walkowiak, at 

What is Predictive Evaluation?

THU, DEC. 9, 2010 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Predictive Evaluation creator Dave Basarab will share his new evaluation model.  Predictive Evaluation the first and only training and evaluation approach that adds the element of prediction.   Using the Predictive Evaluation Model, trainers and business leaders can now successfully predict training's results, value, intention, adoption and impact, allowing them to make smarter, more strategic training and evaluation investments.

In this webinar you will learn:

• What is Predictive Evaluation?
• Predicting the Value of Training
• Intention Evaluation
• Adoption Evaluation
• Impact Evaluation

Improving Training Transfer

TUE, DEC. 14, 2010 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Dave Basarab has helped numerous companies increase their rate of participants successfully transferring skills from training to the workplace. In many cases they have increased training transfer from a starting point 15% to 70% and more.  Dave will share his proven Training Transfer Tips that you can implement in your company. You don't want to miss this session!

In this webinar you will learn:

• What is Training Transfer?
• Training Transfer Tips - Design for Transfer
• Training Transfer Tips - Pre-course
• Training Transfer Tips - In-course
• Training Transfer Tips - Post-course

As Thanksgiving approaches, I'm counting my blessings and feeling very lucky to be in a career that inspires and excites me. I'm also thankful that my new book, Predictive Evaluation, will launch in less than two months, and thrilled about the "buzz" that's building around its release. A few more options are now available if you're interested in pre-ordering Predictive Evaluation.  To pre-order, visit:

An extension to the renowned Kirkpatrick and Brinkerhoff Models, Predictive Evaluation explains how trainers and business leaders can use the Predictive Evaluation (PE) Model to successfully predict training's results, value, intention, adoption and impact, allowing for smarter, more strategic training and evaluation investments.  Predictive evaluation enables you to effectively and accurately forecast training's value to your company, measure against these predictions, establish indicators to track your progress (and make mid-course corrections if needed), and report the results in a language that business executives respond to and understand. It's an approach that can be used for any sort of training program, in any setting, whether planned, newly implemented, or long established. This book will be invaluable for companies that struggle to define training's success, fight to justify training's value to their organization or view training as an expense rather than an investment with predicted return.

Predictive Evaluation is endorsed by prestigious industry leaders Donald L. Kirkpatrick, PhD and James D. Kirkpatrick, PhD, who also wrote the book's foreword.

Excerpt from Predictive Evaluation foreword by Donald L. Kirkpatrick and James D. Kirkpatrick:

"Predictive evaluation will greatly enhance training's acceptance as a business function like any other, one where projections are made, progress is measured, and effectiveness is definitely determined. Rather than being regarded as an expense and an act of faith, training will be seen as an investment with a concrete payoff."