Other Benefits
Benefits of training have been documented for variables other than organizational performance. Again, many of these additional out comes are related to performance indirectly.
For example, Sirianni & Frey (2001) evaluated the effectiveness of a nine month leadership development program at a financial services company with presence in Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Participants included 29 service and operations market managers, district managers, and a regional president. The 13 training modules (e.g., managing conflict, motivating others, priority setting) were delivered in three hour sessions every two weeks. Measures of program effectiveness included ratings offered by participants as well as other objective measures including regional scorecard results, which were collected on a monthly basis and used to determine service quality. Data collected approximately at the beginning and end of the training program suggested that, at a regional level, there were improvements on six of the seven scorecard components: overall teller errors, teller out of balance, number of deposit slips left in envelopes, business retention, teller secret shopper ratings, and new account secret shopper surveys.