The training and development audit evolves: is your training and development budget wasted?

Presents a three-level model to enable the design and conduct of an audit of training and development developed from the authors' consultancy experience working with training and development managers and specialists from diverse medium and large organizations. Describes three levels - event/programme, function and organization levels. Considerably extends the framework first described by one of the authors in an earlier article. This extended model permits the benchmarking of training and development against established best practice. Use of the model enables the identification of where an organization's training and development can be considered successful and where challenges and opportunities for improvement exist.