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National Training Calendar04-Apr-2013

(http://www.groupworksolutions.com.au/BookingRetrieve.aspx?ID=100893) Groupwork Solutions speci..

Special event - Group work with challenging clients with Dr. Fred Bemak, USA @ Western Sydney03-Apr-2013

This workshop provides participants with the skills and knowledge to more effectively work with ..

Useful exercises for group leadership28-Feb-2013

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Transformative group work - Using the Campfire Process26-Feb-2013

The Campfire process The Objective:– The Campfire (King, 2011) involves writing a s..

What is generativity? Plus 12 tools to use24-Jan-2013

The generative stage, developed by Erik Erikson (1950) as part of his eight life stages of devel..

The Men’s Handbook by Terry Norman17-Dec-2012

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Why involving fathers is critical when working with vulnerable families03-May-2012

Men are often seen as invisible within families for a wide range of reasons. While this extract ..

Institute of Group Leaders Conference - Sydney 10-Feb-2012

The 2013 Institute of Group Leaders Conference - Creating cultures of caring: Achie..

Registrations are now open - National Men's Health Gathering 201309-Feb-2012

(This event includes the National Men and Vulnerable Families Forum) REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN..

Survival Cards - Ways to cope in life (Downloadable version and pack)04-Feb-2012

Attribution Theory is one of the four great social science cornerstones used when working ..

Summary of international research into supporting vulnerable communities and involving fathers.18-Jan-2012

Father-child relationships – be they positive, negative or lacking, and at any stage in th..

Is your workplace using a whole-of-family approach when working with vulnerable communities?16-Jan-2012

To build strength and reduce risk in vulnerable families, fathers need to be included as part of..

Evidence based practice summary – Why involving fathers is essential!01-Mar-2011

Contents Fathers’ attachment to their children. 2 Rough and tumble play. 3 Research a..

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2011 Post-Workshop Feedback Results

Three months after workshops are completed, participants are asked to provide feedback about their learning experience, what they hold onto, how they have put that learning into practice and the difference it has made to their work.

Kirkpatrick (2010) identified the following levels as a tool to improve evaluation of training programs. The more feedback informs the 4th level of evaluation results, the greater is the Return on Expectations (ROE) and Return on Investment (ROI) for the organisation.

2011 Groupwork post-workshop evaluation dashboard

2011 Working with men post-workshop evaluation dashboard

Level 4: Results and impact of the training	To what degree targeted outcomes occur, as a result of the learning events and subsequent reinforcement.
Level 3: Behaviour change	To what degree participants apply what they learned during training when they are back on the job.
Level 2: Learning from training	To what degree the participants acquire the intended knowledge, skills and attitudes based on their participation in the learning event.
Level 1: Reaction to training	To what degree participants react favorably to the learning event.

2009-2012 Workshop Feedback Outcomes

There are few training organisations that publicly display their workshop feedback summaries. Groupwork Solutions recognises this as an important standard and encourages all other training organisations to adopt the same practice. Workshops facilitated using other organisation's feedback forms are not included, but the following outcomes are still achieved.

Our training workshop satisfaction ratings remain consistently at or above 85%.

2012 key outcomes (2011, 2010, 2009 figures)

86% (87%, 86%, 88%) of participants thought the workshop achieved what they expected.
95% (95%, 92%, 92%) of the participants thought the workshop was pitched at the right level.
97% (91%, 97%) of participants reported the facilitator’s attitude was very good to great.
98% (99%, 93%, 96%) of participants reported the facilitator’s knowledge of the subject was very good to great.
93% (97%, 88%, 86%) of participants reported the way the course was run was very good to great
58% (61%, 61%, 67%) of participants who completed evaluations reported the handouts were very useful.

Feedback summary for 2009-2012

		2009	2009 %	2010	2010 %	2011	2011 %	2012	2012 %
Total no. of participants		301		675		269		729
Total workshops		14		47		24		51
Total no. of completed evaluations		216	72%	522	77%	254	94%	633	86%
Expectation?	Yes	189	88%	445	86%	222	87%	542	86%
	Partly	25	12%	77	14%	21	8%	81	13%
	No	0	0%	1	0%	0	0%	7	1%
Level of training	Too High	3	1%	7	1%	4	2%	10	2%
	Just Right	198	92%	471	93%	242	95%	599	95%
	Too Low	9	4%	33	6%	7	3%	17	3%
Facilitator's Attitude - Poor	1	0	0%	1	0%	0	0%	0	0%
	2	1	0%	6	1%	0	0%	1	.1%
Okay	3	7	3%	30	6%	1	.2%	18	3%
	4	53	25%	119	23%	48	19%	142	18%
Great	5	155	72%	357	68%	205	81%	473	75%
Facilitator's Knowledge - Poor	1	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	1	.1%
	2	0	0%	4	1%	0	0%	0	0%
Okay	3	8	4%	21	4%	3	1%	11	2%
	4	34	16%	104	20%	35	14%	131	21%
Great	5	172	80%	379	73%	216	85%	489	77%
Way the workshop was run - Poor	1	0	0%	3	1%	0	0%	0	0%
	2	3	1%	11	2%	0	0%	4	1%
Okay	3	26	12%	51	10%	8	3%	39	6%
	4	68	31%	175	34%	66	26%	176	28%
Great	5	119	55%	271	54%	175	69%	410	65%
Handouts	Not enough	8	4%	13	2%	10	4%	17	3%
	Ok	59	27%	142	27%	77	30%	228	36%
	Very useful	145	67%	317	61%	156	61%	366	58%