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ROI Workshop: Scotland

abdi are pleased to announce the launch of our first ROI Foundation Certificate workshop to be held in Edinburgh.

The workshop provides a fantastic opportunity to learn a step by step process of planning, measuring and evaluation using the ROI Methodology, and can lead to a nationally accredited ROI qualification.
More information
Register online

Future open-booking workshops

ROI Foundation Certificate courses: Scotland
30-31 March

abdi ROI Foundation Award courses
21-22 June 2010
20-21 Sept 2010
15-16 Nov 2010

abdi ROI Evaluator Award courses
7-9 June 2010
17-19 Nov 2010

'Marvellous course and just what I needed'
'A transforming experience'

ROI is a key tool for managing L&D and HR objectives and budgets.
Make yourself one of the smart practitioners who can bring Gold Standard impact planning and evaluation to your organisation – reserve your place on one of our 2010 courses now.

Latest abdi ROI Awards

Many congratulations to the latest group of successful award candidates.

Peter Gray - Deputy Dean, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, York’s St. John University
Paul Rafferty - Professional Development Clinical Educator, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Andrew Strawbridge - Lead Educator, Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Claire Attwood - Information Governance Office, City Health Care Partnership, Hull
Zeinab Abdel Wahab Sayed - Corporate Resources Manager, Seasons, Egypt

And do not forget ....
If you were ROI trained by us before the summer of 2008 and would like to see how you can get accreditation - you will not have to sit the course again. Please get in touch.

NHS Survey

Abdi would like to say thank you to everyone from Yorkshire and Humber NHS for taking part in our online ROI Survey, we are currently analysing the results with the SHA ROI lead and will finalise the report very soon. Can we remind all our NHS adopters that the Y&H SHA now have an ROI page on their website.

Thinking of running and in-house course?

If you require any information about project or programme evaluation and consultancy services or would like to discuss the possibility of running one of our in-house courses to build the competency of your HR and L&D teams, contact us at info@abdi.eu.com

Human Resources Magazine's HR Excellence Awards 2010

Human Resources magazine is currently taking entries for its annual HR Excellence Awards. Among the categories is 'Best Learning and Development Strategy'. A winning candidate will be able to show how a particular L&D initiative was aligned to business goals, and provide tangible evidence of the impact of a given project using quantifiable results. abdi encourages all who have applied the ROI methodology to their processes to enter the award - to gain recognition for adopting the types of practices which HR magazine see as exemplary. The deadline for entries is Thursday 25th of March. For more information visit www.hrexcellenceawards.co.uk.

HRD 2010

Jane will speaking at the HRD 2010 event on the 22nd April about the importance of embedding the ROI Methodology and its process into all aspects of human capital investment programme. We are also delighted that she will be sharing the platform with senior representatives from public and private sector organisations to share their experience and the results they are now reporting. For more information and how to book your place visit www.cipd.co.uk/cande/hrd/

L&D2020 – abdi workshop

Jane will be holding a workshop at the Training Journal's L&D2020 event, why not come and find out how both public and private sector organisations have benefited from embedding the processes of the ROI Methodology into all aspects of their L&D and training investments. For more information and how to book your place visit www.trainingjournal.com