ROE vs. ROI 
Everyone knows about return on investment (ROI) as a measure of success for business: It is the amount of profit from an investment made, usually expressed as a percentage of the original total cost invested. ROI on training is an expected way to show training benefits in organizations that want tangible measures to show improvement. 

What about return on expectations (ROE)? This is also a way to define value for stakeholders. ROE uses methods that deal with the psychological and sociological complexity inherent in business. Using ROE we are able to communicate results clearly to business people not necessarily interested in the fine points of complex statistics and research design.

Want to know more? Join us... 

GCASTD January Chapter Meeting "ROE vs. ROI"
January 18, 2011 from 5:30—7:30 PM
Registration & Networking: 5:30 - 6:00
Dinner & Program: 6:00 - 7:30 

            
About the Speaker
Daniel McLinden, EdD has spent a number of years applying program planning and evaluation in both private and public sectors. He has worked extensively in the professional services and healthcare industries and has also worked a number of government agencies including the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Dan has authored and co-authored articles on training evaluation which have appeared in multiple trade and professional journals and has authored several book chapters on training evaluation that have appeared in Return on Investment in Human Resource Development (volume 1), Implementing Evaluation Systems and Processes and most recently in the ASTD Handbook for Measuring and Evaluating Training with a chapter on estimating the future value of training investments.  Dan is currently an Assistant Vice President in the Education and Training Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati.