Employee learning (training and development) initiatives are no small piece of the pie when it comes to organization's budgets. According to ATD's 2013 States of the Industry report, organizations spent $164.2 billion on employee learning in 2012. Of this, 61% was spent internally.

Training and development initiatives differ from company to company, but the reason for them is the same: to help employees grow professionally and excel in their roles. Depending on the size of the organization, there might be learning and development departments that handle and strategize what initiatives they should focus on across the year, or individual departments will handle training for those within the department.

After all, you are conducting training programs to ensure your employees are successful at your organization. But in order to know how effective the trainings were and how much they prepared them for their role, you need to ask them for their feedback. Your trainees will be your greatest source of learning!