Cutting Training Overhead Through Predictive Evaluation

Dave Basarab Consulting has elevated the training experience, offering an end-to-end comprehensive approach that includes training strategy, instructional design, development, delivery , post program training transfer, and evaluation (via the unique Predictive Evaluation methodology). Virtual Chief Architect Dave Basarab has combined all of these individual training elements with his user-friendly, comprehensive Learning to Performance approach, which significantly increases companies' training ROI.

Why we are different

Innovation: Our primary focus is creating learning programs using a Learning to Performance approach.
Expertise: Dave offers the depth and breadth of his experience, including working internally at prestigious companies (Motorola, Ingersoll Rand and Pitney Bowes) as well as his knowledge and expertise as a highly-respected, sought-after consultant.
Partnership: Basarab collaborates with companies, serving as their own Chief Learning Officer whenever they need to plan, strategize, or implement training initiatives.

Training budgets across Australian enterprises keep climbing, yet most L&D leaders struggle to show what the spend delivers. A Sydney financial services firm might pour millions into leadership programmes while the only feedback is a smiling-face survey at workshop end. The result is a stack of sign-in sheets and thin evidence of behaviour change on the floor of a Melbourne distribution centre or a Pilbara mine site. Learn more about Designing Custom Training For Highly Regulated Industries.html.

Predictive Evaluation flips that script. It uses leading signals — readiness, manager reinforcement, workflow fit, and capability gaps — to forecast whether a learning programme will land, then tracks them once it runs. Learn more about The Link Between Leadership Development And Employee Retention Rates.html.

Overhead in corporate learning is rarely the facilitator's day rate. It is the rework, duplicate cohorts, under-attended webinars, and senior leaders who quietly opt out of the programmes they sponsored. Those costs hide inside line items labelled "professional development" and stay there.

For Australian organisations across multiple state jurisdictions and regulated industries, that opacity is a particular liability. FIFO rosters, clinical staff across NSW and Queensland Health, and retail networks from Brisbane to Hobart amplify the cost of getting training wrong. Predictive Evaluation offers a way to see these costs coming.

Forecasting Adoption Before You Spend

The first move in Predictive Evaluation is reading the room. Before a single module is built, the methodology asks whether the target audience has the time, tools, and manager support to apply what the programme will teach. Most Australian L&D teams commission content first and check context later, which is why so many custom builds end up underused.

A practical example is a leadership programme rolled out across regional NSW where participants are spread between Tamworth, Wagga Wagga, and Albury. Predictive Evaluation would surface early that field managers expect a five-hour round trip and would recommend blending live and on-demand formats rather than assume everyone can turn up to Sydney on a Wednesday

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Cutting Training Overhead Through Predictive Evaluation

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