# 30 Claude Skills for Training Impact, From the Request to the Proof

> 30 Claude skills that follow one training programme from the sponsor's request to the proof: question the request, agree the measures, collect and read the evidence, report it, and decide what runs next.

30 free Claude Skills (Agent Skills) by Pauline Bertry, Polar Bear. For Claude Code, Claude.ai and Claude Desktop.

- Page: https://meet-polar-bear.com/skills/training-impact-pack
- Download: https://meet-polar-bear.com/skills/training-impact-pack.zip
- Source: https://github.com/polar-bear-org/claude-skills/tree/main/packs/training-impact-pack
- License: Free to use inside your company, not for resale.
- For: L&D managers, L&D specialists, L&D leaders, L&D teams who report to the business

## Install

**Claude Code** — two lines, every skill in the pack at once:

```
/plugin marketplace add polar-bear-org/claude-skills
/plugin install training-impact-pack@polar-bear-skills
```

**Claude.ai / Claude Desktop** — download https://meet-polar-bear.com/skills/training-impact-pack.zip and upload each skill from its `install/` folder under Settings → Customize → Skills.

**Manually** — copy `packs/training-impact-pack/skills/*` from https://github.com/polar-bear-org/claude-skills into `~/.claude/skills/` or a project's `.claude/skills/`.

## The 30 skills

### 1. Impact training request brief (`impact-training-request-brief`)

The request as it arrived, restated as a performance problem, fixed versus open list, evidence asked for, a reply that books the sponsor conversation

Say: "run impact-training-request-brief", "training request", "we need a training", "manager wants a course", "reply to a training request", "training request brief", "they already picked the format", "how to answer a course request"

### 2. Impact sponsor discovery questions (`impact-sponsor-discovery-questions`)

Question guide for the conversation you hold, lines for when the sponsor insists on the course, notes template, follow-up message

Say: "run impact-sponsor-discovery-questions", "questions to ask a sponsor", "is this a training problem", "stakeholder discovery questions", "sponsor insists on a course", "push back on a training request", "performance consulting questions", "what would success look like"

### 3. Impact performance problem diagnosis (`impact-performance-problem-diagnosis`)

Gap by task, cause table at role level, evidence or "assumed" per cause, a cheap check per assumed cause, how much of the gap training could close

Say: "run impact-performance-problem-diagnosis", "is it a training problem", "performance consulting", "why are people not doing it", "cause analysis", "performance problem diagnosis", "can't do or won't do", "is it a skill gap"

### 4. Impact non training options (`impact-non-training-options`)

The decision framed with owner and deadline, three to five real options per cause, cost and owner of each, a memo the sponsor can say yes to

Say: "run impact-non-training-options", "alternatives to training", "training is not the answer", "job aid instead of a course", "non-training options", "what to offer instead of a course", "options memo for a sponsor", "say no to a training request"

### 5. Impact critical behaviours map (`impact-critical-behaviours-map`)

One measurable goal, the few observable actions that would move it, why each is not happening, which ones training can change, how each would be seen at work

Say: "run impact-critical-behaviours-map", "action mapping", "critical behaviours", "critical behaviors for this training", "what should people do differently", "they need to understand X", "from know to do", "observable behaviours"

### 6. Impact success measures agreement (`impact-success-measures-agreement`)

Expected result, leading indicators, behaviours, source and owner of each figure, what "worked", "partly" and "did not" mean, reporting dates, sign-off block

Say: "run impact-success-measures-agreement", "success measures", "how will we know the training worked", "agree success criteria with the sponsor", "return on expectations", "define success before we build", "what does success look like", "training success metrics"

### 7. Impact training baseline plan (`impact-training-baseline-plan`)

Where each before figure lives, period and group, comparison group or trend line, what is missing and how to get it, what cannot be claimed later

Say: "run impact-training-baseline-plan", "training baseline", "baseline before training", "before and after training data", "pre-training measurement", "comparison group for training", "what do we measure before launch", "capture where things stand today"

### 8. Impact kirkpatrick data plan (`impact-kirkpatrick-data-plan`)

Measure, instrument, source, owner, date and reporting group size per level, required drivers, how deep to go for this programme

Say: "run impact-kirkpatrick-data-plan", "kirkpatrick model", "kirkpatrick model of evaluation", "evaluation plan", "who collects what", "data collection plan for training", "kirkpatrick four levels", "how deep should we evaluate this programme"

### 9. Impact post training survey (`impact-post-training-survey`)

Four to six closed items with concrete answer options, open prompts on barriers, each item tied to a measure, a pretest, a group-level summary template

Say: "run impact-post-training-survey", "post-training survey", "training evaluation form", "training feedback survey", "smile sheet", "end of course survey", "our satisfaction form tells us nothing", "course feedback questions"

### 10. Impact training follow up survey (`impact-training-follow-up-survey`)

A short survey on what people used, what happened and what got in the way, send date, reminder, minimum reporting group, an invitation to volunteer for an interview

Say: "run impact-training-follow-up-survey", "training follow-up survey", "did anyone use the training", "level 3 survey", "survey a month after the course", "training application survey", "behaviour change survey", "find people to interview after training"

### 11. Impact behaviour observation checklist (`impact-behaviour-observation-checklist`)

Critical behaviours as things a person can see, three marks (seen, not seen, no occasion), no name recorded, a tally by group, what blocked the behaviour

Say: "run impact-behaviour-observation-checklist", "behaviour observation checklist", "observe training transfer", "level 3 observation", "is the training showing up in the work", "on the job observation form", "observation tally by group"

### 12. Impact learner interview guide (`impact-learner-interview-guide`)

Consent script, fixed question order, probes for evidence, notes template with no names, a rule for who never sees raw notes

Say: "run impact-learner-interview-guide", "learner interview guide", "interview questions after training", "success case interviews", "how to interview training participants", "consent script for learner interviews", "more than it was useful"

### 13. Impact business data request (`impact-business-data-request`)

The exact figures per measure at group level, a short data dictionary, the message to the data owner, a log of what arrived and who vouches for it

Say: "run impact-business-data-request", "business data request", "ask for data to evaluate training", "request kpi data from another team", "data request to a data owner", "training impact data", "get the before and after figures", "data dictionary for training measures"

### 14. Impact before after results table (`impact-before-after-results-table`)

Each measure before and after, group size, absolute and relative change, the comparison, what else changed, the source and who vouches, small groups suppressed

Say: "run impact-before-after-results-table", "before and after training results", "training results table", "pre and post training data", "did the numbers change after training", "compare before and after the programme", "analyse my training data export"

### 15. Impact open comment themes (`impact-open-comment-themes`)

Code list, themes with comment counts, a paraphrase per theme, minority views kept, what each theme suggests changing

Say: "run impact-open-comment-themes", "analyse open comments", "open text survey responses", "thematic analysis of survey comments", "summarise training feedback comments", "what did people write in the survey", "code free text answers"

### 16. Impact training contribution analysis (`impact-training-contribution-analysis`)

The chain from programme to behaviour to result, evidence per link, other explanations weighed, every claim marked shown, suggested or unknown

Say: "run impact-training-contribution-analysis", "contribution analysis", "how do we know it was the training", "isolate the effect of training", "did the training cause the result", "other explanations for the result", "training attribution"

### 17. Impact success case write up (`impact-success-case-write-up`)

How cases are picked from survey answers about use, anonymous write-ups of uses that worked and uses that stalled, evidence checked, barrier list, limits of the sample

Say: "run impact-success-case-write-up", "success case method", "evidence the training was used", "what got in the way after training", "write up the learner interviews", "did anyone actually use the training", "stories of use on the job", "show impact without a money figure"

### 18. Impact training roi range (`impact-training-roi-range`)

Chain of evidence, share credited with the isolation method named, money conversion with sources, fully loaded costs, a low and a high case, intangibles unconverted

Say: "run impact-training-roi-range", "training roi", "phillips roi model", "return on investment for training", "benefit cost ratio", "what did the programme return", "training ROI calculation", "justify the training budget"

### 19. Impact sponsor impact one pager (`impact-sponsor-impact-one-pager`)

The answer in the first two lines, each agreed measure against what happened, what is unknown, what helped and blocked, the decision asked and by when

Say: "run impact-sponsor-impact-one-pager", "one page summary for the sponsor", "training impact report", "training evaluation report", "report training results to the sponsor", "executive summary of training results", "bottom line up front", "what do I tell the sponsor"

### 20. Impact early warning note (`impact-early-warning-note`)

The indicator that is off, the evidence, what it means for the agreed result, options with costs, the help asked for, the triggers agreed in advance

Say: "run impact-early-warning-note", "early warning", "training attendance is dropping", "the programme is off track", "tell the sponsor bad news", "nobody is using the training", "red status update", "escalate a programme risk"

### 21. Impact ld metrics set (`impact-ld-metrics-set`)

A short fixed set of efficiency, effectiveness and outcome measures, each with definition, source, owner, reader and decision, plus a stop-reporting list

Say: "run impact-ld-metrics-set", "L&D metrics", "learning and development metrics", "training KPIs", "what should L&D report", "L&D dashboard measures", "training metrics executives read", "stop reporting completions"

### 22. Impact quarterly ld report (`impact-quarterly-ld-report`)

One page: outcome measures against plan, programmes with evidence and its strength, what stopped, what is at risk, capacity used, decisions asked

Say: "run impact-quarterly-ld-report", "quarterly L&D report", "L&D report to leadership", "learning and development quarterly review", "training report for the business", "L&D results against plan", "one page L&D report"

### 23. Impact executive impact briefing (`impact-executive-impact-briefing`)

Five slides or two pages on one flagship programme, speaker notes, the hard questions with answers drawn only from the evidence

Say: "run impact-executive-impact-briefing", "executive briefing on training impact", "present training results to executives", "training impact presentation", "L&D slides for the leadership team", "show the business impact of training", "questions finance will ask about training"

### 24. Impact overclaim check (`impact-overclaim-check`)

Every claim in a draft listed and tested, a rewrite for each weak one, what must come out

Say: "run impact-overclaim-check", "check my training report before I send it", "am I overclaiming", "can I say the training caused this", "review my impact report", "fact check L&D report", "is this claim supported", "sanity check training results"

### 25. Impact evidence review meeting (`impact-evidence-review-meeting`)

One-hour agenda, a pre-read of one line per programme, a proposal to continue, change, stop or scale, decisions with owners and dates

Say: "run impact-evidence-review-meeting", "evidence review meeting", "review our training evaluations", "what do we do with the evaluation reports", "continue change stop or scale", "programme review agenda", "training portfolio review", "act on evaluation findings"

### 26. Impact programme decision record (`impact-programme-decision-record`)

The decision in the owner's words and its status, options rejected, evidence known at the time, dissent, conditions, review date and what would reopen it

Say: "run impact-programme-decision-record", "programme decision record", "write down the decision", "record why we kept the programme", "the sponsor said keep going", "stop or scale decision", "decision log for training", "why did we continue this course"

### 27. Impact programme shortfall note (`impact-programme-shortfall-note`)

What was expected, what the evidence shows, the likely reasons sorted, what stops now, what was learned for the next request

Say: "run impact-programme-shortfall-note", "programme shortfall note", "the training did not work", "programme missed its target", "how to report a failed training", "tell the sponsor it did not work", "lessons from a programme that missed", "blameless programme review"

### 28. Impact needs assessment update (`impact-needs-assessment-update`)

Needs by role and task refreshed from this cycle's evidence, what training can and cannot fix, needs dropped because they were not needs

Say: "run impact-needs-assessment-update", "training needs assessment", "training needs analysis", "learning needs analysis", "TNA", "update our training needs", "needs for next year", "which needs were never needs"

### 29. Impact ld priority plan (`impact-ld-priority-plan`)

Programmes ranked on criteria you set, the capacity line, a stop list with its evidence, a not-now list sponsors can see

Say: "run impact-ld-priority-plan", "training plan", "L&D plan for next year", "prioritise training requests", "too many training requests", "which programmes to stop", "L&D priorities", "what we will not run next year"

### 30. Impact training business case (`impact-training-business-case`)

The problem and its evidence, options including doing nothing, full cost, benefit as a range from your own figures or left blank, risks, measures, the ask

Say: "run impact-training-business-case", "training business case", "business case for training", "budget for a training programme", "justify the training budget", "L&D budget request", "cost of doing nothing", "ask finance for training budget"