October 2026 · 9 min read · 30 skills, free

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

Question the training request, agree what proof looks like before the build, collect the evidence, read it honestly, then report to the sponsor and the business and feed it into the next plan. Claude drafts; a named person stands behind every number.

01What these skills are

One training programme, from the request to the decision about what comes next, as installable Claude skills

This pack is for L&D managers, L&D specialists and L&D leaders who report to the business.

The skills follow one programme in the order the work happens, in seven stages, from questioning the request before anything is built to feeding the evidence back into what runs next.

The red line: Claude plans the evaluation and drafts the report from your data. It never invents a result, a benchmark or a quote, never claims a cause the evidence does not support, never turns evidence about a programme into a judgement of a person, and a named person stands behind every number.

You hold the conversations, collect the data and stand behind the figures; Claude prepares, drafts and checks. Nothing here connects to your LMS or your survey tool: you export, then paste or upload.

Each skill keeps one method or one artifact inside, with the inputs it needs, where it breaks, a fixed output template, a finish line and the next skill to run.

Download all 30 skills

One zip: ready-to-install skill zips, readable SKILL.md files, and the sources behind every method. Free, no signup. The same 30 skills live in our open repo, if you would rather read them before you install them.

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Install in Claude Code

Two lines, and every skill in the pack loads at once.

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

Using Claude on the web instead? Download the zip above and upload each skill from its install folder under Customize → Skills.

02The catalog

The 30 skills you get

The set follows one programme in seven stages: question the request, agree what proof looks like, collect the evidence, read it honestly, tell the sponsor, report to the business, and feed it back.

1 · Question the request

Training Request Brief

Use when: "We need a training by Friday" lands with the format, the audience and the date already chosen
Output: The request as it arrived, restated as a performance problem, fixed versus open list, evidence asked for, a reply that books the sponsor conversation

Performance Problem Diagnosis

Use when: The conversation left you unsure whether people cannot do it or are not set up to do it
Output: 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

Non-Training Options

Use when: The cause is not a skill gap and you need to offer something better than "no"
Output: 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

2 · Agree what proof looks like

Critical Behaviours Map

Use when: The sponsor says "they need to understand X" and nobody has said what people will do differently
Output: 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

Success Measures Agreement

Use when: The build is about to start and nobody has agreed how anyone will know it worked
Output: Expected result, leading indicators, behaviours, source and owner of each figure, what "worked", "partly" and "did not" mean, reporting dates, sign-off block

Training Baseline Plan

Use when: The programme launches in three weeks and no one has captured where things stand today
Output: 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

Kirkpatrick Data Collection Plan

Use when: The measures are agreed and you need to know who collects what, and when
Output: Measure, instrument, source, owner, date and reporting group size per level, required drivers, how deep to go for this programme

3 · Collect the evidence

Post-Training Survey

Use when: The satisfaction form says everyone loved it and tells you nothing you can act on
Output: 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

Training Follow-Up Survey

Use when: The course ended a month ago and nobody has asked whether anyone used it
Output: 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

Behaviour Observation Checklist

Use when: Surveys say people use it and you want to know whether it shows up in the work
Output: 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

Learner Interview Guide

Use when: You have twenty minutes each with five volunteers and want more than "it was useful"
Output: Consent script, fixed question order, probes for evidence, notes template with no names, a rule for who never sees raw notes

Business Data Request

Use when: The measure that matters sits in someone else's system
Output: 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

4 · Read it honestly

Before-and-After Results Table

Use when: The exports are in and you need one table you could defend line by line
Output: Each measure before and after, group size, absolute and relative change, the comparison, what else changed, the source and who vouches, small groups suppressed

Open Comment Themes

Use when: You have three hundred open comments and time to read thirty
Output: Code list, themes with comment counts, a paraphrase per theme, minority views kept, what each theme suggests changing

Training Contribution Analysis

Use when: The number moved and someone will ask how you know it was the programme
Output: The chain from programme to behaviour to result, evidence per link, other explanations weighed, every claim marked shown, suggested or unknown

5 · Tell the sponsor

Success Case Method Write-Up

Use when: The sponsor asks "did anyone actually do anything with it?" and a score cannot answer
Output: 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

Training ROI Range

Use when: The budget holder asks what the programme returned and finance will check the working
Output: 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

Programme Early Warning Note

Use when: Three weeks in, attendance or use is falling and the sponsor still thinks it is going well
Output: 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

6 · Report to the business

L&D Metrics Set

Use when: Your report is hours, completions and a satisfaction score, and nobody upstairs reads it
Output: A short fixed set of efficiency, effectiveness and outcome measures, each with definition, source, owner, reader and decision, plus a stop-reporting list

Quarterly L&D Report

Use when: The quarter closes and you want a report that reads like the other functions' reports
Output: One page: outcome measures against plan, programmes with evidence and its strength, what stopped, what is at risk, capacity used, decisions asked

Executive Impact Briefing

Use when: You have ten minutes with the executive team and one chance to be taken seriously
Output: Five slides or two pages on one flagship programme, speaker notes, the hard questions with answers drawn only from the evidence

Overclaim Check

Use when: The report reads well and you are about to send it
Output: Every claim in a draft listed and tested, a rewrite for each weak one, what must come out

7 · Feed it back

Evidence Review Meeting

Use when: Evaluation reports pile up and next year's plan looks exactly like this year's
Output: One-hour agenda, a pre-read of one line per programme, a proposal to continue, change, stop or scale, decisions with owners and dates

Programme Decision Record

Use when: The sponsor said "let's keep going" in a corridor and in six months nobody will remember why
Output: 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

Programme Shortfall Note

Use when: The programme did not move the measure and you would rather say so yourself than be found out
Output: What was expected, what the evidence shows, the likely reasons sorted, what stops now, what was learned for the next request

Training Needs Assessment Update

Use when: You are planning next year from last year's wish list
Output: Needs by role and task refreshed from this cycle's evidence, what training can and cannot fix, needs dropped because they were not needs

L&D Priority Plan

Use when: Eight sponsors each think theirs is first and you have evidence about only three
Output: Programmes ranked on criteria you set, the capacity line, a stop list with its evidence, a not-now list sponsors can see

Training Business Case

Use when: You need budget for the next programme and "people liked the last one" will not get it
Output: 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

03How to use it

Pick the workflow that matches your week

Start with the training request brief: the set follows one programme in order from there. After that, bring the thing that is in front of you.

Question the request

A request for a course has arrived with the format already chosen.

Training Request Brief
Sponsor Discovery Questions
Performance Problem Diagnosis
Non-Training Options

Agree the proof first

The build is about to start and nobody has agreed how anyone will know it worked.

Critical Behaviours Map
Success Measures Agreement
Training Baseline Plan
Kirkpatrick Data Collection Plan

Collect the evidence

The programme has run and the satisfaction form tells you nothing you can act on.

Post-Training Survey
Training Follow-Up Survey
Behaviour Observation Checklist
Learner Interview Guide
Business Data Request

Read it honestly

The exports and the comments are in.

Before-and-After Results Table
Open Comment Themes
Training Contribution Analysis

Tell the sponsor

The sponsor asks what the programme did and what it returned.

Success Case Method Write-Up
Training ROI Range
Sponsor Impact One-Pager
Programme Early Warning Note

Report to the business

The quarter closes and the report is hours, completions and a satisfaction score.

L&D Metrics Set
Quarterly L&D Report
Executive Impact Briefing
Overclaim Check

Decide what runs next

Evaluation reports pile up and next year's plan needs to change.

Evidence Review Meeting
Programme Decision Record
Programme Shortfall Note
Training Needs Assessment Update
L&D Priority Plan
Training Business Case

04Setup guide

Install it in five minutes

In Claude Code · two lines

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

In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop · seven clicks

Download the pack, then open Settings
Unzip the pack: its skills folder holds all 30 skills. In Claude, click your name at the bottom left, then Settings.
Download the zip
Open Skills and click Add
Under Customize, choose Skills. Click Add, then Upload a skill.
Drop in a skill file
Drag the skill's file into the box, or click to browse. You can add several at once.
Pick the skill from the pack
In the pack folder, open skills, then the skill you want, and select its SKILL.md — impact-training-request-brief is a good first one.
Check the preview and upload
Claude shows the skill's name and what it does. Click Upload.
Make sure it is switched on
The skill opens on its own page. Its toggle should be on.
Try it in a new chat
Type / and the skill's name, then say what you need.

Then try one

Run impact-training-request-brief on the request as it arrived: [paste the email here]

Run impact-success-measures-agreement on my notes from the sponsor conversation and the behaviours we mapped: [paste them here]

Run impact-overclaim-check on this draft report before I send it to the sponsor: [paste it here]

Nothing here connects to your LMS or your survey tool: export, then paste or upload, and remove anything that could identify a person.

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05Quick reference

Where to start

Your situation	Skill to run
“We need a training by Friday” has landed, format and date already chosen?	Training Request Brief
Need to ask a senior sponsor whether this is a training problem?	Sponsor Discovery Questions
Not sure it is a skill gap at all?	Performance Problem Diagnosis
Need something better to offer than “no”?	Non-Training Options
Nobody has said what people will do differently?	Critical Behaviours Map
The build is about to start and success is not agreed?	Success Measures Agreement
Launching in three weeks with no before figures?	Training Baseline Plan
The course ended a month ago and nobody has asked whether anyone used it?	Training Follow-Up Survey
The measure that matters sits in someone else's system?	Business Data Request
Need one table you can defend line by line?	Before-and-After Results Table
The number moved and someone will ask how you know it was the programme?	Training Contribution Analysis
The budget holder wants a return figure finance can rerun?	Training ROI Range
The sponsor has five minutes and you have forty pages of evidence?	Sponsor Impact One-Pager
About to send a report that reads well?	Overclaim Check
Next year's plan looks exactly like this year's?	Evidence Review Meeting
Need budget for the next programme?	Training Business Case

06Standards

The quality bar

Every skill in the pack holds the same standard:

Your figures only: every figure comes from you, with its source and the person who vouches for it. A cell with no data stays blank
No borrowed numbers: no benchmark, industry average or quote appears unless you supplied it and can name where it came from
Claims carry their strength: every claim is marked shown, suggested or unknown, and a report never says the programme caused a change the evidence only sits beside
Groups, not people: evidence is collected and reported for groups. No name is recorded, groups below the minimum size you set are suppressed, and nothing rates a learner, a manager or a trainer
Voluntary and anonymous: interviews and case write-ups are voluntary, with consent, and anonymous. Privacy and data protection points: check with a qualified adviser
Ends in a decision: every output ends with the decision a named person makes, and by when
The red line: Claude plans the evaluation and drafts the report from your data: it never invents a result, a benchmark or a quote, never claims a cause the evidence does not support, never turns evidence about a programme into a judgement of a person, and a named person stands behind every number

07FAQ

Questions people ask

What is in the Claude Guide for Training Impact pack?

30 Claude skills that follow one training programme in seven stages: question the request, agree what proof looks like, collect the evidence, read it honestly, tell the sponsor, report to the business, and feed it back. Each skill is one method or one artifact.

How do I install these Claude skills?

In Claude Code, two lines install all 30 at once. In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop, download the zip, open Settings, Skills, Add, and upload the skills you want. Either way it takes about five minutes.

Do I need Claude Code to use them?

No. The skills work in Claude.ai, Claude Desktop and Claude Code. In the app you upload them yourself; in Claude Code one command installs the whole pack.

Do the skills work with ChatGPT or other assistants?

They are built as Claude Skills, and installing them is a Claude feature. Each one is a plain Markdown file, so you can read it and reuse the method elsewhere, but it will not load and trigger by itself outside Claude.

Will Claude fill the gaps in my results?

No. Claude plans the evaluation and drafts the report from your data. It never invents a result, a benchmark or a quote, never claims a cause the evidence does not support, and a cell with no data stays blank.

Is the pack free?

Yes. It is free to use inside your company and in client work, and not for resale. There is no signup: the download and the install command are on this page.

08Who made this

Lantern, by Polar Bear

These skills were written by Polar Bear, a people ops consultancy that runs its own company on Claude. The pack is free, and the same skills are open on GitHub.

Lantern is Polar Bear's content workspace. It turns your notes, documents and call transcripts into drafts for LinkedIn and other networks. You review them and publish the ones you like.