Vol. 7, No. 2, 2021, pp. 190-196 DOI: https://doi.org/10.29210/020211126 Contents lists available at Journal IICET JPPI (Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan Indonesia) ISSN: 2502-8103 (Print) ISSN: 2477-8524 (Electronic) Journal homepage: https://jurnal.iicet.org/index.php/jppi 190 The relationship between training program and emotional intelligence with training effectiveness Syamsul Huda 1*) , Widodo Sunaryo 2 , Martinus Tukiran 2 , Nancy Yusnita 2 , Idarianty Idarianty 1 , Sumirah Sumirah 1 1 UIN Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi, Jambi, Indonesia 2 Pakuan University, Bogor, Indonesia Article Info ABSTRACT Article history: Received Jun 07 th , 2021 Revised Jul 06 th , 2021 Accepted Aug 26 th , 2021 Training effectiveness is one of the determinant factor that could improve employees’ job performance. When we found in a government district office at Jambi Province where the organization had provided many training program to the employees but it had not had significant impact on their employees’ job performance. We realized that we need to study the factors which assumed to have relationship with the training effectiveness. Prior research in training effectiveness found that employees perceived toward the training program designed by organization and individual employees’ emotional intelligence had influence the training effectiveness. Based on those findings we formulated the aim of this study that is to investigate the relationship between the training program and employees’ emotional intelligence with the training effectiveness. This study designed as a quantitative research used sample of 209 employees derived by random sampling from its population. This study utilized questionnaires as instruments to collect empirical data. The correlational analysis technique used to analyze the data. This study had generated findings that there were strong relationship between the training program and employees’ emotional intelligence with training effectiveness. Keyword: Training program Emotional intelligence Training effectiveness © 2021 The Authors. Published by IICET. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0) Corresponding Author: Syamsul Huda, UIN Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi Email: syamsulhuda@uinjambi.ac.id Introduction Biswal and Singh (2019) stated that many factors affected the training effectiveness including the individual factors such as intelligence, ability, skills, etc. and organizational factors such as leadership, culture, and the program itself. Research by Abiddin (2006) found 72% employees judged that the successful training depended on the planning of training program. Hassan et al (2015) found that successful training depended on instructor’s emotional intelligence factors such as interpersonal skills, personal leadership skills, self - management skills, and intrapersonal skills. Based on this result we assumed that the training program designed by the organization and the employees’ emotional intelligence became the factors needed to investigate their relationship with the training effectiveness. Gibson et al (2012) defined the effectiveness as an accomplishment of recognized organization’s objectives. More specifically, summarized from Ivancevich (2010), Robbins and Judge (2014), also Noe et al (2011), explained that the training effectiveness as the accomplishment of the training activities that planned systematically to improve employees’ attitude, work behavior, personal development, knowledge and skills.