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The Importance of a Training Needs Assessment Posted by Melissa Mayfield on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 @ 03:58 PM
Conducting a training needs assessment is a critical activity for the training and development
of employees and/or clients. Whether you are a human resource generalist or a training
specialist, you should be adept at performing a training needs assessment. To be effective
and efficient, all training programs must start with a needs assessment. Long before any
actual training occurs, the training manager must determine the: who, what, when, where,
why and how of training. To do this, the training manager must analyze as much information
as possible about the following:
Organizational culture including its goals and objectives.
Jobs and related tasks that need to be learned.
Competencies and skills that are need to perform the job.
Individuals who are to be trained
The assessment begins with a "need" which can be identified in several ways but is generally described as a
gap between what is currently in place and what is needed, now and in the future. Gaps can include
discrepancies/differences between:
What the organization expects to happen and what actually happens.
Current and desired job performance.
Existing and desired competencies and skills.
The needs assessment should be conducted at three levels: organizational analysis, task analysis and
individual analysis. Organizational analysis looks at the effectiveness of the organization and determines
where training is needed and under what conditions it will be conducted. The organizational analysis should
identify:
Environmental impacts (new laws such as ADA, FMLA, OSHA, etc.).
State of the economy and the impact on operating costs.
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Changing work force demographics and the need to address cultural or language barriers.
Changing technology and automation.
Increasing global/world market places.
Political trends such as sexual harassment and workplace violence.
Organizational goals (how effective is the organization in meetings its goals), resources available
(money, facilities; materials on hand and current, available expertise within the organization).
Climate and support for training (top management support, employee willingness to participate, and
responsibility for outcomes).
A task analysis identifies the knowledge, skills, attitudes and abilities needed to achieve optimum
performance for a group of workers. Sources for collecting this information can include:
Job descriptions
KSA analysis-- A more detailed list of specified tasks for each job including Knowledge,
Skills, Attitudes and Abilities required of incumbents.
Performance standards-- Objectives of the tasks of the job and the standards by which they will be
judged. This is needed to identify performance discrepancies.
Observe the job/sample the work.
Job inventory questionnaire-- Evaluate tasks in terms of importance and time spent performing.
Researching the "best practices" from other companies, review professional journals.
Ask questions about the job-- Of the employees, of the supervisor, of upper management.
Lastly, an individual analysis analyzes how well the individual employee is doing the job and determines which
employees need training and what kind. Sources of information available for a individual analysis include:
Performance evaluation -- Identifies weaknesses and areas of improvement.
Performance problems -- Productivity, absenteeism or tardiness, accidents, grievances, waste, product
quality, down time, repairs, equipment utilization, customer complaints.
Observation -- Observe both behavior and the results of the behavior.
Work samples -- Observe products generated.
Interviews -- Talk to manager, supervisor and employee. Ask employee about what he/she believes
he/she needs to learn.
Attitude surveys -- Measures morale, motivation, satisfaction.
The results of a needs assessment can then be used to plan instructional objectives, and the design and
delivery of your training program.
What is described here may seem like a lot of work on the front end but the payoff will be that you will be able
to plan, design and implement a training program that helps direct resources to the areas of greatest need,
those that closely relate to fulfilling the organizational goals and objectives, and will also improve productivity
of your work force.
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