Transcript Training Needs Assessment.ppt

Objectives
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1. What is individual needs assessment for training?
2. How the whole process works.
3. The involvement of training.
4. The benefits of training.
Needs Assessment Includes?
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Definition
Types of Assessment
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Needs assessment includes:
-Educational skills
-Organizational needs
-Identifying gaps
Assessment Has Two Phases
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Employee Assessment:
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Environment Assessment:
Individual Needs Assessment
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Slowing down your work process or need extra skills in a
certain area of work?
– Example: get the correct skills training.
– Example: need more experience in a certain skills area such as math
skills or computer skills?
Internal Assessment
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Internal assessment can be very important to a company.
– Employees.
– Managers.
Needs Assessment
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Needs assessment can be seen from the inside of the
company or it can be seen through external sources.
Needs Assessment
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Companies often attack productivity
problems with more training.
– “Needs assessment services can range from a two-day
observation-based model to a comprehensive data-driven
approach with skills testing.”
– Example: Merex
Partnership Building
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Conducting needs assessments:
– The needs assessments used in companies which
help make their partnerships more productive and
also more agreeable.
Training Needs Assessment
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“A training needs assessment provides vital
information about the real needs of the
organization. This pre-training tool helps a
company to strategically identify specific areas
needing attention (training and non-training).
The assessment results help target training
more cost-effectively.”
Types of Training
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Formal training
–Example:
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On-the-job (OJT) training
–Example:
Strategic Training
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Program AIM:
– Nature of assistance:
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Making a Strategic Investment in Training:
Training Issues:
– What happened when the United States Office of personal
management, Office of workforce relations performs test on
training.
– Results:
Training Design and Development Services—
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The myth for good training:
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Effective training:
–Example:
NSW Vocational Education and Training Strategic
Plan 1998-2000
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The NSW Vocational
Education and Training
Strategic Plan 1998-2000
is:
Employee Benefits
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Many employees get benefit out of performing training.
Employees get more job knowledge and realize they have
choices in their futures.
Organizational Benefits
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Know what their training needs are.
Why provide a kind of training.
Develop and new knowledge.
Additional Organizational Benefits
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“Knowing what training is being planned and why.”
“Justifying costs in relation to training benefits.”
Benefits:
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Eliminate chaos from your training efforts
Set the direction and tone of your training effort
Align training with your business goals and objectives
Bring reason, cohesiveness and clarity to your training effort
Monitor the progress of your organization in achieving its training
goals
Summary
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“The bottom line of needs assessment is to determine
organizational needs, employee needs, and organizational
resources to provide needed training.”
Summary
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Needs Assessments.
• Employee Assessments.
• Environmental Assessments.
• Training Assessments.
Summary
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Benefits from individual needs assessment for training.
Bibliography
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BVET. 2001. Advice on Introducing Workplace
Training. 2001
<http://www.bvet.nsw.gov.au/industry/bv01in13.ht
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Center for Performance Technology. 1999. Training
Design and Development Services. 1999
<http://www.centerpt.com/>.
Bibliography
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Enhanced Training. Enhanced Training.
<http://www.enhancedtraining.com/establish-training.html>.
Department of State and Regional Development. 22 Dec. 2000.
Business Information- Guide to Programs and Services.
<http://home.vicnet.net.au/~entimp/nies/StratTrain.html>.
Bibliography
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Foster, Thomas. Managing Quality: An Integrative
Approach. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001.
Plishker, Gordon. A Guide to Promising Practices in
Educational Partnerships. 1996.
<http://www.ed.gov/pubs/PromPract/prom5.html>.
Bibliography
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Merex Corporation. 27 July 1997. Merex Corporation.
<http://www.merexcorp.com/index.htm>.
ES&H Employee Training Assessment. 3 May 2000. ES&H
Employee Training Assessment.
<http://www.slac.stanford.edu/esh/training.html>.
Bibliography
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United states office of personal management, office
of workforce relations. July 2000. A Guide to
Strategically Planning Training and Measuring Results.
<http://www.opm.gov/hrd/lead/spguide.pdf>.
Bibliography
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Drake & Associates, LTD. 2000.
<http://www.drakehr.com/point2.html>.