Conducting Needs Assessments

Learn various techniques to gather data and create recommendations based upon subjective and objective information available in your organization.

If you are responsible for training and development in your organization, you know that managers and other stakeholders often will approach you with requests that may or may not be appropriate problems to address with a learning solution. We become reactionary and sometimes then have difficulty justifying the expense and time for specific initiatives.

In this program, you will learn various techniques to gather data and create recommendations based upon subjective and objective information available in your organization.

Your organization may need this program if:

• Human Resources, Talent Development and Training professionals rely on limited sources of information in order to plan and prepare learning and development activities.
• Those responsible for training and development initiatives have difficulty connecting their activities to the organization’s objectives.
• Budget season is fraught with competing priorities and no structured way to gauge the importance of learning and development activities.

Program Outcomes:

• Recognize data gathering terminology.
• Select and implement a variety of methods for workplace data-gathering projects.
• Use thinking prompts in order to interpret data collected.
• Practice performing methods such as structured interviews and running focus groups.