Identifying Learning & Development Needs

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Course Overview

This course illustrates the many factors that can influence organisational, occupational and individual learning and development needs. It provides the knowledge, skills and techniques required to carry out a comprehensive learning and development needs analysis.

Audience

Training and HR professionals, line managers and anyone who is involved in the process of identifying learning and development needs. Trainers who are new to the function will find this course particularly useful, as will more experienced trainers and individuals who would benefit from reviewing their methods of assessing and analysing needs.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• distinguish between organisational, occupational and individual learning and development needs
• describe the purpose and benefits of conducting a learning and development needs analysis
• relate needs to broader organisation objectives
• use SWOT analysis and a variety of techniques to identify needs at all levels in an organisation
• state methods of evaluation

Course Outline

Defining learning and development needs

• definition and purpose
• where do learning and development needs come from?

Organisation climate and learning culture

The individual's perception of learning and development

• how to assess perception
• promoting the importance of identifying needs

Identifying organisational needs

Job analysis application and specification

Identifying individual needs - skills matrices

Conducting a SWOT analysis

• analysis of organisations approach to LDNA

Defining, assessing and measuring competencies

Performance reviews

• the role of the training department
• verifying the needs identified

Personal development plans

• what are PDP's?
• designing the plans
• monitoring completion

The role of NVQs

• the purpose of NVQ's
• utilising NVQ's

Identifying Learning & Development Needs / T7