Individual Needs

Assessment For Training

Kevin A. Heikkinen
February 19, 2001
OISM 470W, Section 03

Objectives
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?

Definition

Types of Assessment
Needs assessment includes:

-Educational skills
-Organizational needs
-Identifying gaps

Assessment Has Two Phases

Employee Assessment:
Environment Assessment:

Individual Needs Assessment

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

Internal assessment can be very important

to a company.
Employees.
Managers.

Needs Assessment

Needs assessment can be seen from the

inside of the company or it can be seen
through external sources.

Needs Assessment
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
Conducting needs

assessments:

The needs assessments used in

companies which help make their
partnerships more productive and
also more agreeable.

Training Needs Assessment

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
Formal training

Example:
On-the-job (OJT) training

Example:

Strategic Training
Program AIM:

Nature of assistance:

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

The

myth for good

training:
Example:

Effective

training:

Example:

NSW Vocational Education and

Training Strategic Plan 1998-2000

The

NSW Vocational
Education and
Training Strategic
Plan 1998-2000 is:

Employee Benefits
Many employees get benefit out of
performing training.
Employees get more job knowledge and
realize they have choices in their futures.

Organizational Benefits
Know what their training needs are.
Why provide a kind of training.
Develop and new knowledge.

Additional Organizational
Benefits
Knowing what training is being planned
and why.
Justifying costs in relation to training
benefits.

Benefits:

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

The bottom line of needs assessment is to

determine organizational needs, employee
needs, and organizational resources to
provide needed training.

Summary

Needs Assessments.
Employee Assessments.
Environmental Assessments.
Training Assessments.

Summary

Benefits from individual needs assessment

for training.

Bibliography
BVET. 2001. Advice

on Introducing
Workplace Training. 2001
<http://www.bvet.nsw.gov.au/industry
/bv01in13.htm.>
Center for Performance Technology. 1999.
Training Design and Development
Services. 1999
<http://www.centerpt.com/>.

Bibliography

Enhanced Training. Enhanced Training.

<http://www.enhancedtraining.com/establishtraining.html>.
Department of State and Regional Development.
22 Dec. 2000. Business Information- Guide to
Programs and Services.
<http://home.vicnet.net.au/~entimp/nies/StratTr
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Bibliography
Foster, Thomas. Managing Quality: An
Integrative Approach. New Jersey: Prentice
Hall, 2001.
Plishker, Gordon. A Guide to Promising
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http://www.ed.gov/pubs/PromPract/pr
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Bibliography
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/trai
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Bibliography

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

Drake & Associates, LTD. 2000.

<http://www.drakehr.com/point2.html>.