Needs Assessment Basics

Making Training Recommendations

Training recommendations are just that: recommendations that the training professional develops to meet the training-related needs that were identified in the needs assessment study. Training recommendations usually include the following areas:

• the learning objectives for the to-be-developed training course

• parts of the training course content that should be emphasized or deemphasized to avoid producing a generalized “grab-bag” content set

• activities to focus on particular skills; because of the needs identified for a particular course/audience, it can be recommended for some content to be addressed simply at the knowledge level, whereas other content that is more important for the purpose at hand should be addressed ...