Needs Assessment Basics

Preface

This book is for training professionals—instructional designers, trainers, or training department managers—who want to make sure that their training programs meet the performance needs of their organizations. If you’re reading this book, it’s likely that your goals are to develop the foundation that will ensure the training programs you design and deliver will

• have a bottom-line impact on the business needs of your organization

• ensure that employee performance on the job contributes to that impact

• make certain that the ultimate training design is skill-based to support employee performance back on the job

• guarantee that the training delivery and facilitation are attuned to the learning needs of the participants and support an environment of ...