Julie will be facilitating!
Assess Training Needs
Part of the Professional Trainer Certificate, University of Minnesota Continuing Education
Identifying training needs and deciding on solutions is a challenge virtually every training professional experiences. Using various assessment tools and best practices enables you to identify the knowledge and skills gaps of your training audiences. This course will focus on uncovering root causes of performance problems and linking needs analysis results to specific performance improvement solutions. You will learn not only what to ask, buthow to ask it.
Following the course you will be able to:
- Ensure success by gaining commitment from senior leadership
- Assess training needs at the individual, group, and organization level
- Develop assessment instruments such as surveys, and conduct focus groups
- Link needs assessment to organization strategy and competency profiles/models
- Determine when training is an appropriate performance improvement solution
Next session: August 20-21, 2014.
Julie Berg, M.A. is a training and OD consultant and leadership coach, and has more than 20 years of experience across industries. At HealthPartners and Ceridian, she provided leadership assessment and development, team coaching, training design, and facilitation. She also managed a corporate training function.