_ Effective training need analysis (2020)

After you’ve found your reasons and you know exactly why training programs are a must for your company, you might pursue your what:

What skills should you develop? 

What knowledge should the employees accumulate? 

Well, there are a multitude of needs which employees’ skills gap need to accommodate, but let’s take them step by step.

• Industry-related needs.
  • Why? Because an employee should see the bigger picture. A company is a part of an industry, and the tasks performed by employees represent one piece which make the entire system function.
  • Thus, employees should know this bigger picture and a company or an internal person must bring a learning activity to provide for these needs.
  • Industries are in a continuous change, driven by the evolution which exists at the level of the global business environment, so there is always something new to learn.
• Job-related needs.
  • People must know how to conduct their professional activity efficiently, so they can contribute to the achievement of corporate goals, without neglecting their own professional goals.
  • And they cannot do that in the absence of proper training programs which bring them closer to fulfilling their tasks by providing them with the specific skills and knowledge
  • To set some job-related needs you should talk to the employees which perform these jobs, to ask them what they need to perform better or faster or more efficiently. Engage your teams in the learning needs analysis as part of Agile HR way to become.
• Task-related needs.
  • They refer to specific processes or operations employees and companies must perform which place all the people working on the same task on the same page. The skills gap is at team level and not at person level!