The premise of Needs Assessment Basics is simple and powerful: organizational and individual training needs cannot be separated from the business needs of an organization. Without a focused needs assessment process, trainers end up developing and delivering training that does not solve the right problem and, worse, delivering training that the target audience finds irrelevant and the organization dismisses as a poor investment. Needs Assessment Basics is written specifically to show you how to accomplish the important training goal of delivering relevant training as a business partner of your organization. To deliver on this individual and organizational value promise, the book offers a seven-phase needs assessment model that begins with an external and internal organizational scan and ends with the presentation of key data collected to the client. In all phases, the author reminds the reader to keep an eye on the real business and performance gap.
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Key concepts, useful case studies, tips, techniques, and job aids in an easy-to-read format tha skillfully lead you through the assessment process: Needs Assessment Basics has it all. Even better, Deborah Tobey helps us negotiate the process within the context of today's time- and resource-deprived business environment that often forces needs analysis to the bottom of our-to-do lists. A must-read for training professionals. --Toby Cannon, Director, Training & Development, Broadcast Music
This book will be an integral part of your reference library. It is well designed and easy to read; Deborah Tobey has created the perfect guide to needs assessment. --M. Sharon Bartee, Human Resource Manager, General Mills-Pillbury
All of Deborah Tobey's years of corporate, consulting, and academic experience shine through in this book. Needs Assessment Basics is a practical guide for anyone wishing to generate results through training including those new to the training field, seasoned HRD practitioners, or any business leader involved in training. If you are searching for proven strategies and practical tools to help ensure training delivers real impact. this book delivers them. --Mark K. Marshall, Vice President, Lee Hecht Harrison
This book will be an integral part of your reference library. It is well designed and easy to read; Deborah Tobey has created the perfect guide to needs assessment. --M. Sharon Bartee, Human Resource Manager, General Mills-Pillbury
All of Deborah Tobey's years of corporate, consulting, and academic experience shine through in this book. Needs Assessment Basics is a practical guide for anyone wishing to generate results through training including those new to the training field, seasoned HRD practitioners, or any business leader involved in training. If you are searching for proven strategies and practical tools to help ensure training delivers real impact. this book delivers them. --Mark K. Marshall, Vice President, Lee Hecht Harrison
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Deborah Davis Tobey has 20 years of experience in the HRD field and is principal of solo consulting practice in human and organization performance improvement, DEB TOBEY LLC. She works with client organizations in consulting skills development and consulting systems; training needs assessment, design, facilitation, and evaluation; strategic planning; team building; group process consultation; competency modeling; and leadership development.
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This is a very simplistic and realistic read to what really goes on in corporate world. Really helps you understand different audiences that you have to work with in order to determine if training is the need and the tools you need to collect data that will support training if it is a need
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Do you remember the old story about coal miners using canaries to test the atmosphere when they were down in the mines? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legal interview questions, potential training intervention, escalated grievances, filler dots, hiring push, needs assessor, needs assessment stages, data collection questions, interview skills training, organization scan, training request, needs assessment study, data analysis findings, extant data, data collection plan, critical incident interviews, job task analysis, training recommendations, job performers, needs assessment process, assessment data collection, phone representatives, performance consulting, training design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Whitewater Outfitters, Basic Rule, Method Stage, Tracy Waddell, Interview Waddell, City Slicker, Interview Stewart, Low Medium High, Source Stage, Interview Johnson, Riley Johnson, Using Stage, Chris Martin, Needs Was Was Training New!
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legal interview questions, potential training intervention, escalated grievances, filler dots, hiring push, needs assessor, needs assessment stages, data collection questions, interview skills training, organization scan, training request, needs assessment study, data analysis findings, extant data, data collection plan, critical incident interviews, job task analysis, training recommendations, job performers, needs assessment process, assessment data collection, phone representatives, performance consulting, training design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Whitewater Outfitters, Basic Rule, Method Stage, Tracy Waddell, Interview Waddell, City Slicker, Interview Stewart, Low Medium High, Source Stage, Interview Johnson, Riley Johnson, Using Stage, Chris Martin, Needs Was Was Training New!
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- The Training Trilogy (Second Edition) by Dick Leatherman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Learning to Listen by Celestine Houston in Back Matter
- The Winning Trainer (Building Blocks of Human Potential) by J. E. Eitington in Back Matter
- Presentations Plus: David Peoples' Proven Techniques by David A. Peoples in Back Matter
- Mastering Business Presentations by Morey Stettner in Back Matter
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