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To help you prepare for the

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Learning Needs Assessment meeting, please consider the following questions

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Big picture questions

  • What does your Work Package is set to achieve this year?
  • What external factors need to be considered? Think of competition, innovation, industry trends?
  • What internal factors need to be considered? Team collaboration, team knowledge skills homogeneity, time constraints?
  • How do you expect training will relate to achieving these outcomes? 

Understand the Current Performance

  • What knowledge and skills do your team members need to be successful?
  • What kind of projects/activities/tasks are most difficult? Where do things break or stop?
  • What is it that you would like to be able to do? How does this translate into knowledge/skills?

Future needs

  • What does the future look like in your environment?
  • Are there any new ideas, methods, processes, machines or challenges on the horizon?
  • What skills or knowledge needs do you foresee for your Work package in the future?

Training request to submit

  • Which training requests do you want to submit?
  • Which training are Must haves, Nice to haves on a scale of 1-10?
  • Who should be taking part in the programme and why?

Focus on evaluation

in discussion with your Task Leaders. 

 

DELIVERABLES & OBJECTIVES

  • What objectives must your Work Package (WP) achieve this year?
  • How do you evaluate progress towards these objectives?
  • What Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or metrics do you monitor regularly?


CURRENT SITUATION

  • Which KPI or objective is the most challenging - or presents the greatest opportunity for your WP/Task?
  • What knowledge, skills, attitudes or behaviours would enhance the team’s performance towards these deliverables?


FUTURE NEEDS

  • What future challenges or opportunities do you anticipate for GN5? New objectives, processes, systems?
  • What knowledge, skills, attitude and behaviour will be needed?


INDIVIDUAL/TEAM NEEDS

  • What learning needs are you aware of for teams or individuals?
  • What knowledge, skills, attitudes or behaviours would enhance their ability to deliver their objectives?


EVALUATION

  • How will we know that learning has been effective?
  • What metrics can be used to assess how learning has impacted your ability to deliver your Work Package’s KPIs and objectives?


PLANNED TRAINING

  • Does your WP plan to offer any training this year?
  • What support might you need from GLAD? When
  • How will you know that the training worked? How will you measure the desired outcomes?
  • How will we know that the program has been effective?