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These are the types of questions that we ask:
Big picture questions:
- What does your Work Package want to achieve this year?
- How do you expect training will relate to these outcomes?
- What external factors need to be considered? Think of competition, innovation, industry growth
- What internal factors need to be considered? Team collaboration, team knowledge skills homogeneity, time constraints?
Understand the Current Performance
- What knowledge and skills do your team members need to be successful?
- Where are the gaps in skills and knowledge?
- What are current problem, bottlenecks or challenges?
- What are the requirements for skills homogeneity?
- What are your needs for non-technical / social 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 program and why?
Focus on evaluation
- How will you measure the desired outcomes?
- How will we know if the program has been effective?
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