2nd Edition
Roland And Frances Bee
Pages: 288 Published: April 2003
ISBN: 0852929676
ISBN13: 9780852929674
Price: £31.99
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Description
Learning Needs Analysis and Evaluation will help you to ensure that learning in your organisation is focused in the right areas and on the right people. It will help you assess whether learning interventions actually work and deliver improved performances that make a difference to your business.
This authoritative book:
- takes business needs as the major driver for learning activities
- explores how learning needs are identified and then clearly specified to ensure that training is targeted effectively
- covers the key area of how to plan for the learning - setting out the role of learning strategies and learning plans
- sets out a systematic four-stage evaluation process to assess whether the learning has been successfully transferred to the workplace and the extent to which it meets organisational objectives and provides value for money.
Contents
SECTION 1: BUSINESS NEEDS - THE DRIVING FORCE
Factors Impacting on Business Needs
Planned and Unplanned Business Needs
SECTION 2: IDENTIFYING LEARNING NEEDS - TRANSLATING THE BUSINESS NEEDS INTO ACTION
Human Resource Planning
Succession Planning
Critical Incidents
Management Information Systems
Performance Management Systems
Is There a Learning Need?
SECTION 3: SPECIFYING LEARNING NEEDS
Job Specifications
Investigating the Performance Gap
SECTION 4: TRANSLATING LEARNING NEEDS INTO LEARNING ACTION
The Spectrum of Learning - From Formal to Informal
The Learning Specification
Make or Buy Decisions
SECTION 5: PLANNING THE LEARNING
Assembling and Prioritising the Information
The Learning and Development Strategy and Plan
SECTION 6: EVALUATING THE LEARNING
Setting the Scene
Collecting the Data
Reaction Level Evaluation (Level 1)
Learning Level Evaluation (Level 2)
Performance Level Evaluation (Levels 3 and 4)
Cost-Effectiveness and the Cost/Benefit of Learning
Analysing Evaluation Results
Presenting and Using Evaluation Results
SECTION 7: REFLECTIONS
Reflections
Related resources
A sample chapter of this publication is available:
Chapter 13 Learning Needs Analysis and Evaluation
About the author(s)
Roland And Frances Bee
Frances and Roland Bee are personnel and learning consultants in their own business, Time for People, specialising in learning needs analysis and learning evaluation, and have worked with a wide variety of public and private sector organisations. Their backgrounds, which include experience as HR professionals, finance managers and line managers, give them a unique perspective on the area.
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