Needs Assessment on a Shoestring

Jody Lumsden, Jones Kelly

Description

The Association for Talent Development’s On a Shoestring series helps professionals successfully execute core topics in training and talent development when facing limitations of time, money, staff, and other resources. Using the Build-Borrow-Buy approach to problem solving, this series is designed for practitioners who work as a department of one; for new or “accidental” trainers, instructional designers, and learning managers who need fast, inexpensive access to practical strategies that work; and for those who work for small organizations or in industries that have limited training and development resources. 

• COMPACT FORMAT FOR RESOURCE-STRAPPED READER: In crash-course, everything-you-need-and-nothing-you-don’t style, it teaches readers to determine whether training is the solution to meet an organizational need. A fresh relief from the dense textbook-like books on the market, this one uses the On a Shoestring series organizational approach of Build-Borrow-Buy. Is a perfect resource for small companies—and departments of one or few—who need to get started right away with limited time and budget.
• REPLETE WITH TOOLS: Forms, aids, checklists, and more right where you need them. Guides the reader through a needs-assessment process with practical tips and tools dropped right in the flow to help put theory to immediate use.
• CREDIBLE AUTHORS:Authors Kelly L. Jones and Jody N. Lumsden are instructional design and learning and development (L&D) experts, each with 15+ years of experience in instructional design and building L&D programs large and small. They are well-versed in change management.

Determine Organizational Needs Despite Limited Resources 

Needs Assessment on a Shoestring offers talent development professionals a process for addressing organizational needs and determining whether training is the solution. Needs assessment pros Kelly L. Jones and Jody N. Lumsden apply the Build-Borrow-Buy approach to provide guidance, quick tips, and shortcuts for investigating and uncovering everything you can about the organizational problem you need to solve.

With this book, you will learn to build a needs assessment strategy, gather insight through data analysis, and put forward effective solution recommendations. You’ll also pick up strategies for borrowing existing information, talent, and resources, and for making resource management decisions. Regardless of the scope of the project, the constraints of the business problem, or how you get the job done, the steps associated with needs assessments are flexible enough to scale up or down.

To conduct high-quality needs assessments, think like a detective. The detectives Sherlock Holmes, Velma Dinkley, and Hercule Poirot didn’t have large teams, unlimited budgets, or a bottomless well of resources to work with, but they succeeded by identifying who, where, and how to solve mysteries that no one else could. With this book, talent development professionals can too. This is a perfect resource for small companies—and departments of one or few—who need to get started right away.

The Association for Talent Development’s On a Shoestring series helps professionals successfully execute core topics in training and talent development when facing limitations of time, money, staff, and other resources. Using the Build-Borrow-Buy approach to problem solving, this series is designed for practitioners who work as a department of one; for new or “accidental” trainers, instructional designers, and learning managers who need fast, inexpensive access to practical strategies that work; and for those who work for small organizations or in industries that have limited training and development resources. 

About the On a Shoestring Series

Dedication and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. Build

Chapter 1. Building the Strategy

Chapter 2. Building the Case: Data Collection

Chapter 3. Building the Case: Data Analysis

Chapter 4. Building the Recommendations

Part 2. Borrow

Chapter 5. Borrowing Existing Data

Chapter 6. Borrowing Time and Talent

Part 3. Buy

Chapter 7. Budgeting for Time

Chapter 8. Buying Smart

Chapter 9. Buy-In

Bringing It All Together

Appendix A. Tools and Templates

Appendix B. A Worked Example

Index

References and Resources

About the Authors

Sujets

• Efficacité professionnelle
• Organizational Development
• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• Organization development
• Training
• Economics
• Business
• Survêtement
• Gestion d'équipe

Informations

• Publié par: Association for Talent Development
• Date de parution: 14 novembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781957157085
• Langue: English

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