Training Needs
Like any investment, in order to strive for the best possible returns for all relevant stakeholders, the training and development activities of any organisation have to be targeted, planned and managed.
Many organisations formalise the process by providing a budget and resource for training. Whilst it is clear that investing in people makes good business sense, providing a budget or resource to do so will not in itself ensure the investment is a good one.
Therefore, understanding the training needs for your business will be a key factor in determining how successful your investment will ultimately prove to be.
provides the tools and methods to identify training needs within your organisation. By matching existing personal abilities against the core competencies required, which may include the use of assessment centres, we can identify appropriate individual development needs. More details>>
As part of our training needs analysis, we utilise competence studies. Why? Because in our experience competence studies provide the most accurate definition of training needs.
Much study has been carried out to help determine the key competencies required by people to be effective in many different kinds of work.
An appreciation of the importance of the use of competencies in professional growth, recruitment and assessment is essential for investment in these activities to be accurately targeted.
What is a competency? A competency is a set of skills, attitudes and other personal qualities that combine to make a person effective in a particular aspect of their work. More details>>
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