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Employee training has become a very important aspect of Human resource management. This not only improves the employees Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes towards their work but also motivates them in addition to improving their overall performance. However the first step towards a successful training program is carrying out a training needs assessment. why is it important to do a training needs assessment before training.
Come on !!!! would you put gas into your car before checking it is full or not???
TNA is the starting standards that reveals missing abilities and knowledge in an emplyee and define the suitable traning that should be supplied.
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Too often it is assumed that people know what you think they should know but I can tell you that more often than not there is a lack of knowledge among human resources that requires training. Rather than simply give you my version, I hope this resource will help:
Training Needs Assessment Introduction
The purpose of a training needs assessment is to identify performance requirements and the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by an agency's workforce to achieve the requirements. An effective training needs assessment will help direct resources to areas of greatest demand. The assessment should address resources needed to fulfill organizational mission, improve productivity, and provide quality products and services. A needs assessment is the process of identifying the "gap" between performance required and current performance. When a difference exists, it explores the causes and reasons for the gap and methods for closing or eliminating the gap. A complete needs assessment also considers the consequences for ignoring the gaps.
There are three levels of a training needs assessment:Key steps include:
The results of the needs assessment allows the training manager to set the training objectives by answering two very basic questions: what needs to be done, and why is it not being done now? Then, it is more likely that an accurate identification of whom, if anyone, needs training and what training is needed. Sometimes training is not the best solution, and it is virtually never the only solution. Some performance gaps can be reduced or eliminated through other management solutions, such as communicating expectations, providing a supportive work environment, and checking job fit. These interventions also are needed if training is to result in sustained new behaviors needed to achieve new performance levels, for an individual, an occupation, or an entire organization.
You need to assess the needs of your employees in order to understand what type of training is required for them or else you might end up paying for the wrong type of training and increase your company's costs without benefit.
Also, when this assessment is done you might reduce the cost of training because you could discover that not all your employees need training!
Training should be focused on improving the worker hence there is need to assess what the worker should be trained in
Let me connect with the analogy when we have a fever and we visit the doctor for medication. Before prescribing the medicine dr. will first check our temperature and then decide what to prescribe so TNA helps us to identify the gaps in performance and then based on the gap we'll prescribe a solution. So, TNA help HR to suggest the best possible solution for filling the gap in performance.
Hope this help and do ask, if clarification required!
Base on my previous trainings that I have been attended, we have given a particular topic to answer before the training sessions started, although it is already part of the proram however the Trainor will be able to do assessment of how far the knowledge of the trainee base on their answers. I assumed the attendees would have a general knowledge of the particular sessions. In beginning of the training all the trainees are become active and alert.
Traning of employees always been conducted according to the requirement of the institution which will be very helpful for enhancing the entire attitudes of the company and more fresh and trained employees are the strength of any institution.
TNA is the starting standards that reveals missing abilities and knowledge in an emplyee and define the suitable traning that should be supplied.
To know What training and the level of person.
It opens innitials routes for the new staff to under go a process of understanding the company details policies, rules and regulations, main objectives.