How to Assess Training Needs

Having a good foundation in any process often will assure success! Training needs assessment establishes the framework for evaluating your organization's requirements and the best way for your staff to acquire the essential training they need.

 

A Training Needs Assessment can be performed at any time, but they are most commonly performed after hiring, during performance evaluations, when efficiency improvement is required, for career advancement strategies, for succession planning, or even when organizational changes necessitate making required reforms to employees' jobs. It is important to conduct these evaluations regularly to identify your
organization's training needs, employees' knowledge, and abilities, and training program effectiveness.

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TIPS FROM YOUR TRAINING COMPANY

How Effective Is Your Employee Onboarding Process?

Congratulations, you’ve finally found that perfect new recruit and the organization is excited to get moving.  This person should bring great value to the bottom line, ignite the team culture and help achieve the overall goals of the organization.

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TIPS FROM YOUR TRAINING COMPANY

Congratulations, you’ve finally found that perfect new recruit and the organisation is excited to get moving.  This person should bring great value to the bottom line, ignite the team culture and help achieve the overall goals of the organization.

 

Nisha Amin, Director of Marketing, TrainingFolks

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4 Benefits of Gamification

 

Definition:  gam·i·fi·ca·tion ;ˌ(ɡāmifəˈkāSHən/)

noun               

the application of typical elements of game playing (e.g., point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service.

"gamification is exciting because it promises to make the hard stuff in life fun"

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We’re excited to bring you a roundup of our most read blog posts. As an award winning and top training company, we live, breathe and sleep training. As we pour our morning coffee, we think about all training curve balls that you may be facing. Our water cooler conversations may consist of the words compliance training, organizational development, technology user adoption and virtual instructor-led training. Maybe some of you in the learning and development space can relate, but one of our favorite things to do is bring you practical training solutions and powerful insights around the topic of organizational change.

1. Corporate Training: Top 5 Trends For Training Programs
2. Top 5 Custom eLearning Development Programs/Authoring Tools
3. 7 Steps For Best Practices When Implementing Instructional Design
4. Corporate Training Tips for Creating a Blended Learning Onboarding Training Program for New Employees
5. 5 Public Speaking Tips All Training Consultants Should Know
   
   

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Building a Cost Effective Succession Strategy with Leadership Training

Presenter: Gail McGuire, VP Professional Services

Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013

Location: Raleigh, NC

Details: The Electrical Safety Authority, in partnership with TrainingFolks, developed and established a Senior Leadership Academy (SLA).  SLA provides an incentive for Inspectors who are interested in developing their skills to support a well planned, consistent and cost effective succession strategy for leadership positions at ESA.
The Academy provides interested Inspectors with training that prepares them to move into Senior Inspector positions and front line supervision roles, which play a critical role in the successful implementation of ESA’s Harm Reduction Strategy. The SLA provides participants with the skills and full formal mentoring, designed to support these priorities and the organization.

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