Identifying Training Needs and Preparing Training Plan

Course Objectives

• Familiarizing participants with contemporary and modern concepts in the analysis and identification of training needs and the rules for the preparation of effective training plans
• Providing participants with the required knowledge, skills and tools to effectively identify and analyze training needs, and enable them to develop sound estimated budget
• Providing participants with skills to prepare comprehensive training plans that meet the objectives of the institutions and address their problems and challenges
• Providing participants with the required cases and applications for behavioral change in the collection and analysis of data and information, and scientifically analyzing them to elicit the appropriate training course s and designing the comprehensive training plan

Who Should Attend?

Directors of human Resources and training departments, managers of manpower planning sectors, development sectors, internal organization, oversight and auditing, officials of research units and managerial consultants, whether in the public and private sectors, mixed institutions, community- based organizations and municipalities, those who are prepared and rehabilitated to perform the aforementioned tasks, and those who wish to develop their skills and professional abilities.

Course Outlines

Training process system

• Concept, purpose and types of training and human resource development
• Components, methods and steps of the training process
• Responsibility for the training process
• Institutions training management functions
• Components and steps of the training process

Identifying and analyzing training needs

• Basic concepts for the identification and analysis of training needs
• Basic and pivotal step, the identification of training needs
• Identifying needs (persons to be trained/type of training required/time range)
• Levels of identifying training needs: Institution level – Post level – staff level
• Special needs of the institution, staff and employment
• Responsibility for determining training needs

Tools and methods for determining training needs

• Tools for identifying training needs according to different levels
• Methods for collecting training needs information
• Designing the training needs identification questionnaire
• Training needs in terms of current and future time
• Sources of identifying training needs

Practical workshops on methods of collecting training needs identification information

• Analyzing all documentations as job description cards
• Reports, performance appraisal, analysis and jobs description
• Financial reports and statements, questionnaires and interviews
• Observing behavior and sensing a problem
• Participating the training officer and participating the managers

Final product of training needs (information analysis)

• Personnel required to be trained
• The type and duration of training required for them
• Determining costing of training
• Choosing the ways in which needs can be met.
• Presentation of results, identification of general and behavioral training objectives
• Finalization of the training needs determination report
• Recording and registration training needs
• The need for training and the proposed time-range of training
• Identifying the trainees names and identifying the implementation officer