A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment American Society for Training & Development | 3 Edition

Details about A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment American Society for Training & Development:

Shows how to use data-based needs assessments to frame people-related problems and performance improvement opportunities, obtain support from those who are affected by the changes, make effective decisions, and increase efficiency. Revised as a resource for both students and practitioners, this new edition takes the reader through the fundamentals of needs assessment, provides guidelines for conducting a variety of needs assessment (knowledge and skill assessment, job and task analysis, competency-based needs assessment, and strategic needs assessment), and offers suggestions for managing needs assessments. It also describes techniques for collecting and analyzing data, ethical guidelines, models and theories, and frequently asked questions and provides a many ready-to-use worksheets and other tools. The landscape for needs assessment has changed in the last four years and the authors bring this popular book up to date with a new section addressing technology-enhanced needs assessment, a new section devoted to case studies and real-work examples, new ways of working with management and managing projects including sample proposals and reports to management, expansions and updates on data collection, and updates on new modes of training covering systems thinking, culture, and social networks. The Toolkit section will feature updated and many new references, tables, forms, worksheets, job aids, and other helpful tools. Tricks of the Trade will be completely updated, presenting new and expert (and global) ways of dealing with issues that arise when conducting a needs assessment. A Student Guide, a new online resource for this edition, will offer additional case studies, worksheets, study guides, summaries, and helpful hints. The popular Instructor’s Guide will be updated to reflect new content and the Student Guide.