Training Needs Analysis and Strategies for Employee Development

HRD-First Sit Assessment

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Importance of Training needs analysis in organisations and to employees................................3
Training strategies appropriate for dealing with employee’s behaviours, skills and attitudes.. .5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Training and development means some educational activities within the firm which is
created in order to encourage people so that they can work properly. It is helpful to enhance the
personal and professional skills and knowledge level of staff members. Human resource of the
company major role is to select talented and right candidates and provide them training so that it
will be beneficial for firm’s performance. With the help of information and detailed instruction
managers of the company provide their team members a change to perform better to complete
their task.
The present report will provide detailed information about training and learning to improve
individual performance and self-management of people. This can be done through variety of
educational programs and techniques in order to motivate the employees. Mostly companies are
more focused on basic training and development programs to help employees grow their
technical skills, soft skills and basic communication skills which is beneficial for team work and
personal development/growth.
Importance of Training needs analysis in organisations and to employees.
Key problems- the issues faced MCC includes budgetary pressures, find savings and
provide services, a need to provide continuing development and learning programs of old and
new staff and also meeting increasing demands for services.
In order to deal with situation, MCC is considering a major cross council transformation
programme for the benefit of people. For this, managers want to control budgets and make
important and financial decisions.
Training programs provide lots of benefits to employees such as increase company’s
performance, boost employee performance, improve organisational culture. It is said that training
is a job oriented process which needs to adopt by employees of the company and members of the
organisation so that it can be helpful to develop personal skills. The major aim of training is to
develop skills and knowledge that are mostly needed to perform company’s task and their
existing job roles. Training help staff members improve their interpersonal skills to deal with
difficult task and learn new skills to accept challenges and become more competent at their jobs
responsibilities.

In today’s business environment, staff members of the company are required to be full of
knowledge and skilled in order to better perform their tasks. It is necessary for them to complete
their task or projects on given time period and perform in most effective and safe manner. So it is
important to review the state of employees training and development programs.
Advantages- A training needs analysis allows company to evaluate the employee’s performance,
knowledge level gaps, performance that diminish staff member’s productivity. Training needs
analysis is helpful to identify knowledge gaps of employees and understand their skills. This
method is really effective and helpful in improving solutions to assist the staff members and
company to build behavioural change. For example- for students and employees, conducting a
training needs analysis is their first and important stage to improve a successful training
program.
For an effective training program, proper training needs analysis is the major step to deal
with problem (Manresa, Bikfalvi and Simon, 2019). This method helps employees to determine
all the related programs of training that is essential to be completed in a certain period to allow
team so that they can easily complete their responsibilities and task. It is essential to understand
why people should do assessment on within time period.
Avoid wasting time on irrelevant training- with this method, an organisation can get a clear
and effective understanding of what is going on in the sessions. People can easily get knowledge
about training that not needed much efforts, money and time.
Identify knowledge gap- the major advantage of using this method is to identify employee’s
knowledge gap, so that it can be helpful to make necessary improvements. With the help of this
technique, one can identify the gaps in order to avoid any uncertainty (Rodriguez and Walters,
2017). So, it is important to outlines a potential issue and handle it, rather than becoming aware
of the skills gaps.
Reviewing past and current training programs- sometime it is difficult for people to check
what current training activities and programs are being implemented. So, it is essential for people
to review past and current performance, it will provide detailed information about weaknesses
and strengths in order to make present program more effective. This will make great
coordination between employees of the company. For example- in the company, managers of the
firm review past performance of the staff members