Resource for Development workers
ladder4learning have produced a TNA/Skills Audit Portable Resource for Development Workers. If you would like a copy, please email us at the link below.
Guidance/Factsheets/Background
Skills Audit (l4l & Voscur) A toolkit for voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations.
This pack is designed to encourage smaller groups to use skills audits. It will provide you with a variety of tools that you can use and adapt to the needs of your organisation or organisations you are working with. Please contact us at the link below if you would like a copy.
Identifying Learning and Training Needs (Chartered Institute of Professional Development - Revised August 2010) A factsheet giving introductory guidance. It includes information and guidance about how to plan and carry out a TNA.
Training Needs Analysis – (Skills Third Sector)
This section includes a step-by-step guide to carrying out a Training Needs Analysis across all levels of an organisation - organisational, team and individual level.
Online Tools
Skills audits: the skills and knowledge in your group - (NAVCA) SKiLD tools for development workers
This exercise is great for helping groups to work out what skills and knowledge they need. There is a second part to the exercise which gets groups to work out, recognise and celebrate who can already do what.
Training Needs Analysis (Skills Third Sector)
This section includes a step-by-step guide to carrying out a Training Needs Analysis across all levels of an organisation - organisational, team and individual level.
Assessing Voluntary Experiences (Institute for Volunteering Research)
Free downloadable toolkit to uncover the skills acquired through day to day volunteering tasks and to present them in such a way that prospective employers can see how they can be used. The tool is based on research with European partners, but has been piloted in the UK. It is designed so that volunteers can work through it by themselves, but piloting the tool showed that it worked best when it was used by a volunteer with the help of a volunteer manager or co-ordinator (Volunteer Managers might like to refer to Appendix 2 for further information).
Skills Audit/TNA Toolkit (VOSCUR & BDA)
Available to download from the website. This toolkit has been developed with the voluntary and community sector in mind. If you would like to have a word copy of this document to modify, have any feedback on how you have used it or require any support with the process, then please call Sophie Bayley on 0117 909 9949 email: sophieb@voscur.org
DEVA the interactive Workforce Development Online Toolkit (LSC County Durham)
The DEVA Workforce Development Toolkit has been developed by the Learning+Skills Council County Durham, with the support of European funding to help businesses to produce an effective workforce development action plan.
Create a Personal Development Plan (Business Link) - Designed for company owners and managers, this interactive tool will assess your management and leadership skills.
Training needs analysis example - general competencies
This is an example training needs analysis tool and working file, in which you can revise element descriptions (competencies) according to your situation and insert scores from individual skill-set assessments. Lowest scores are obviously the training priorities, although some consideration needs to be overlayed as to the relative importance of the skills.
Excel Spreadsheet version
Excel Spreadsheet version for groups/teams
© alan chapman 2001-06, from www.businessballs.com
Printed Resources
Printed publication Learning Needs Analysis and Evaluation
Learning Needs Analysis and Evaluation will help you ensure that learning in your organisation is focused in the right areas and on the right people. It will help you assess whether learning interventions actually work and deliver improved performance that makes a difference to your business. Learning Needs Analysis and Evaluation is an essential tool that will enable you to demonstrate how learning/training expenditure contributes to your organisation’s overall performance and bottom line. This authoritative book:
• takes business needs as the major driver for learning activities
• explores how learning needs are identified and then clearly specified to ensure that training is targeted effectively
• covers the key area of how to plan for the learning - setting out the role of learning strategies and learning plans
• sets out a systematic four-stage evaluation process to assess whether the learning has been successfully transferred to the workplace and the extent to which it meets organisational objectives and provides value for money.
Tools for tomorrow – A practical guide to strategic planning for voluntary organisations (NCVO)
Toolkit includes case studies and worksheets covering a range of planning activities with relevance to staff development, including SWOT analysis, internal health checks, cost-benefit analysis, performance management and outcome assessment.
Learning needs analysis and evaluation - Frances Bee, Roland Bee, CIPD, 2003
Authoritative textbook style book, giving plenty of information on all stages of the process. Emphasises business needs as the driving force for learning activity. Covers identifying and specifying learning needs, developing a learning and development strategy and plan; and evaluating the learning. This book is particularly strong on evaluation processes with lots of examples of how to approach evaluation at different levels.
The Training Needs Analysis Pocketbook - Paul Donovan & John Townsend, 2004
Management Pocketbooks
Tips and techniques for training needs analysis. Concise style - easy to dip in and out for ideas. Covers the training needs investigation process, information on using competencies as a framework, on transfer of learning back to the workplace and on evaluation. Includes a questionnaire on your readiness you are for TNA which can be used as a starting point for organisations new to the process.