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Resources: websites and books
Websites
Businesslink
The skills and training area of this site includes a straightforward guide to training, which includes information on Training Needs Analysis and related topics.
Investors in People
Framework for developing the people within your organisation. The IiP standard outlines what organisations should be doing about learning and development at different levels of their organisation.
Vol Resource – Managing People
Concise introduction to managing people and teams. It includes some useful advice on appraisal, training and creating learning organisations.
Books
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.
Training Needs Analysis Pocketbook
Paul Donovan & John Townsend, 2004
Management Pocketbooks
Tips and techniques for training needs analysis in a concise style which is 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 how ready you are for Training Needs Analysis which can be used as a starting point for organisations new to the process.