Making The Connection: Effective ways to link training needs to organizational goals

A proper training needs assessment is the foundation for building an effective workplace learning and development strategy that is well aligned with strategic organizational goals. Yet many Canadian small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) simply lack the in-house resources to take this crucial step.
Recognizing these challenges, the Centre for Workplace Skills has launched a knowledge gathering project to identify effective practices in organizational training needs assessment for small and medium-sized enterprises. Reviewing innovative and promising training needs assessment practices of a sample of Canadian and international SMEs, this project will:

• demonstrate how SMEs effectively link their training programs to their business strategies;
• identify innovative tools, tactics, resources and practice models;
• make clear connections between organizational needs assessment and successful business strategies.

The Centre for Workplace Skills has contracted the Centre for Learning Impact to conduct this research, to be released in December of 2011. The project builds upon the insights and information presented in the Centre's Investing in Skills: Effective Work-related Learning in SMEs project.

For more information, please contact: info@workplaceskills.ca