A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment, Third Edition
For fifteen years, A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment has been the
go-to text for those who are seeking useful, systematic approaches to
needs assessment. Needs assessment is the first step in training,
performance improvement, and community development projects.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition contains a treasury of
resources including a toolkit of ready-to-use templates and job aids
that you can customize for your own use. Illustrative case studies and
tips show how to assess needs for individuals, teams, organizations,
government agencies, and communities.
This book combines a how-to text and reference tool for trainers,
performance improvement professionals, and students. Managers and
community leaders use it to get to the root of their learning and
performance problems, make effective decisions, and obtain support for
their most pressing issues.
Updates to the third edition include:
- Links to online resources, including a needs assessment book that you
can download for free, ethical guidelines, and vendors who assess
individual, group and organizational needs.
- A new chapter on the complex needs assessment approach with new
toolkit forms.
- A summary of the recent advances in our knowledge about learning,
training, and performance that you can use to quickly prepare for
client meetings.
- Guidelines on workforce surveys, such as employee engagement surveys.
- An Instructor's Guide that contains discussion questions, assessments
materials, and new exercises for each chapter.
You can use this book to quickly access up-to-date information on the
fundamentals of needs assessment including current models, theories, and
resources. You can also learn how to manage and report a needs
assessment project and access professional ethical guidelines. Learn
five approaches to needs assessment: knowledge and skills analysis, job
and task analysis, competency-based needs assessment, strategic needs
assessment, and complex needs assessment.
