Learning Needs Analysis

Skills for Health’s Learning Needs Analysis Programme is a two-fold approach to addressing an organisations’ workforce development needs. It helps to identify where improvements can be made to the organisations’ learning needs analysis process, whilst also offering an easy to use toolkit to collate staff learning needs across the organisation.

Benefits

• Helps target and make efficient use of investment by identifying the learning needs of your staff.
• Helps ensure your staff have the right skills.
• Supports staff engagement.
• Supports Personal Development Planning, induction, appraisal and organisation wide skills audits.
• Helps improve staff performance and motivation.
• The Learning Needs Analysis Programme is underpinned by National Occupational Standards (NOS) - nationally recognised and approved standards.

How it works

Firstly, a Learning Needs Analysis Audit is undertaken within the organisation to help define areas where further development is required to improve the process for reviewing and meeting the development needs of staff. The Audit is designed to ascertain whether the organisations’ approach to learning needs analysis is fit for purpose and, if not, what can be done to address any identified shortcoming. The Audit also includes benchmarking by which an organisation can consider its performance against its peers and access to a Skills for Health specialist to help address priority areas for your organisation.

Secondly, access to the Learning Needs Analysis toolkit which is an easy to use on-line tool allows individuals, and line managers, to assess skill levels against nationally recognised standards and identify skills gaps and training needs. The toolkit also provides a means by which an organisation can manage the administration process of collating staff development needs and aggregating the results in an easy to use format.

If you would like to discuss how your organisation could benefit from the Learning Needs Analysis programme, please contact your country or regional representative.