Conducting Reliable Needs Assessments

Not offered until Spring 2013

This highly interactive course will help aspiring trainers learn how to conduct needs assessments and help experienced trainers refresh their skills. As trainers, we know we should assess needs, but the barriers of time, resources, and lack of know-how often get in our way. In this course, you will learn:

• the appropriate scope and methods of a needs assessment
• good practices for assessing the needs of individuals, groups, and organizations
• how to conduct the 3 most critical forms of assessment: All- employee surveys, individual interviews, and focus groups
• how to decide when training is needed and when it is not
• how to do on-the-spot assessments
• practical applications for using this information back at work

Ellen Gottlieb M.Ed., is co-owner of Human Resources Partners, LLC, a human resources consulting firm. She has more than 20 years' experience in organizational development, training, and management consultation. She has provided training and consultation in team development, executive and mid-level management coaching, and personnel and the law, including issues related to sexual harassment, hiring, managing performance, and terminations.

3 sessions, 12:30 - 4:30 PM

$295 (12 contact hours/ 1.2 CEUs)
Abromson Center, 88 Bedford Street, USM Portland campus