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A Training Needs Analysis (TNA) is an effective way to identify any gaps between the skills your business needs and those your employees have. This involves gathering information to identify areas where your employees could improve their performance. Following a comprehensive review of the results, the TNA facilitates the design of an effective training development plan for your staff.

A TNA can help you clarify your objectives in training your staff. This is invaluable for ensuring that money is spent on training that will help your business to achieve its objectives. The TNA will ensure training is cost-effective and better received. The goal of a TNA is to:

• Decide whether training is really needed
• Find any causes of poor performance
• Decide on the content and scope of training
• Define the required training outcomes

TNA provides an exceptional means of improving service delivery and building the skills of any individual or team. The objective appraisal of skills/training needs is an increasingly vital part of effective customer care and business efficiency. The relatively low cost of undertaking a Training Needs Analysis evaluation enables it to be widely utilised in any organisation and facilitate optimum development of staff and very positive business benefits.

A good TNA tool enables you to:

• Use a friendly assessment of skills at the desktop, preferred by most staff
• Have a reliable and objective insight into any training needs
• Tailor requirements to individuals or entire teams
• Have flexible reporting to meet any organisational structure
• Optimise training value for money
• Utilise an outstanding facility for recruitment and induction processes
• Possess an invaluable tool to aid and appraisal process
• Ensure users receive the optimum level of training and not attend the wrong level of course
• Establish a training budget
• Establish the business case for staff training

Deverill have such a TNA tool which has helped many businesses understand their training needs.

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