Kathryn’s learning team functioned well. They were in the third year of a five-year plan that was clear and had a dedicated budget to accomplish its objectives. The main goal each year was to update 10% of their learning assets and make them available in digital format.
Kathryn, the chief learning officer of a large manufacturing company, was recently handed a challenge. Her company acquired another company and was growing from 4,500 to 7,000 team members in a matter of weeks. Kathryn’s learning team had to figure out how to provide world-class learning experiences while speeding up their transition to digital. What she needed was a thorough needs analysis. The learning experts at Inno-Versity are going to tell the story of Kathryn’s needs analysis journey.
This eBook is written as a story. It’s a fable, if you will. But even though the company, AshCom, is fictional, the learning challenges faced by Kathryn, AshCom’s CLO, and her team are real and commonly shared by learning teams in corporations, non-profits, associations, and education. While this might not be the typical format for an eBook on Learning Needs Analysis, it is our hope that you will be able to connect with the characters, their challenges, and the solutions they discover. Building and following a Needs Analysis system is vital to the success of the learning opportunities we create. Get an inside glimpse of this essential process as AshCom follows the seven elements of the Needs Analysis.
When starting a project, L&D teams often begin with a pile of the content of everything ever taught or trained in. But starting with content stalls a remote-learning strategy before it ever gets off the ground. Curriculum mapping effectively organizes and prioritizes program goals, learning objectives, existing content, source materials, and potential assessment strategies.
