Strategic Learning Needs Assessment
Purpose
A strategic learning needs assessment identifies the critical skills required for successfully implementing the organization’s strategy. It defines current gaps and strengths in skill levels to determine the highest impact areas to invest training dollars.
Process
Identify critical roles or clusters of roles that will have the biggest impact on strategy attainment.
Use client-created competency models/skills frameworks/task models or rapidly prototype competency models/skills frameworks/task models using AI tools and our own substantial research and experience.
Conduct a gap analysis of strengths and skill gaps relative to requirements.
Validate gap analysis finds with key stakeholder groups using qualitative and/or quantitative research methods.
Define a comprehensive analysis of learning requirements going forward.
Benefits
Validate training areas based on rigorous analysis.
Produce deliverables that are useful for various talent applications. Examples of these deliverables include: Leadership and technical/functional competencies, task models, skills frameworks, and custom role-based learning pathways.
Ensure training investments target priority skill gaps.
Case Study
When a pharmaceutical company was ramping up its hiring to meet dramatic growth in customer demand, they sought to implement a strategic learning needs assessment that included the development of role-based skill models, gap analysis, and the identification of organizational and role-based learning paths.
Result
The learning needs assessment resulted in targeted investment of training dollars in on-boarding new hires and custom role-based follow-up learning.
