Rationale for Performance-based Training Needs Assessment
MGO (Major Government Organization)
This needs assessment has not been carried out for the Major Government Organization it was designed for. The model has been meticulously designed, and I beleive it is a very workable model. The caveat in using this approach for a government organization is that it is necessary to understand that administrators may have difficulties getting "buy-in" from management. This issue has been addressed in the training needs assessment. One complaint associated with a needs assessment is that it often develops a list of needs people think, or "feel". will improve performance. Performance analyses are the preferred method used to improve performance, but they have not often been used in a large government organization such as MGO because of the costs incurred and time required in analyzing each of the hundreds of individual sub-offices. It is for that reason that I chose to use this hybrid model referred to as a performance-driven training needs assessment.
Tony Niemann