Analyze - Risks

Analysis is the foundation of targeted training. If you skip this step, there are risks.

• You will teach the wrong things, or teach more than you need for the productivity result you seek to achieve.

  You will have no basis for choosing course content. You may omit training that will enable critical skills or include training for skills that are of low criticality or not needed.

Each minute of training development and time in the classroom costs money. If you are investing for higher productivity through skilled performance, then you must identify the essential skills that you are looking for. If your budget is limited then you must choose only to train those skills that will deliver a bottom line payoff for you. Otherwise you have not used your investment funds as wisely as you could have.

• Your training will not result in skills performed at an acceptable level

  How can you know if the trainee can perform adequately? If you are looking for performance improvement or skills achievement, then in the analysis phase you must define what performance is acceptable so that you can measure whether it is achieved. Without this defined measurement, you won't know what has been achieved. You risk wasting time, money and producing a false sense of ability on the part of the trainees. If their job is dangerous to themselves or others, then risks of inadequate performance and potential liabilities could be high.

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