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Why Needs Assessment?

What’s Inside This Chapter

This chapter provides an overview of the book, focusing on the multiple purposes of needs assessment and serving as a foundation for the rest of the book. You’ll learn:

definitions of some important terms

the purposes of training needs assessment

the phases in training needs assessment

how the training needs assessment sets the stage for training evaluation.

 

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Why Needs Assessment?

Introduction: An Analogy

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