Training Needs Analysis and Performance Counselling

 

Perceptions of the world of work

Enquire Within will show you how the user perceives their world of work. It is then open to you to consider how well these current perceptions equip the user to meet the challenges of the future, and how they might need to change.

The field of enquiry can be as narrow or as broad as you like. For example you could:

• Use it to chart and challenge your understanding of an objective field of knowledge,
• Use it to examine how the user sees his or her key relationships and plan what would need to happen to make them better,
• Look back over situations where the user has needed specific skills - ‘hard’ skills like project management, or ‘soft’ skills like negotiation, influencing, selling, etc., and
• Review the differences between those skills which were handled effectively and those less effectively.

Learning styles

Enquire Within will also help you understand the user’s learning style, without forcing it into a prearranged category system, so that you can plan the learning in the most effective and impactful way

Measuring perceptual changes

Enquire Within will also measure the change in the user’s perceptions after a training or developmental intervention, allowing you to evaluate the success of the intervention

Eight Training Resources

• Discovering people's attitudes or beliefs. A repertory grid attitude survey designed to establish management training needs commissioned by a successful manufacturing organisation interested in moving from autocratic to more consultative/participative ways of managing.
• An example of evaluating the long-term effects of a standard engineering graduate training course - the relevance of different parts of the course back at the job.
• Getting Value For Money From Your Career Training.
• An example of using Enquire Within to evaluate a management development course which happened some time ago.
• Training Programme Evaluation (Getting Value for Money) Using Repertory Grid
• A Little on Learning.
• A useful set of training needs analysis resources from The Training Professional's Gateway

A Research Example

The derivation of a `business' (as compared with sporting) derived definition or framework for mental toughness.

Lee Williams at the University of Manchester, UK proposes research entitled: What is business mental toughness and what effect does it have on the performance of business professionals?

The study will use Personal Construct Theory and Repertory Grid Technique to assess the phenomenon of mental toughness within a business context by using the experiences and opinions of business professionals. The study will provide a general definition of `business' mental toughness, identify the key characteristics of the phenomenon under different business contexts, and develop a method by which to assess mental toughness within business professionals.

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