Training Strategy Development

Analyze Your Needs

The first step in putting together a training strategy is to look at the needs of your business. What are the types of skills, knowledge, and expertise that the employees of a successful company in your industry need to have? What are your company’s business goals and strategies?

Identify Skill Gaps

Next, take a look at the gaps that may exist between needed knowledge, skills, and abilities, and employee competencies. Which of the critical skills you identified do employees have? Which are they lacking? This analysis can be done on both an individual employee basis and companywide.

Prioritize Key Things

Ideally, your training program will imbue your employees with all the skills needed to make your company a strong competitor in your industry. But, in reality, you are going to be faced with finite resources—time and money—and there are likely some skills that are more important than others.