A Guide to Assessing Needs

2012-01-06 Business & Economics

Author : Ryan Watkins
Release : 2012-01-06
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 681/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Guide to Assessing Needs by : Ryan Watkins

Download or read book A Guide to Assessing Needs written by Ryan Watkins. This book was released on 2012-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest decisions that lead to development projects are among the most critical in determining long-term success. This phase of project development transforms exciting ideas into project proposals, setting the stage for a variety of actions that will eventually lead (if all goes well) to desirable results. From deciding to propose a sanitation project in South Asia to selecting approaches that strengthen school management in South America, these decisions are the starting place of development. This book is your guide to having assessing needs and then making essential decisions about what to do next. Needs assessments support this early phase of project development with proven approaches for gathering information and making justifiable decisions. Filled with practical strategies, tools, and guides, you will find that this book covers both large-scale formal needs assessments, as well as less-formal assessments that guide daily decisions. Included in the book is a blend of rigorous methods and realistic tools that can help you make informed and reasoned decisions. Use the tools featured in the book to conduct focus groups, develop surveys, prioritize needs, and lead group decision-making; developing a comprehensive, yet realistic, approach to identifying needs and selecting among alternative ways forward.

A Guide to Assessing Needs

2012-01-06 Business & Economics

Author : Ryan Watkins
Release : 2012-01-06
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
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Download or read book A Guide to Assessing Needs written by Ryan Watkins. This book was released on 2012-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making informed decisions is the essential beginning to any successful development project. Before the project even begins, you can use needs assessment approaches to guide your decisions. This book is filled with practical strategies that can help you define the desired results and select the most appropriate activities for achieving them.

Needs Assessment

1993 Business & Economics

Author : Roger A. Kaufman
Release : 1993
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 582/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Needs Assessment written by Roger A. Kaufman. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for anyone involved in planning, management, administration, organizational change, assessment, evaluation and renewal. It is for: people who must decide where to go and justify why; those who conduct needs assessments; administrators, managers, executives. It provides professionals with advice on the type of needs assessent they should use, why and how. The book provides an explanation of different types of needs assessments, when each is most appropriate to use, and how to successfully construct each type of needs assessment.

A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment

2014-01-21 Business & Economics

Author : Catherine M. Sleezer
Release : 2014-01-21
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment written by Catherine M. Sleezer. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment, Third Edition For fifteen years, A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment has been the go-to text for those who are seeking useful, systematic approaches to needs assessment. Needs assessment is the first step in training, performance improvement, and community development projects. This thoroughly revised and updated edition contains a treasury of resources including a toolkit of ready-to-use templates and job aids that you can customize for your own use. Illustrative case studies and tips show how to assess needs for individuals, teams, organizations, government agencies, and communities. This book combines a how-to text and reference tool for trainers, performance improvement professionals, and students. Managers and community leaders use it to get to the root of their learning and performance problems, make effective decisions, and obtain support for their most pressing issues. Updates to the third edition include: Links to online resources, including a needs assessment book that you can download for free, ethical guidelines, and vendors who assess individual, group and organizational needs. A new chapter on the complex needs assessment approach with new toolkit forms. A summary of the recent advances in our knowledge about learning, training, and performance that you can use to quickly prepare for client meetings. Guidelines on workforce surveys, such as employee engagement surveys. An Instructor’s Guide that contains discussion questions, assessments materials, and new exercises for each chapter. You can use this book to quickly access up-to-date information on the fundamentals of needs assessment including current models, theories, and resources. You can also learn how to manage and report a needs assessment project and access professional ethical guidelines. Learn five approaches to needs assessment: knowledge and skills analysis, job and task analysis, competency-based needs assessment, strategic needs assessment, and complex needs assessment.

Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments

1995-09-07 Business & Economics

Author : Belle Ruth Witkin
Release : 1995-09-07
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 104/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments written by Belle Ruth Witkin. This book was released on 1995-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sometimes a book appears on your desk that successfully defines a field. You look at the book and say "thank you." Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments is such a book. . . . This book is clearly grounded in program planning and is not an afterthought or add-on to some other field. . . . I am excited to see this book appear in print. It clearly fills a niche that has been empty for some time: a practical approach to learning about and conducting needs assessments. . . . This is a marvelous book that should make a significant contribution to the field." --From the Foreword by Nick Eastmond, Utah State University "While it has the depth and breadth to be used in a classroom, Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments is written simply and directly enough to be a hands-on guide for needs assessment users and practitioners. The framework proposed by the authors is excellent in that it is readily understood and focuses attention on the most important details/issues in needs assessment practice. The fact that they also present an explanation of so many tools, including examples, makes the book required reading for anyone intending to plan or contract for a needs assessment." --John Theiss, Director of Planning and Evaluation, Texas

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