Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to plan and conduct a 3-level analysis of an organisation’s training needs. It involves collecting and analysing information about the organisation and its job roles and functions, determining current, emerging and future skill and knowledge needs, determining current skills and knowledge of individual employees, and providing advice on vocational training and assessment to meet those needs.
This unit applies to experienced VET teachers, trainers and assessors who use a range of technical competencies to identify and advise on organisational training needs.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

The individual must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:
• undertake a training needs analysis for 2 different organisations.
In the course of the above and for each organisation, the individual must:
• develop at least 1 recommendation for vocational training and assessment
• develop at least 1 recommendation within scope of own role that does not relate to vocational training and assessment.

Knowledge Evidence

The individual must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:
• legislative and vocational education and training (VET) regulatory requirements relevant to undertaking organisational training needs analysis, including:
• complying with requirements in nationally recognised training products
• complying with the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF)
• tailoring to target groups
• engaging with industry and industry relevance
• organisational policies and procedures relevant to undertaking organisational training needs analysis, including:
• engaging with organisations
• preparing reports
• confidentiality of commercial information
• privacy of personal information
• work health and safety
• key content of nationally recognised training products relevant to recommending training and assessment:
• endorsed training package qualifications
• endorsed training package skill sets
• endorsed training package and accredited course units of competency and assessment requirements
• accredited course documents.
• dimensions of competency
• training needs analysis methodology, including:
• McGhee and Thayer's Three-Level Analysis
• micro-environment and macro-environment
• collecting and analysing qualitative and quantitative data
• analysing job descriptions
• analysing job tasks
• surveying staff
• sources and types of industry, workplace and job role information
• target group characteristics and implications for undertaking training needs analysis, including:
• foundation skill levels
• previous learning and work experience
• advanced and other complex learning needs
• requirements of current and potential job roles
• risk mitigation
• types of recommendations for addressing the identified current, emerging and future training needs:
• vocational training and assessment based on products that are nationally recognised
• non-accredited training
• licensing
• foundation skills support
• inhouse professional development
• organisational restructure
• job role change
• workforce plan
• process change
• organisational policy and procedure update
• performance management
• investment in resources
• mechanisms to gain and analyse feedback on training needs analysis process to improve practice.

Assessment Conditions

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a real or simulated vocational education and training environment.
This includes access to:
• 2 organisations requiring a training needs analysis
• key staff from the organisations described in performance evidence
• access to information from the 2 organisations.
Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Digital literacy', 'description': 'Uses main features and functions of digital tools and electronic applications required in own role in a range of contexts to access and exchange information, conduct research and complete work tasks'}
• {'skill': 'Reading', 'description': 'Interprets a range of information relating to training needs analysis'}
• {'skill': 'Writing', 'description': 'Prepares formal reports containing accurate information and informed recommendations using language, format and style appropriate to audience and context'}
• {'skill': 'Oral communication', 'description': 'Leads verbal exchanges and uses appropriate language to discuss training needs and recommendations'}
• {'skill': 'Numeracy', 'description': 'Collates, summarises, analyses, extrapolates and discusses statistical data; Represents statistical data in tables and graphs appropriate to audience and context'}
• {'skill': 'Self-management', 'description': 'Identifies and takes responsibility for adherence to legal requirements and organisational procedures'}
• {'skill': 'Initiative and enterprise', 'description': 'Negotiates, consults and builds rapport to obtain broad agreement and input'}
• {'skill': 'Planning and organising', 'description': 'Plans, organises and completes work according to requirements, taking responsibility for decisions and sequencing tasks to achieve outcomes'}

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