1st Edition

Learning and Performance A Systemic Model for Analysing Needs and Evaluating Training

By Bryan Hopkins Copyright 2017
258 Pages 69 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 69 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 69 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Changing work roles, greater emphasis on individual autonomy, the growing importance of relationships, the complexity of many businesses; all these things call into question the prevailing approach to training needs analysis and evaluation, which still tends to be based on a simple gap analysis between job requirements and an employee's knowledge and skills. Bryan Hopkins's  Learning and... Read more

Chapter 1. What is this book about?  Chapter 2. What is systems thinking?  Chapter 3. Analysing training needs Chapter 4. Evaluating training  Chapter 5. Key concepts in systems thinking  Chapter 6. Tools to help systems thinking Chapter 7. How do people learn?  Chapter 8. Systemic approaches to analysing training needs  Chapter 9. Specifying learning activities  Chapter 10. Systemic approaches for evaluating training  Chapter 11. Bringing it all together

Biography

Bryan Hopkins is an independent consultant who specialises in helping international organisations and NGOs in the humanitarian and development sectors develop training strategies and programmes and evaluate performance improvement activities. He is currently working on developing training to support REDD+ implementation as well as undertaking research for his Master's dissertation on the connection among training courses, informal learning and communities of practice.