From the course: How to Design and Deliver Training Programs

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Analyze training needs

Analyze training needs

- How do you know what to train? Perhaps more important, how do you know what content to leave out? The first step in the ADDIE model, analyze, will help us determine the answers to those questions. This step involves looking at our training audience and trying to understand what they need in order to accomplish the training objective. You can do a straightforward analysis if you answer three questions about your audience. Number one is readiness. What will the audience gain from learning this? People are more likely to learn if they understand the reason. Two is experience. What does the audience already know? It's easier to learn when you're building on existing knowledge. The third is application. How can the audience apply what they learn? People will forget what they learn in training if they don't have an opportunity to immediately apply it. Let's apply those same three tests to a sample project. I've put the…

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