The role of Needs Analysis & Skills Planning

Anyone specializing in the skills planning role needs to be able to do several things:

• Be competent to establish training committees and other workplace structures required to undertake skills planning.

• Facilitate strategic planning processes to identify the skills needs within their organization.

• Conduct skills audits (or supervise audits) to identify the training requirements of the organization.

• Develop workplace skills plans that reflect both organisational and ETQA requirements, as well as report on these as per their SETA requirements.

• Manage the achievement of the workplace skills plans through outsourcing training effectively if required, as well as through assisting in the establishment of in-house training as required.

The content of the Needs Analysis & Skills Planning Module

The Needs Analysis & Skills Planning Module equips existing or prospective Skills Development Facilitators with the competences to do all the above.

Although the role differs widely across economic sectors and organisations, the roles outlined above are useful or necessary to many practitioners within small, medium and large organisations.

Participants in the programme review existing skills planning processes and requirements in their organisations as well as broader organisational strategic objectives;
and bring the results of this along to the 4 day contact training.

Here participants share their challenges with one another and work together in developing the systems and tools they will require to facilitate development of workplace skills plans.

"Learning sets" - study and work groups - can be set up during the 4 day session.

"Learning sets" require participants to work together when back in their organisations.

Each week of self-study and work experience, participants work together to achieve particular outputs.

These outputs cumulatively lead to the development and implementation of workplace skills planning objectives within their organisations.