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Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• About The On A Shoestring Series
• Dedication and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART 1: BUILD
• 1: Building the Strategy
• ON THE CHEAP: Needs Assessment Professional Community
• Be Sure You're Solving the Right Problem
• TOOL: Needs Assessment Case Study
• The Needs Assessment Process
• TIME SAVER: Future Debrief
• A Strategic Approach
• Figure 1-1. Needs Assessment Methodology: Build the Strategy
• 10 Needs Assessment Strategy Components
• Table 1-1. Categorizing the 10 Components of a Needs Assessment Strategy
• TOOL: Needs Assessment Strategy Worksheet
• Identifying the Problem
• TIME SAVER: Cut to the Chase and Ask Five Whys

• Identifying Stakeholders
• Identifying the Methodology: Start With Research Questions
• TIME SAVER: Making Research Questions Relevant
• Identifying the Project Scope
• Figure 1-2. Needs Assessment Project Scope: Milestones
• Identifying Strategies for Sharing Resultsand Recommendations
• Identifying Constraints: Limitations and Delimitations
• Table 1-2. Prompts to Uncover Limitations and Delimitations
• Identifying Success Metrics for Recommendations
• Identifying Value Measures for the Needs Assessment
• DEEPER DIVE: Needs Assessment Strategy and Best Practices
• A Shoestring Summary
• 2: Building the Case: Data Collection
• Figure 2-1. Needs Assessment Methodology: Build the Case
• Data Collection and Data Analysis: Two Sides of the Same Coin
• Data Sources
• TOOL: Data Collection Plan Template
• How Much Data Do You Need?
• TIME SAVER: Concurrent Data Collection and Analysis
• Data Collection Methods
• Figure 2-2. Five Most Common Data Collection Methods
• Documents and Work Products
• Table 2-1. Best Practices for Documents and Work Products
• Surveys
• ON THE CHEAP: Free Sample Size Calculator
• Table 2-2. Best Practices for Surveys
• Interviews
• Table 2-3. Best Practices for Interviews
• Focus Groups
• Table 2-4. Best Practices for Focus Groups
• Observations
• Table 2-5. Best Practices for Observations
• Tips for Writing Survey, Interview, and Focus Group Questions
• Which Data Collection Method Is Best?
• Figure 2-3. Decision Tree for Choosing a Data Collection Method
• DEEPER DIVE: Data Collection Methods
• What to Investigate: Categories of Insight
• Contextual Discovery
• Organizational Discovery
• Operational Discovery
• Individual Discovery
• TOOL: Insights Exercise
• If Opportunity Presents
• A Shoestring Summary
• 3: Building the Case: Data Analysis
• TOOL: Data Analysis Plan Template
• DEEPER DIVE: Analytics for Talent Development Professionals
• Make the Data Make Sense: The Data Analysis Process
• Figure 3-1. The Data Analysis Process
• Organize the Data
• TOOL: Dataset Summary Template
• Interpret the Data
• Compare the Data
• TIME SAVER: Triangulate on a Shoestring
• Make Meaning From the Data

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Author/Creator:

Jones, Kelly L. (Researcher) , author

Contributors:

Lumsden, Jody

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Needs assessment on a shoestring [by Jones, K.L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Needs Assessment on a Shoestring [by Jones, K.] (La Vergne : Association for Talent Development,c2023 — ISBN 9781953946935)

Related Series:

On a Shoestring

Subjects:

Needs assessment

Organizational learning

Strategic planning

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HF5549.5.T7 J65 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781957157085 (electronic book)
1957157089 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1402818322

Other Control Numbers:

EBC7294764 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305761595