Getting to the Real Training Requirements to Deliver Business Success 2011

How quickly are you able to determine training requirements? Do executive sponsors provide you the information you need to design an effective program? Are you able to move beyond learning objectives to uncover why a training program is critical to the business so you can make valued recommendations?

By refining your critical questioning skills you can ensure you ask the right people the right questions to elicit key information in concise conversations. Effective requirements gathering builds credibility with executive sponsors, ensures you`re focused on the right program, and supports specific business objectives, but how does that work?

Your efficient and thorough requirements gathering means less time wasted for everyone and results in fewer misunderstandings, faster development, and greater training success overall. In this session you will:

• Discover the 6 secrets to successful requirements gathering.
• Identify the 4 questions to ask to uncover hidden requirements your sponsor may not know they have.
• Watch the speaker model an effective requirements gathering meeting using a member of the audience.
• Practice new requirements gathering techniques on your own and determine which ones will work for you.
• Examine what feels comfortable, and what does not, then make your own adjustments with coaching from the speaker.

You`ll walk away with skills you can apply immediately in more effectively gathering training requirements and the business justification behind them.