Training Needs Analysis Skills – Course Materials For Trainers (Save 20–30 Hours Prep).

We saw that many organizations claimed training was important — but few really knew what kind of training their people needed.

Without a proper training needs assessment, programs ended up misaligned, irrelevant, or wasted.

So we created the Training Needs Analysis Skills course: a ready-to-deliver, editable program that helps trainers and HR teams identify the real needs, design appropriate learning interventions, and ensure learning investments deliver real value — all without trainers needing to spend 20–30 hours building the analysis tools from scratch.

This pack gives you everything you need: editable slides, participant workbook, trainer guide, data-collection tools, analysis templates and follow-through tools.

You’ll walk into your training courses fully prepared, confident, and ready to lead the critical first step in learning design — the needs assessment.

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The Brands Our Material Support.

What This Training Material Makes Possible.

For participants

They’ll learn how to:

Define what “needs” really means in a training context — how current performance compares to desired performance.

Collect data effectively from stakeholders, surveys, observation and interviews — so decisions are grounded in evidence, not just assumptions.

Use a structured process: define need → analyse causes → design response → evaluate impact.

Expect sharper alignment of training with business objectives, smarter use of resource, and higher ROI on learning initiatives.

For you, the trainer

You’ll deliver a professional, high-impact program without the heavy lift of building everything in advance.

You can customize the materials to your audience’s context, brand the slides to your organisation, adjust examples to fit real-world cases — and focus your energy on facilitation, discussion & insight rather than slide creation.

For the organization

You’ll embed a capability that ensures training addresses the right gaps, not just the obvious ones. When training is aligned with actual need, organisations reduce wasted investment, boost performance and strengthen capability.

What’s Included In The Pack.

Editable Slide Deck

A fully customizable presentation, ready to deliver or tweak. Includes facilitation notes, frameworks for needs analysis, data-collection guides, gap-analysis models and structured flow for the session.

Trainer Guide

A detailed manual covering session timing, discussion prompts, activity setups (including data-collection workshops), adaptation options for in-person, virtual or hybrid delivery.

Participant Workbook

Editable workbook pages for participants to use during the session and for follow-up.

Activities & Scenarios

We encourage you to add company-specific and hands-on exercises such as stakeholder interview role-play, needs-data visualisation tasks, gap-analysis workshops, priority setting and mapping training responses to organisational objectives.

Follow-Through Tools

If required add extra action-planning templates, follow-up evaluation prompts and reflection worksheets designed so the learning becomes part of your training-design practice — not just a one-off session.

Designed For Any Delivery Format.

Whether you’re delivering in-person, online, hybrid or with a blended approach, this program adapts.

Guidance is included for breakout sessions, virtual white-boards, remote data-collection facilitation and post-session follow-through.

Why Trainers Choose Our Pack.

You save 20–30 hours of prep because the program is ready to deploy.

It’s fully editable and flexible — you can customize branding, adjust examples, tailor modules to your audience’s role and context.

It’s simple to deliver — you focus on facilitation, insight and behaviour change rather than content building.

It supports organisations of all sizes — from internal L&D teams to external consultants who help clients uncover training needs.

Ideal For.

Trainers and facilitators delivering workshops on training-needs analysis, learning-audit, and learning-strategy alignment.

L&D teams implementing internal programs to ensure their training investment is focused, aligned and outcome-oriented.

Coaches or consultants working with organisations on identifying learning gaps, designing learning strategy and linking learning to performance.

HR, talent-development or operations professionals seeking a ready-to-use training solution to build needs-analysis capability and ensure training addresses strategic performance gaps.

How You’ll Use This Pack.

Purchase and download instantly.

Open the slide deck, workbook and trainer guide in your software of choice.

Customize branding, tweak examples, adjust module sequence to your audience’s context.

Deliver with confidence — guide your participants through the needs-analysis process—and watch better training plans, stronger alignment and higher impact emerge.

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Success Stories.

Trusted by organizations in over 70 countries, Oak Innovation has spent 30+ years shaping the future of workplace learning through proven, ready-to-deliver leadership development training kits.

Our clients — from small teams to global brands — use Oak Innovation resources to develop leaders, foster learning, and achieve measurable growth.

Straightforward, relevant, and easy to apply to everyday workplace challenges — that’s why Mathangani Pristine of Management Solutions Ltd. keeps using Oak Innovation.

Oak Innovation’s courses helped Andre Koen of Anoka County, MN upskill his entire team quickly and effectively. The results speak for themselves.

Steve Fraundorfer of ProEmpower loves that everything is comprehensive, transparent, and ready to roll out — Oak Innovation’s start-to-finish training program is precisely what every facilitator needs.

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