The Individual Course Project must be comprehensive and follow the analytical stages below. Select an organization to be studied. Develop and conduct a needs assessment. Analyze the data collected and identify training needs. Develop a training or intervention strategy to address the needs. Determine the training intervention cost and quantify expected results. Develop an evaluation method. Once the steps have been completed, a detailed paper outlining your processes, methodologies, results, and recommendations should be prepared. Although the length of the paper is not predetermined, a paper of 10–15 pages in length, double-spaced, is customarily necessary to cover the topic adequately. This does not include the title and reference pages. APA Style # 6 is the style sheet to be used for all written papers in this course.   Note: There is an excellent guide online called Human Capital: A Guide for Assessing Strategic Training and Development Efforts in the Federal Government published by the United States General Accounting Office. Although this relates to the government and not the private sector, it contains excellent information that can be applied anywhere. Milestones: Project Phases—In Detail Part 1: Select an Organization to Be Studied There are a number of ways in which an organization can be selected. One option is to look outside your organization for companies that would be interested in participating in the project. Another is to volunteer your own organization, or if you are not currently employed, use a church, school, club, or other organization. Once your organization has been selected, you will need to learn a great deal about it. It is essential for you to understand the organization's business, goals, objectives, and mission in order to complete this project successfully. Individual Course Project Proposal - Outline (80-points) due Week 1   The OrganizationSelect an organization to be used for this Individual Course Project10-pointsHistory / BackgroundDescribe the history / background of the organization10-pointsCurrent BusinessDescribe their current business. What do they do? Why?10-pointsM, G & ODescribe the mission, goals and objectives of the business10-pointsCurrent T & D DepartmentDescribe in as much detail as you can find the current Training and Employee Development department. What do they do? Why? Do they seem proactive? Or, mostly reactive? Why? How can you tell?20-pointsProblemsLook at the entire organization. What challenges / problems are they experiencing? Why? Does it seem like they have a clear path forward using a training and development intervention? Why? How can you tell?10-pointsYour Reason(s)Why do you wish to research, study, and write about this company from a Training and Development perspective?10-points     Total Points80-points Submit the required information on your selected organization as a Week One assignment.  This week one assignment is worth 80-points.  Please note t.

1. The Individual Course Project must be comprehensive and
follow the analytical stages below.
Select an organization to be studied.
Develop and conduct a needs assessment.
Analyze the data collected and identify training needs.
Develop a training or intervention strategy to address the needs.
Determine the training intervention cost and quantify expected
results.
Develop an evaluation method.
Once the steps have been completed, a detailed paper outlining
your processes, methodologies, results, and recommendations
should be prepared. Although the length of the paper is not
predetermined, a paper of 10–15 pages in length, double-spaced,
is customarily necessary to cover the topic adequately. This
does not include the title and reference pages.
APA Style # 6 is the style sheet to be used for all written papers
in this course.
Note: There is an excellent guide
online
called
Human Capital: A Guide for Assessing Strategic Training and
Development Efforts in the Federal Government

2. published by the United States General Accounting Office.
Although this relates to the government and not the private
sector, it contains excellent information that can be applied
anywhere.
Milestones: Project Phases—In Detail
Part 1: Select an Organization to Be Studied
There are a number of ways in which an organization can be
selected. One option is to look outside your organization for
companies that would be interested in participating in the
project. Another is to volunteer your own organization, or if
you are not currently employed, use a church, school, club, or
other organization.
Once your organization has been selected, you will need to
learn a great deal about it. It is essential for you to understand
the organization's business, goals, objectives, and mission in
order
to complete this project successfully.
Individual Course Project Proposal - Outline (80-points) due
Week 1
The OrganizationSelect an organization to be used for this
Individual Course Project10-pointsHistory /
BackgroundDescribe the history / background of the
organization10-pointsCurrent BusinessDescribe their current
business. What do they do? Why?10-pointsM, G & ODescribe
the mission, goals and objectives of the business10-
pointsCurrent T & D DepartmentDescribe in as much detail as
you can find the current Training and Employee Development
department. What do they do? Why? Do they seem proactive?
Or, mostly reactive? Why? How can you tell?20-
pointsProblemsLook at the entire organization. What challenges
/ problems are they experiencing? Why? Does it seem like they

3. have a clear path forward using a training and development
intervention? Why? How can you tell?10-pointsYour
Reason(s)Why do you wish to research, study, and write about
this company from a Training and Development perspective?10-
points
Total Points80-points
Submit the required information on your selected organization
as a Week One assignment. This week one assignment is worth
80-points. Please note that you will also be submitting a
written report for this project in Week 5. The Week 5 Paper
assignment is worth 100-points.
Part 2: Conduct a Needs Assessment
Training and development processes begin with a needs
assessment. Given the economic pressures that businesses face
today, it is imperative that those needs be connected to specific
organizational performance issues. There are three different
forms of analysis you will need to complete.
Organizational analysis
involves determining the appropriateness of training given the
organization's business strategy, its resources available for
training, and support by managers and peers for training
activities.
Person analysis
involves (1) determining whether performance deficiencies
result from a lack of knowledge, skill, or ability (a training
issue) or from a motivational or work-design problem; (2)
identifying who needs training; and (3) determining employees’
readiness for training.
Task analysis

4. identifies the important tasks and knowledge, skill, and
behaviors that need to be emphasized in training for employees
to complete their tasks.
Hints for a Successful Needs Assessment
As you conduct your needs assessment, you may want to
consider four potential sources of information that may help you
in your analysis. Information such as employee turnover
analysis, incident reports, long-range production goals,
employee satisfaction studies, and physical plant layout can tell
us a lot. Examples of other documents you may wish to consider
include the following.
Business documents:
Key business documents can be used to determine areas of poor
performance and developmental needs. Such documents may
include
unit productivity reports;
customer satisfaction
surveys
;
communication
survey
reports; and
competitive analysis reports.