EASA Part 145 / Part 147 Instructor – Train the Trainer
Performing an Effective Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
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The following four central questions must be answered before you begin designing a training course:
Audience: Who is the target audience for a proposed training?
Current roles: What do members of this target audience presently do in their roles?
Knowledge gaps: What gaps exist between what these providers know how to do, and what they need to know to carry out their roles successfully?
Outcome: Will training help fill this gap?
The first step in building a training course is identifying the needs of the target participants.
A Need: A “need” refers to the gap between what is and what could or should be within a particular context, leading to strategies aimed at eliminating the gap between what is and should or could be.
Analysing what the training needs are is a vital prerequisite for any effective training programme. Simply throwing training at individuals may miss priority needs, or even cover areas that are not essential.
The TNA is a complex process, it does not involve just you as a trainer or Subject Matter Expert (SME) but the whole organisation, the regulatory bodies, the manufacturers and operators as a whole.
The Training Need Analysis is defined as the analysis of the target group against the competence definitions of their job to determine the precise objectives (knowledge, skills, attitudes) to be trained in order to carry out that job.
The training needs analysis must:
- Identify the gaps, what it is known now and what needs to be known
- Determine the objectives (performance, terminal and enabling)
- Justify and adapt course duration
- Define the mode of learning delivery
- Define the examination and assessment method
- Specify the training aids and resources required to satisfy the objectives
- Compile the course syllabus
- Provide the support/content of the training materials
AMC to point 3.1 (d) of Appendix II to Part 66 specifies what elements are required to be included/covered by the Training Needs Analysis.
“The TNA is a living process and should be reviewed/updated based on operation feedback, maintenance occurrences, airworthiness directives, major service bulletins impacting maintenance activities or requiring new competencies for mechanics, alert service bulletins, feedback from trainees or customer satisfaction, evolution of the maintenance documentation such as MRBs, MPDs, MMs, etc.
The frequency at which the TNA should be reviewed/updated is left to the discretion of the organisation conducting the course”. AMC of Appendix III to Part 66
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