With Seema Nagrath MenonCPLP®, COTU

Managing DirectorCALM Worldwide

Center for Action in Learning Management

Your Brain

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Learning Needs Assessment

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Agenda

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• Q&A

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Housekeeping

• You can type your questions throughout the session

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About The Speaker

Seema Nagrath Menon is an International Speaker, ATD Expert Facilitator,Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach and Senior Learning &Development Specialist based in Dubai.

As a Certified Professional in Learning & Performance (CPLP®) and a qualifiedCOTU-BPS (Level A & B) from Cambridge University, she has been workinginternationally in the fields of leadership development, learning strategy andinstructional design for over 18 years.

As an ATD approved facilitator and a Subject Matter Expert in the profession,Seema currently leads the Learning Needs Assessment Certificate and theCPLP Exam Prep courses for Informa in the region.

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Mind, Brain & Education (MBE)

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NeuroMyths

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Neuroplasticity

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London cabbies havea big hippocampuslinked to navigatingthe complex layout

of London.

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Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity - Clip

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Neuroscience

Learning Needs Assessment

Making Learning Stick

Optimising Learning Conditions

What is a Needs Assessment?

Needs assessment is the process of gathering data

to determine what individual performers need

in order for the organization to accomplish its stated goals.

OrganizationalNeeds

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PerformanceNeeds

PerformerNeeds

Findings & Recommendations

Potential Solutions

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“We Need Training!”

✓ Organizational goalsOrganizational

Needs

✓ Gaps between current and desired performance

✓ Causes for performance gaps

PerformanceNeeds

PotentialSolutions

✓ Learning solutions & other recommendations

Findings & Recommendations

✓ Framing data and presenting results

Performer Needs✓ What do they already know

✓ What are their learning preferences

Learning Needs Assessment Process

What Type of Information Are You Seeking?

OrganizationalAnalysis

PerformanceAnalysis

PerformerAnalysis

What does the organization want

to achieve?Who needs to do

what for the organization to reach its goals?

What are they not doing that needs to be addressed?

Why aren’t they doing what we

need them to do?

Who are the performers? What

do they already know?

Brain-Friendly Learning

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Phase-Locking: Attention & Focus Scaffolding

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FACT: Attention sharpens focus – what the learner focuses upon is encoded.

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Phase-Locking: Attention & Focus

Phase-Locking and Focused Attention We lock in on something and we're tuned to it

Richard Davidson at University of Wisconsin

Attention Hooks

✓ Personal Relevance

✓ Emotional appeal

✓ Novel stimuli

✓ Hands on experience

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FACT: Learning is a constructivist process – we scaffold new concepts onto existing models.

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Scaffolding

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Network of Associations

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Memorise a list of Important Dates in Mongolian History

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✓Examples

✓Metaphors

✓Analogies

✓Stories

✓Case studies

Personal Relevance

Application

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Learning Needs Assessment facilitates Brain-Friendly Learning

Phase-Locking: Attention & Focus Scaffolding

Optimising Learning Conditions Making Learning Stick

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Do You Have Any Questions?

Learning Needs Assessment Certificate

Identify Individual And Organizational Performance Needs In Order To Develop The Most Effective Solutions

12 – 14 November 2017

Sheraton Hotel, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai, UAE

Take the time to complete post-webinar survey that will pop up at the end