With Seema Nagrath Menon
CPLP®, COTU
Managing Director
CALM Worldwide
Center for Action in Learning Management
Your Brain
&
Learning Needs Assessment
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Agenda
• Housekeeping notes
• Session starts
• Q&A
• End of webinar
Housekeeping
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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 qualified
COTU-BPS (Level A & B) from Cambridge University, she has been working
internationally in the fields of leadership development, learning strategy and
instructional 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 the
CPLP 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 have
a big hippocampus
linked to navigating
the complex layout
of London.
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.
Organizational
Needs
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Performance
Needs
Performer
Needs
Findings &
Recommendations
Potential Solutions
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“We Need Training!”
✓ Organizational goals
Organizational
Needs
✓ Gaps between current and desired performance
✓ Causes for performance gaps
Performance
Needs
Potential
Solutions
✓ 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?
Organizational
Analysis
Performance
Analysis
Performer
Analysis
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
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