Forget the Crystal Ball: Use This 4-Phase Approach To Forecast Your 2020 Training Needs

Who wants to be a training Nostradamus? If you’re smart, you do.

Great training professionals are always looking to the future. You have to keep an eye on everything: generational differences, new trends in training, technology, etc. — and that doesn’t even touch on all the things you have to watch within your own company. But the importance of forecasting is paramount. If you plan ahead for next year (and the next, and the next…), you’ll have more success securing the budgets and resources you’ll need. And by assessing the current state of affairs, you might even be able to use this year’s “leftover” resources to shore up next year’s needs. Great long-term learning strategies don’t just appear out of nowhere — they come from careful, cross-disciplinary study.