Training Needs Analysis
Every capability in Salalem, in one review.
Training Needs Analysis (TNA) is what ties Salalem together. It reads what your courses, assessments, compliance programs, surveys, and knowledge searches already record. Your team decides what needs learning, clearer guidance, or another owner’s attention, and each decision goes to the part of Salalem that carries it out.
Every capability also works on its own. Connect more of your work through TNA as your practice develops.
One platform
The rest of Salalem feeds it and acts on it.
Each capability works on its own, with no needs review required. Connected, each one either supplies evidence to Training Needs Analysis or carries out a decision recorded there. The question of what your people need next is answered from the whole platform, and the answer goes back into it.
What feeds it
- Role Readiness Role requirements that are unmet, or not yet connected to any learning, with the number of people affected.
- Assessments & Proctoring Pass results, and which questions a role keeps getting wrong, once those questions are linked to a skill and enough people have answered.
- Salalem Compliance Packs Required training and its deadlines, expiring certifications, and pack obligations no role requirement covers yet.
- Surveys & Course Evaluations The anonymous learner pulse, the manager and sponsor ranking, and course evaluations.
- Knowledge Base Searches that found no answer, shown only once enough people have run them.
- Learner Experience What learners request from the catalog.
- Integrations When your HR system records a joiner or a role change, that person gets their own item, listing the requirements of the new role.
What acts on its decisions
- Learning Journeys A train decision becomes a program for the people the need is about, or links an existing program that already covers it.
- Knowledge Base A knowledge fix points the need at an article or policy in the library, and is marked done when the update is made.
- Salalem AI Drafts the reasoning and a suggested decision when asked. A person accepts it, changes it, or writes their own; nothing is recorded automatically.
- Learner Experience The program reaches its audience in the learner app. When a formal cycle closes, managers who ranked their team's needs are told what was decided.
- Salalem Compliance Packs Decisions, and whether their follow-up is finished, can be exported in your downloadable pack of proof as a chapter of their own.
The connected workflow
From evidence to a response you can explain.
TNA connects the work across Salalem: what you know, what deserves attention, what you decide, and how you respond.
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Evidence
Bring together supported records and input, with their sources and audiences visible.
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Needs
Review priorities, deadlines, and where the sources agree or disagree.
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Decisions
A person chooses a response and records the reason behind it.
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Responses
Connect learning, a knowledge fix, or an action owned outside L&D.
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Review
Read later evidence alongside the earlier decision and decide what comes next.
A formal review keeps a fixed record of what was decided and why. Later reviews can revisit the reasoning without rewriting that record.
A worked example
Does this need another course?
In this fictional example, complaint-handling training is nearly complete, yet people still ask for help. The evidence gives a reviewer a reason to investigate before assigning another course.
Needs review
Retail banking, third quarter
Relationship manager48 people
Customer due diligence
P1- Requirements met
- 38%
- Training due in
- 61 days
- Asked for it
- 23
Sources agreeDecision TrainComplaint handling
P2- Requirements met
- 92%
- Training due in
- None
- Asked for it
- 41
Sources disagreeDecision Not a training problemDigital onboarding tools
P3- Requirements met
- 64%
- Training due in
- None
- Asked for it
- 9
Sources agreeDecision Awaiting decision
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Evidence you can inspect
See the source and the people behind a signal. Check what it supports before deciding what to do.
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A decision someone owns
Record the response and its reason. AI can help draft a suggestion; a person makes the decision.
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A record you can return to
Follow the linked response and return to earlier decisions when reviewing later evidence. Completed training alone does not prove a business result.
Connected evidence
Use more of what you already know.
Learning records answer one question. Feedback, deadlines, and requests add others. TNA gives your team the context to read them together.
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What people have completed
Role Readiness compares passed learning with your role requirements. Unmet requirements connected to learning create ongoing needs, with the affected headcount and completion evidence. Requirements without connected learning need setup first.
Role Readiness · Courses · Assessments · External learning
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What needs to be completed
Bring required training, upcoming renewal dates, and expiring certifications into the same prioritization conversation.
Role requirements · Compliance · Certifications
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What people are looking for
Look at learning requests and unanswered knowledge searches. Persistent demand can point to a need for clearer guidance as well as learning.
Catalog requests · Knowledge gaps
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What people are telling you
Read manager priorities, learner input, and course evaluations alongside recorded activity. Anonymous responses are shown only in aggregate, and only once enough people have answered.
Manager input · Surveys · Evaluations
A source shows up only when it is connected, you have access to it, and it has enough responses to report. A source that shows nothing does not mean there is no need.
Five possible decisions
Choose the response that fits.
Give every need a considered response, with a reason and a record of what happened next.
AI may help draft the reasoning. Your team records the decision and controls what is published or assigned.
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Train
Build or extend a learning program, then review and publish it for the intended audience.
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Already covered
Link the program that already addresses the need instead of creating duplicate learning.
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Defer
Record why the need can wait, so it remains part of the next review.
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Knowledge fix
Connect the need to a knowledge article or policy update and record the follow-through.
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Not a training problem
Record that the response belongs outside training, name an owner, and track the action. Conflicting evidence prompts investigation; it does not diagnose the cause.
Questions before you begin
Do we have to use TNA to use the other features?
No. Courses, programs, assessments, surveys, compliance, and knowledge management have standalone workflows. Use the capabilities you need, then connect more of your work through TNA. Feature access follows your plan and permissions.
Do we need a skills framework before we start?
No. Topic questionnaires and supported sources such as learning requests, knowledge gaps, and required training can support TNA without a skills framework. Role Readiness uses your own framework, role requirements, and connected learning. Source access and reporting thresholds still apply; we’ll confirm the inputs available for your organization.
Is needs analysis only an annual exercise?
No. Needs update from your records without a formal review. Unmet role requirements linked to learning show up as needs. Run a formal review when you want a fixed record of what was decided.
Can we import our existing spreadsheet of needs?
Not today. Training Needs Analysis starts from records already in Salalem and from questionnaires.
Does AI decide what training to assign?
AI can draft a rationale and suggest a response. A person records the decision, reviews the content, and publishes learning through the normal workflow.
Start with a real learning question.
Bring a learning priority, a planning question, or a decision your team needs to make. We’ll walk through the relevant evidence, response, and follow-up for your organization.
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