Training Needs Assessment for a Growing Team

When a small Indian brand triples its headcount inside a year, training is almost always the last system anyone builds. New joiners learn by watching whoever sits closest, quality slips in ways nobody can name, and the founder's instinct is to book a motivational workshop for everybody. A training needs assessment reverses that logic: it finds out which specific skills are missing, in which roles, at what cost to the business, and only then decides what training is worth anyone's time.

The intern runs a full assessment for Bageecha Home, a fictional Jaipur home-decor brand that grew from 9 to 34 people in fourteen months. They write a twelve-competency dictionary in google-docs, run a staff skills survey through google-forms, build a skills matrix in google-sheets that scores every gap and ranks it by business impact, interview managers, observe two roles at work, and turn the findings into a quarterly training calendar designed in canva. They then build one training module end to end, complete with facilitator guide, participant deck, roleplay and a pre and post quiz.

The work covers the exact sequence a learning and development team follows, from needs analysis through prioritisation to module design and evaluation. The intern finishes able to defend why a training was chosen over the twelve that were not, which is a far stronger answer in an HR interview than a list of workshops attended, and leaves with a complete training kit a real small business could pick up and run.