02 · Management & institutional strengthening
Training-needs assessment and skills audits
Know exactly what your people cannot do yet, and what closing the gap involves.
Tell us what you needWe measure required against current capability, role by role, and turn the gaps into a prioritised, costed training plan you can defend to a board, a ministry or a donor.
- Led by
- Prof. Wisdom Gagakuma
- Typical effort
- 12 to 30 consultant-days for an organisation assessment
- Delivery
- Remote, and on site in West Africa
- Fees
- Organisation assessments: estimated USD 6,000–30,000
- Free tool
- Training needs assessment
- Contracting
- GKM Legacy Holdings, Maryland
What you receive.
Documents you can use, each with its method and sources attached.
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See a demonstration of the output: Specimen · Training-needs assessment & skills audits
Competency map
By role family, built on your organogram and job descriptions.
Skills-gap matrix
Required against current, weighted by importance and headcount.
Skills-gap report
Findings with an evidence trail back to every survey item and interview.
Costed training plan
Formats, sequence and cost estimates, prioritised by the gap scores, with assumptions stated.
Curriculum outline
For the top priorities, ready for a provider or your own trainers.
Validation workshop
With your leadership, before anything is final.
Who commissions this, and when.
Buyers and moments where this work pays for itself, and where it does not.
Who it is for
- Ministries, sector bodies and TVET agencies
- Donor-funded programmes that need a capacity baseline
- Banks, utilities and large employers
- Training providers designing a curriculum
When to call us
- Before a training budget is set
- When a new mandate, system or law changes the work
- When a funder asks for a capacity baseline
- After a restructure or a merger
When it is not the answer
If the gap is a broken process, a missing tool or an incentive problem, training will not fix it. We will tell you so, and point you to the right service instead.
Led byProf. Wisdom Gagakuma
- Contracting
- GKM Legacy Holdings, Maryland
- Consultation
- from USD 150
Scope and fees.
Fees are agreed in writing before work begins. Estimates are shown as estimates.
What we need from you
- Organogram and job descriptions
- Headcount by role
- Access to staff for the survey and interviews
- Your strategy or mandate documents
Not included unless agreed
- Fieldwork travel and enumerators are costed separately
- Ratings never drive hiring, firing or promotion decisions
- Respondents stay anonymous in reporting
How the work runs.
Each stage ends in something you review before the next begins.
Stage 1 of 5
Mandate
Agree the decision the assessment must inform, the roles in scope and the timeline.
Review pointSigned scope note: the decision, the units in scope and the timeline.
Stage 2 of 5
Diagnostic
Survey instrument, interviews, document review, self and manager ratings.
Review pointDiagnostic instruments signed off.
Stage 3 of 5
Options
Gap matrix, priority scoring and training options with formats, sequence and costs.
Review pointOptions paper reviewed with leadership.
Stage 4 of 5
Validation
Leadership validation workshop on the findings and the plan.
Review pointValidation workshop held and comments recorded.
Stage 5 of 5
Implementation
Final report, data files and plan, handed over with the method.
Review pointWritten acceptance and a handover of files and method.
Documented experience.
Roles held by the principal who leads this work, each with its source.
- 2018PwC Ghana for COTVET: national skills audit in seven sectorsThe Professor served as Subject Matter Expert on PwC’s team: baseline research, the survey instrument, data validation and analysis, sector reports and stakeholder engagement.
- The Professor’s PRIN tenureDevelopment Bank of Ethiopia: competency mappingThe Professor served as principal consultant, through PRIN International, on competency mapping for the Development Bank of Ethiopia. The letter attributes training and development needs definition for more than 500 positions.
- 2004–2010GIMPA Consultancy Division: project and strategic managementThe Professor was a Senior Consultant at the Consultancy Division, developing modules and facilitating project- and strategic-management programmes for public and private clients, including AngloGold Ashanti.
Individual experience of our principals, before or outside GKM Strategic Advisory & AI. Not GKM contracts.
Questions buyers ask.
Anything else: ask in a brief.
How is this different from a training catalogue?
A catalogue starts from courses. We start from the work: what each role must be able to do, what people can do today, and which gaps cost you most. The training plan comes last.
Can you work with our existing competency framework?
Yes. If a framework exists we test it against the work and use it. If it does not, we build the competency map as part of the diagnostic.
Do you need to be on site?
Most of the diagnostic runs remotely. In Ghana and West Africa we work on site from Accra; elsewhere, travel is costed in advance and only where it adds evidence.
Where does AI come in?
In survey design support, coding open-ended responses and drafting. Every finding is reviewed by the Professor before it reaches you, and AI never changes a calculated score.
Related work
What needs to move forward?
Tell us the decision, the challenge or the opportunity. We reply with a scoped approach, a named principal and a fee before any work begins.
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