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A Practical Guide to Training Needs Analysis, Performance Diagnosis and Building Capability That Works
Training can only fix problems training can fix. The book shows practitioners how to move from “What training do we need?” to “What performance is required, what is preventing it, and what will close the gap?”
Five practical PDFs drawn from Prelude’s consultancy method. One is a direct download; the others ask only for an email address.
Our flagship guide: what capability means, why training isn’t always the answer, the Golden Thread, the Capability Diagnostic, root-cause analysis, options appraisal and evaluation, with six practical worksheets.
Get free PDF: The Capability Readiness Playbook™
The ten-question self-assessment as a printable workbook, with the same scoring as the online version, evidence prompts, interpretation and an action plan.
Download PDF: Capability Readiness Review
65 practical checks across 13 areas for scoping, conducting and reviewing a DSAT-aligned TNA, each marked as JSP 822-related or Prelude guidance.
Get free PDF: Defence Training Needs Analysis Checklist
Twelve questions to test whether your learning and training governance is owned, evidenced and working, with risk identification and an improvement plan.
Get free PDF: Learning Governance Health Check
An eight-step toolkit for mapping workforce capability against what the organisation needs, with role matrices, gap and criticality analysis and an improvement plan.
Get free PDF: Workforce Capability AssessmentThese free consultancy resources are separate from the book companion toolkit, which provides the editable tools from Training Isn’t Always the Answer for readers of the book.
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Most failed "training" was never a training problem. The course did its job; the capability gap sat somewhere else — in unclear roles, weak governance, missing pathways or standards no one agreed on.
This is the idea behind everything I do: training is rarely the problem — capability is. Diagnosis has to come before prescription.
Read the manifesto →New to DSAT, TNA or capability frameworks? Start with the glossary — plain-English definitions of every term used across this site, each linking through to the article or service page that covers it properly.
Browse the glossary →What JSP 822 actually asks of you — without the acronym overload.
Read the article →How to run a TNA that finds the real gap and gives leaders evidence.
Read the article →Designing competency frameworks people actually use.
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What the military teaches about leaders who hold up when it counts.
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Building capability and pipelines under real budget pressure.
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Why so many LMS investments underdeliver — and how to get value.
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What drives completion and funding compliance.
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Making governance audit-ready and useful — not just for inspectors.
Read the article →Connecting learning investment to the outcomes leaders are measured on.
Read the article →Insight is useful. Applied insight changes outcomes. Let's talk about yours.