New employees go through training and orientation. But what about the employees that have been on your team for years who also need the chance to improve and grow? Training design is developing new training and educational courses and lessons for your existing employees. It roots out the gaps in training and fills them in with new material for better performance. It also allows your team to grow their skills rather than becoming static in their roles.  Assess Needs and Training Objectives Training design allows a company to assess its needs and present solutions in clearly defined goals. When training current employees to learn a new task, you first have to understand what they already know and how they could improve. Needs can come from an overall organizational and strategic point of view, from departments or teams or from an individual evaluation. Assessing the needs of the organization can determine the training objectives. These objectives will become the building blocks of yo...