The Individual Course Project is designed to provide you with real life, practical experience in conducting a training and Organizational Development needs assessment for a selected organization and in developing a training or intervention strategy to address the needs that have been identified.

The Individual Course Project must be comprehensive and follow the analytical stages below.

1. Select an organization to be studied.
2. Develop and conduct a needs assessment.
3. Analyze the data collected and identify training needs.
4. Develop a training or intervention strategy to address the needs.
5. Determine the training intervention cost and quantify expected results.
6. Develop an evaluation method.

Once the steps have been completed, a detailed paper outlining your processes, methodologies, results, and recommendations should be prepared. Although the length of the paper is not predetermined, a paper of 10–15 pages in length, double-spaced, is customarily necessary to cover the topic adequately. This does not include the title and reference pages.