Before designing a workshop, I want to understand what is actually happening:

Who is experiencing the problem?
What are managers currently doing?
What do employees experience?
Where are the capability gaps?
And what is preventing better performance?

I’ve created a Stakeholder Interview Guide as part of my L&D portfolio to demonstrate how I would approach this discovery stage.

The guide structures conversations with:
→ Senior Leaders
→ HR Business Partners
→ Managers
→ Employees
→ People Analytics / HR

It includes tailored questions for each stakeholder group, cross-stakeholder comparison and a framework for turning the findings into a Learning Needs Analysis.

Because good L&D starts with understanding the problem — not choosing the training solution.