Development Planning
How do we put career development in the hands of our people?
Current and Career Development Planning are no longer 'nice-to-have'
benefits programs. High performing companies know that employee
development programs serve two critical goals:
- They create competitive advantage through providing better
qualified employees.
- They are one of the most reliable employee retention techniques,
especially for difficult to recruit and retain technical
employees.
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focus current development gives employees and managers
all of the tools to carry out high impact, cost effective development.
It starts with the creation of individual development plans. Employees
have inputs from their job description, their performance goals,
their career goals, and succession planning. Each of these creates
development priorities that are integrated into one manageable development
plan.
After selecting the development priorities, users access the integrated
Development Resource Guide to find training that addresses their
development needs. Typically, a variety of different ways of developing
a skill will be available, ranging from traditional classroom to
web-based or on-the-job-training (OJT).
focus assists employees with their longer-term Career Development
decisions. Employees can search for a job in the company that matches
their skills and/or their personal preferences. They can generate
a "Personal Development Priorities" report for any job
in the company in which they are interested. They can even request
multi-assessor reviews to get feedback from others on their fit
for any job.
focus Current & Career Planning Features & Benefits
- Powerful
Employees pull-in development priority data from a variety
of sources, and then choose where to focus.
- Comprehensive and Flexible
Development plans can be complete or brief. focus
allows the user to identify action steps, measures, required
resources, and make notes, or leave them blank.
- Results-based
focus always reminds employees that development is
related to a goal, either company or personal. focus helps
employees make and remember these links.
- Training transfer
One of the best ways to ensure the value of training is
to review and re-evaluate goals before and after the development
event. focus facilitates this process.
- Development Resource Guide (DRG)
focus ensures appropriate training selection and
reduces the time taken to find it.
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Data includes extra features like evaluations, testimonials and
accomplishments of previous users.
Typical Steps to Implement Current & Career Development
Planning
- Create current or career development planning as part
of performance planning or separately.
- Complete planned development. Revise as appropriate.
- Document results.
- Based on current priorities, create new development plan.
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