Overview:
Today’s work environment has put a high priority on bright, talented, enthusiastic employees. However, these are the very employees who are frequently recruited away by headhunters and other organizations. So, how do you keep your best employees? By working with them to create a meaningful career development plan—and following through on it. Career planning and development is geared for supervisors and managers who seek to assist employees in their development. However, one of the best ways for supervisors to understand how the process works is to experience it for themselves. In this program you will do all the activities and assessments first-hand; giving you all the skills and tools to apply these to your employees after the program.
Audience:
HR Professionals
Prerequisites
None.
Course duration:
Half day
Course outline:
1. Internal Evaluation/Reflection
- Exploring your interests
- Examining your abilities
- Values: Uncovering your uniqueness
- Aligning personal and organizational purpose
- Understanding the purpose of the organization
- Understanding how your job fits the purpose
- Prioritizing performance goals for alignment with purpose
2. External Evaluation: Coaching
- Assessing critical skills and performance gaps
- Task management (time management, handling work and assignments, delegation)
- Communicating and interacting with others (listening, meeting management, presentations, conflict resolution, negotiation)
- Problem solving and decision making
- Methods of assessment
- Coaching issues
- How to present the feedback so that it facilitates acceptance and understanding
- How to balance confrontation with support
- How to best balance quantitative and qualitative data
- How to pace the feedback so that the employee can assimilate all of the issues and still focus on the most important ones.
- How to give feedback to overestimators and underestimators
- Motivation
- Intrinsic versus extrinsic
- Flow: meaningfulness, impact, choice, competence
- Incentives and rewards
- Removing demotivators
3. Synthesizing external and internal: IDP (Individual Development Plan)
- Building growth and opportunity plans
- Identifying development needs
- Exploring areas of interest
- Making an action plan
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