Staff in Training
Advantages of a staff Development Plan
Investing in employee development plan is a classic example of a win-win situation.
Your plan can pay off for both your firm/organization/company/institute/ business/ corporate/Academy, etc. and your employees in a variety of ways:
- Help attract talented applicants
- Increase worker engagement and motivation
- Improve employee performance
- Increase your firm’s efficiency and profitability
- Nurture promotable employees
- Improve employee retention and satisfaction
- Help your firm plan for the future
Why run a training program?
For new staff
- It shows them that the organization is serious about what it does.
- It makes them feel that the organization is supportive of them.
- Having the proper training boosts their confidence.
- It enlists them as “regulars” in the organization.
- It shortens the time needed for them to become competent at their jobs.
- It reduces their need to ask other staff for advice or information.
- It greatly diminishes the chance that they’ll make mistakes that cost the organization in prestige, public relations, credibility, lawsuits, or money.
For veteran staff:
- It helps them to become continually more competent at what they do.
- It introduces them to the latest research and theory.
- It helps them to maintain interest in and enthusiasm for their work.
- It can expose them to other practitioners with different – and perhaps better – methods.
- It gives them one more reason to stay with the organization.
- It keeps the organization as a whole dynamic: thinking, growing, and changing.
- A dynamic organization is almost always a healthy and effective one.
When should you run a training program?
- Training for new staff should clearly be conducted as soon as possible after they’re hired. The ideal is that it be part of their orientation.
- Training for veteran staff should happen on a regular basis throughout the life of the organization.
How do you actually develop and run a training program?
Planning
- Follow general rules for planning a staff training program.
- Decide what areas your staff training should cover.
- Determine how much training your staff needs, and when it should happen.
- Methods
- Logistics
- Location
- Setup
- Materials
- Evaluation
What Are the Types of Personal and Professional Development Plans?
Depending on the needs and goals of your employees, there are various types of personal and professional development plans you can incorporate. Some of the most common include:
- Continuing Training and Education courses
- Increased Duties and Responsibilities
- Professional Organizations Training and Seminar Participation
What Are Examples of Professional Development Plans?
To supplement the types of personal and professional development plans above, let’s walk through a few examples in the workplace:
An employee with a Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) decides to pursue their Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) after three years of working in your payroll department. The employee’s goal is to advance in their role, make a bigger contribution to the company, and receive a higher salary. The organization offers compensation for the fees involved in the payroll certification course and exam.
An employee has been at the company for a few years and feels ready to develop their leadership skills. After conferring with their direct supervisor to find appropriate opportunities, the employee takes on a bigger share of the mentoring and coaching responsibilities in the team. The employee’s direct supervisor provides guidance and tips on mentoring during this time.
An employee who excels at both verbal and written communication takes on a project intended to help break down the walls between siloed departments. They’re given the task to identify the teams’ pain points and test out different strategies to help team members better collaborate.
An employee who is part of a fairly new department at your organization attends local conferences and workshops. During the events, the employee learns about new strategies to incorporate into their role and ideas to drive the new department forward. They’re also able to speak with other professionals in their field who offer insights on how to successfully build teams and achieve meaningful results.
What Are Key Elements of Every Individual Development Plan?
Before we dive into creating an employee development plan, let’s review the three key elements every individual development plan should include. These components are intended to give each plan the right foundation and balance to satisfy everyone’s needs.
Business/Organizational needs
Employee competence
Employee passion
How Do You Create an Employee Development Plan?
Above all, staying focused on the three key elements above will help you and your employee design a holistic employee development plan that motivates them to succeed. They’ll find fulfillment in their roles and feel more inclined to stick around for the long haul.
What Are the Steps Involved in Designing an Employee Development Plan?
If launching an employee development plan seems overwhelming at first, we’ve got it broken down so you can take it one step at a time:
Step 1: Size up Your Needs
Step 2: Focus on the Individual
Step 3: Offer the Right Opportunities
Here are some Staff in Training plans ideas, resources offered by TILTI.
- know yourself and your strength
- Know your team
- Practical exercise on bridge the gap
- Organizational vision, mission, team spirit, priorities, focus and intelligent objectives.
- Defining the target, develop strategies,
- Communicate Effectively,
- Learning Development and Improvement,
- Practical impact, Action Plan and victory for all strategies.
- Implementation of your goal, Execute successfully
- Boost your sales, Marketing strategy
- Build life-long Relationships,
- Problem solving
- Negotiation skills.
- Practical troubleshooting tests,
- Pass the test,
- Practice empathy and well-being.
- Appraisal process,
- Motivation and transformation in the situation.
- Balanced dashboard:
financial, customer service, internal process, accountability, fairness,
transparency and independence to have a pleasurable experience during your service.
- The power of imagination,
- Innovation
EMPHASIS
- Durability.
- Agility.
- Flexibility.
- Efficiency.
- Teamwork.
- Creating a culture of collective success.
- Setting formal expectations.
- Testing your success.
- Develop a feedback mechanism
- Communicate Trust and Belief in Succession
Exercises
- Increase worker engagement and motivation
- Improve employee performance
- Increase firm’s efficiency and profitability
- Nurture promotable employees
- Improve employee retention and satisfaction
- Firm plan for the future
- structure a plan and seek support from decision-makers.
- Remember your stage.
- Identify your needs.
- Strive to have it all.
- Turn Good Employees into Great Leaders
- Recognize potential vs. readiness
- Create a plan for before, during and after
OTHER TRAINING
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Cross-Training
- Job Rotation
- Stretch Assignments
- Job enlargement and enrichment
- Job Shadowing
- Cross Cultural communication
- Succession Planning
- Individual Development Plan
- The Right Opportunities
- Higher employee engagement
- More profits
- DISC Test
- Gift Test
To get bigger in the future, you’ve got to be bigger in the present.
