Strategic Employee Development Guide Manager S Guide

Align employee goals with organizational objectives! Development planning can be tough. You want to ensure that employees are satisfied, but you also want to confirm that they're contributing to the organization. How can you balance these objectives?For many organizations, development planning is haphazard and has little business rationale. This unique guide is the first to tie employee learning objectives to business goals. The Manager's Guide shows you and your managers how to establish a development plan with your employees. The Employee Workbook, when used in conjunction with the Manager's Guide, provides your employees with worksheets and helpful hints that they will use throughout the year to track and measure their development. The Group Facilitation Guide enables you to conduct a development workshop with large groups, or to conduct an orientation session that would precede organization-wide application of these tools. When you present Strategic Employee Development to your managers and supervisors, they'll discover the answers to their performance review questions and learn how to make this powerful package work for them. You'll use this systematic approach to stimulate increased organizational productivity and profitability. Employees will thrive on the real-life, logically structured development framework. No more worrying about what to say and what to do--harness the power of performance appraisal! Use this comprehensive system to: Sharpen the focus of employee development Provide a basis for employee evaluation Contribute to employee satisfaction . . . and much more!

As managers, we are expected to hold career and professional development discussions with our employees, although many of us feel ill-equipped for these conversations. Are you unsure how or where to begin with your employees’ development? Perhaps you want to brush up on how to create more meaningful development plans? This TD at Work is a primer intended for managers, human resources professionals, and others. It is a practical, go-to guide that will explain: · why career development is important to the organization, employee, and manager · who is responsible for specific aspects of the employee development process · how to facilitate the employee development process · the characteristics of a strong individual development process · how to lead successful development discussions

Align employee goals with organizational objectives! Development planning can be tough. You want to ensure that employees are satisfied, but you also want to confirm that they're contributing to the organization. How can you balance these objectives?For many organizations, development planning is haphazard and has little business rationale. This unique guide is the first to tie employee learning objectives to business goals. The Manager's Guide shows you and your managers how to establish a development plan with your employees. The Employee Workbook, when used in conjunction with the Manager's Guide, provides your employees with worksheets and helpful hints that they will use throughout the year to track and measure their development. The Group Facilitation Guide enables you to conduct a development workshop with large groups, or to conduct an orientation session that would precede organization-wide application of these tools. When you present Strategic Employee Development to your managers and supervisors, they'll discover the answers to their performance review questions and learn how to make this powerful package work for them. You'll use this systematic approach to stimulate increased organizational productivity and profitability. Employees will thrive on the real-life, logically structured development framework. No more worrying about what to say and what to do--harness the power of performance appraisal! Use this comprehensive system to: Sharpen the focus of employee development Provide a basis for employee evaluation Contribute to employee satisfaction . . . and much more!

Every company wants and needs productive, skilled employees. Investing in a work force that can help your business keep pace with the competition may be the most important strategic decision you make. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Performance Management clearly spells out the specific steps a manager can take to ensure improved performance organization-wide. It presents a systems approach to performance enhancement and includes tools for determining current performance levels and establishing desired performance levels. This handy reference will show managers how to: Analyze the performance of individual employees Pinpoint the gaps in performance and determine what's causing those gaps Develop practical strategies for maximizing performance Get the most from your training dollars and ensure that training is successful Give recognition of an employee's achievements Evaluate whether or not employees are using what they've learned Contents Identifying Employee Development Needs A Systems Approach to Performance Enhancement Fostering a Learning Organization Analyzing Employee Performance Identifying Causes of Performance Gaps Selecting Non-Training and Training Strategies Managing Training Resources Promoting Training Transfer Evaluating Training Outcomes

Align your L&D strategy to the overall business strategy to benefit employees and the organization as a whole

Written from a practitioner viewpoint with case studies and examples from a wide variety of industries, this is a practical text for Learning & Development and Human Resource practitioners, providing an in-depth treatment of all the aspects of people development within today's organizations. Readers will want more than just the theory - they want to know how to apply it as an internal consultant and what the potential pitfalls can be. Most importantly, they want practical strategies for introducing and implementing new management development practices. The text shows how to apply new approaches to old problems and provide new ways of creating high performance within an organization. This book offers an in-depth explanation of the key principles, problems to be addressed and strategies for success in developing effective managers and leaders. The style is both pragmatic and tactical, based on academic theory but grounded in the day to day reality of what is possible in today's organizations.