Commit

Develop employees to achieve organization's aims and objectives

• Developing employees is a powerful way of achieving success because employees are our greatest asset. By getting the very best out of them, our organization can achieve its goals and improve its performance.

But if we are going to reap the rewards of effective development, you need to be committed to it, for it will take planning time, resources and skillss to put it all into practice.

How can we achieve this?

1) Be committed:

to supporting the development of employees

2) Encourage employees:

to improve their own and other employee's performance

3) Make sure:

employees believe that we recognise their contribution

4) Make sure:

employees have equality of opportunity in their access to development

So what good practices could we adopt?

1) To address lack of action:

Get senior managers to devise strategies and put them into practice

Put the right systems and resources in place and maintain them

2) To address lack of communication:

Tell senior managers what your development strategies are

Understand how to get managers to support development

Help managers to see and understand what actions they have taken

Improve our communications to tell employees about development

3) To address lack of knowledge:

Find out what good practice strategies for employee development are

Ensure managers know their responsibilities in supporting development

Give manager plenty of ideas about how to support development

Look at how employees can develop on the job

Manage employee's expectation about development