2.
Employee Development: formal education, job
experiences, relationship, and assessment of
personality and skills that help employees prepare for
the future.
Key Components:
Training: helping the employee’s performance at
their current job level.
Development: preparing employee for changes in
their current job such as new technology, work
designs, new customers, or new product markets;
very critical for talent management.
Training + Development= Employee Development
3. Employee Development is beneficial for both the employee
and organization.
The Employee
◦ Established professional goals and
aspirations. What professional
goals do I have? What excites me
to grow professionally?
◦ Recognize talents and weaknesses.
What are my talents and strengths?
◦ Identify development needs that
need improvement. What
development needs are important
to improve?
◦ Develop objectives and action
plans. What will be my objective
for this plan? What steps can I take
to meet the objective?
◦ Sense of appreciation and job
security.
The Company
◦ Positive leadership: integrating
competing demands that make up
the organization.
◦ Positive climate: emphasizing
positive opportunities.
◦ Positive relationships: generating
sources of enrichment, vitality,
and learning.
◦ Positive communication:
delivering negative feedback or
addressing problems are not
problematic.
◦ Positive meaning: employee's
positively adapt company’s goals
and have a higher performance
level.
4.
World’s largest processors and marketers of
chicken, beef, and pork.
Provides products and services to customers
throughout the U.S. and more than 90
countries.
Company has approximately 117,000
employees.
Company believes success depends on the
development of it’s managers.
5.
Identified employees with high leadership
potential and developed them into leaders.
◦ Objective: To create a group of managers ready to
take executive management positions with the
correct skills and attitudes necessary.
◦ Created a 2 year development plan (Leaders into
Champions (LINC).
1st year- “Lecture”
Reading “The Organizational Champion” written by the
company and adjusting their mindsets to adapt to changing
business needs.
2nd year- Experiential Event
Measured development progress of participants and
exposure to different parts of the business.
7.
British company- debt collecting.
Trained employees to listen to customers,
hear personal stories, and attempt to work
out payment plans.
Customer unable to make payment,
employees instructed to forgive debts.
Compassion, forgiveness, and virtuousness
guided process.
Debt collection improved by 50%.
