Employee development is fundamental in accomplishing organisational goals in today’s competitive and ever-changing business world. An organisation cannot function without its employees, so businesses must invest resources and show commitment to supporting their training. But most importantly, having a development plan goes a long way in meeting the expectation of both employers and employees. As a manager or business leader, how do you approach the development of your employees? Are you applying the adequate procedures and processes necessary to achieve significant outcomes? In this deck, you will find actionable steps and strategies to help you design an effective development plan for your employees. You will also learn: What Employee Development entails How to apply a project management framework to employee development. How to approach employee development and the benefits of the approach The six (6) steps in creating an effective employee development plan

1. Cracking The Employee Development Code
A professional guide to creating an actionable development plan

2. How do your leaders
approach employee
Development?
…
Do your managers lack
what it takes to develop
their employees or
could it be that they are
not applying the skills
and concepts familiar to
them?

3. Employee
Development
Employee development is a joint initiative of the
employee as well as the employer to upgrade the
existing skills and knowledge of an individual in
order to support organisational goals.
Employees in an organisation form its vital resource
and must be valued, nurtured and retained.
Managers, therefore, need to see development as a project and apply project management
processes/procedures to better meet development goals.
Click here to read: How to Build a Learning and Development Culture in Your Company

4. Link between Project Management
and Development
Basic project management is
something that managers know
how to do. Lots of non-managers
know how to do it, and even if they
don't know how they understand
who's supposed to do what,
objectives or goals to meet.
But unfortunately, development is
treated differently than other kinds
of projects and many leaders fail to
use their inherent project
management skills to develop their
employees.
…

5. The Four (4) Basic Parts of a Project
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2
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4
Initiation; setting and
defining goals
Monitoring; conduct regular
Status meeting
Execution; provide
resources needed
Planning; develop plans to
achieve set goals
Just like every project team, this four main project plan is key to the development of employee and
should be the applied principle when managers and employees decide to create a development
initiative.

6. The Development plan is the
project.
The Project
responsible for providing the
necessary resources for managing
the overall project, and is
accountable for results.
The Manager
Is the project implementer and is
responsible for planning and implementing
the project and for providing status updates
The Employee
THE
FRAMEWORK
Applying Project Management to Development
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7. How do you
Approach
Employee
Development?

8. Leaders should approach employee development through the lens of project
management. Here are few essential steps/process
Step
03
Step
06
Identify what people
need to develop and
write development
goal.
Agree on mutual
expectations
Designing
Development
Assignment
Design how to
accomplish goal
Map out a plan
Implementation
PROCESS
OF
EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT

9. Establishing
Mutual Expectations
Step
03
Step
06
01 There should be complementary
expectations from employers and
employee when it comes to
development.
Not establishing mutual
expectations can lead to
conflict/misunderstanding on
both sides.
But beyond the
misunderstandings, it is very
important to establish protection
for development to be more
effective.
PROCESS
OF
EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT

10. Step
03
Step
06
02
Identifying what to develop is a
process of moving from the
general to the specific skill or
knowledge that the individual
needs to develop on.
You can discover what an
employee knows or can do using:
• Task Analysis
• Brainstorming techniques
• Competency List
• Behavioural Assessments
The findings from this provides
the goals or objectives.
Identify what people need to develop
and write development goal
PROCESS
OF
EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT

11. Writing the development goal
SMART goals can serve as a basis for writing your
development goal. What does it mean for a goal to be SMART?
Something you can observe or
see. This makes it behavioural
Specific
Challenging and meaningful goal
Achievable
You can assess or test
knowledge and skill based on
application
Measurable
The learning initiative must be
relevant to the job
Realistic
Set time based on the level of
expertise you want
Time Sensitive
S
M
A
R
T

12. Step
03
Step
06
03 Development Assignment are
activities or experience you put
together to enable individuals
achieve their development
goals.
The plan helps to accomplish
the assignment and is where
you identify milestones or what
you’re trying to implement.
Hence it should come before
the plan.
Designing
Development Assignment
PROCESS
OF
EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT

13. Criteria for Development Assignment
You can accomplish your
development assignment
by building on SMART
goals. To better achieve
desired results your
SMART goal must include
“ESST”=SMARTESST
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3
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SPECIFIC
Something you can observe or see.
This makes it behavioural
MEASURABLE
You can assess or test knowledge
and skill based on application
ACHIEVABLE
Challenging and meaningful goal
REALISTIC
The learning initiative must be
relevant to the job
TIME-SENSITIVE
Set time based on the level of expertise
you want
having the employee do some things or
perform activities that they find interesting.
Challenging ormotivating
ENGAGEMENT
Test and practice run to identify
level of expertise
SKILL LEVEL
Deploy different approach that will
help the employees know how they
are progressing.; feedback is key
SUPPORT STRUCTURE

14. Step
03
Step
06
04
To accomplish development
goals, you need to be able to
communicate, research,
develop your skill set, take
bold steps, use
workshops and classes and
set rewards
Click here to read: Creating the Right Leadership Development Plan for Your Organisation
How to
Accomplish Goals
PROCESS
OF
EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT

15. Step
03
Step
06
05 • Establish personal and
career development goals
• Establish work development
needs
• Develop action plan
• Make changes on the path
to development
• Reflect on efficacy and
update plan as requires
Map
Out a Plan
PROCESS
OF
EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT

16. Implementation
Step
03
Step
06
06 Once an employee
development Plan is created,
the next challenge is to
implement it successfully. You
need to be extremely careful
while putting your plan in
action.
Create questionnaires,
feedback form, do an analysis
and evaluate outcomes. Also
identify individual problems
and challenges
PROCESS
OF
EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT

17. Benefits
Makes learning and development effective
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3
2
1
It is critical for assessing performance and progress
The focus is on business process rather than on
psychological
processes
Here is why you need to approach
employee development via the lens
of project development:
Building on shared knowledge of project management plan makes the
learning easy because it’s a concept and language already
understood

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