Course Description
Employee development is the process of improving employees' existing competencies and skills and developing new ones to support your organization’s goals. Although it can be time-consuming and take a lot of effort and financing from your organization, those investments will more than pay off over the long term. Employees who are competent, engaged, and developed are critical to organizational success. But developing employees to get their best performance and finding the most efficient way to monitor, examine, and report on an employee’s performance can be a challenge for many organizations.
In this Employee and Performance Development course, we’ll examine how to develop and manage your team by setting and monitoring clear and fair performance goals. You’ll learn how to identify the limits and avoid the pitfalls of the traditional performance evaluation system. By the end of this course, you’ll understand how to effectively assist your employees in becoming more aware of their own skills, resources, and challenges.
What You'll Learn
- Define employee development and what it involves
- Identify the limits and pitfalls of traditional performance management and evaluation
- Distinguish between performance management and performance development
- Set and monitor clear and fair performance goals for your team
- Apply employee development to augment performance development
- Help employees become more aware of their own skills, resources, and challenges
Key Takeaways
- Employee development is the process of improving employees' existing competencies and skills and developing new ones to support an organization's goals.
- Although employee development can be time-consuming and require effort and financing, those investments pay off over the long term.
- Competent, engaged, and developed employees are critical to organizational success.
- Traditional performance evaluation systems have limits and pitfalls that can be identified and avoided.
- Effective development helps employees become more aware of their own skills, resources, and challenges.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I learn in this course?
You'll learn how to develop and manage your team by setting and monitoring clear and fair performance goals, identify the limits and pitfalls of the traditional performance evaluation system, and understand how to help employees become more aware of their own skills, resources, and challenges.
What is the difference between performance management and performance development covered here?
The course examines the difference between performance management and performance development, including how employee development can help augment performance development.
What topics or lessons does this course include?
Lessons cover Defining Employee Development, The Limits of Traditional Performance Management, Performance Management vs. Performance Development, Employee Development as Performance Development, and a Test Your Knowledge assessment.
Who is this course for?
It is suited to those responsible for developing and managing a team, since it focuses on setting and monitoring performance goals and assisting employees in becoming more aware of their own skills, resources, and challenges.
Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 0.25
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