Employee and Performance Development

Name: Employee and Performance Development
Author: Levi Mote

Learn how to develop employees to get their best performance

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(relaxed music) Welcome to Employee and Performance Development. In these lessons, we'll examine how to develop and manage your team by setting and monitoring clear and fair performance goals. Employee development is the process of improving employee's existing competencies and skills and developing new ones to support your organization's goals. When done right, the investment in time and effort will pay off over the long term. Let's say that you're given the choice to either terminate an employee with limited skills or to develop those skills to meet the organization's standards. Both will cost your organization resources. When an employee is terminated, that means having to spend the money to advertise, screen, interview, and hire a replacement. Not only that, you also risk sending a message to your team that they're disposable. If instead you retain and develop someone into a longer-term employee that's a win for both the employee and the organization. This is strategic employee-development thinking. So having a well thought out personnel development strategy is critical. When done correctly, it can benefit all parties involved including employees, HR managers, and your company. Employee development can assist a business in meeting and sometimes exceeding performance goals. Even a small initial investment might yield significant benefits for both the employer and the employee. One of the advantages of a well-defined staff development program is that it can better prepare people to deal with the unexpected. Development cultivates an adaptable workforce which is essential for promptly and effectively dealing with ever-changing situations. Another benefit of having plans for robust employee development is that this will create a well-balanced staff that can innovate and compete for new business possibilities. These programs can strengthen present abilities and provide longer term competitiveness by establishing new skills that may be required in the future. Bear in mind that top performers can be developed into tomorrow's leaders. An organization's ability to thrive depends on its ability to develop a strong base of capable employees who can step into leadership roles when needed by advancing your employee skills, you increase their chances of ascending to leadership roles. Investing in employees' continual growth is the best method to lift them toward higher standards. Employees like this not only bring financial benefits to the organization by increasing profitability and improving performance, but they also help with employee morale and retention.

Intermediate Provider : Levi Mote 5 Lessons · 13m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Urdu, Chinese

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.

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