Design an Impactful Employee Development Program
Solve the puzzle of employee development by designing a program to build competencies the organization needs today and in the future.
- Leaders have left employees to drive their own development without providing direction or support and without aligning development to organizational needs.
- Organizations position development as employee owned, yet employees still feel like their needs aren’t being met, and many leave as a result.
- Organizations often have a lot of employee development opportunities but don’t connect the right opportunity to the right employee.
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Our Advice
Critical Insight
Employee development needs to be employee owned and manager supported, but organization informed to ensure that it meets the organization’s needs. Operating environments change quickly, and organizations need to develop the competencies employees need both today and in the future.
Impact and Result
- Design an employee development plan that builds the competencies the organization needs both today and in the future.
- Connect the right development opportunity to the right employee through an effective employee development-planning process.
- Equip managers and build program support to foster continuous employee learning and development.
Employee Development
This program has been approved for continuing professional development (CPD) hours under Section A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA).
McLean & Company is recognized by SHRM and can award Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
HR Certification Institute's® (HRCI®) official seal confirms that McLean & Company meets the criteria for pre-approved recertification credit(s) for any of HRCI’s eight credentials, including SPHR® and PHR®.
How to complete this course:
Use these videos, along with the Project Blueprint deck above, to gain an understanding of the subject. Start with the Introduction, then move through each of the Course Modules. At the end of each Module, you will be required to complete a short test to demonstrate your understanding. You will complete this course when you have completed all of the course tests.
- Number of Course Modules: 5
- Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 hours
Learning Outcome
Describe how to design an impactful employee development program, from analyzing the organization’s needs, to designing program building blocks, to building program support.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Make the case for an employee development program in their organization.
- Conduct an analysis of the competencies the organization needs today and in the future.
- Define the requirements for designing an employee development program.
- Define the program support required and discuss high-level actions, communications, and metrics to implement the program.
Course Modules
Introduction: Introduction
Module 1: Module 1
Module 2: Module 2
Module 3: Module 3
Module 4: Module 4
About McLean & Company
McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Assess organizational needs
- Call 1: Review and prioritize competencies required based on internal and external analysis.
- Call 2: Identify employee segments to build custom development programs for (if applicable).
Guided Implementation 2: Design the employee development program
- Call 1: Review assessment inputs and outputs.
- Call 2: Analyze existing development programs and activities and identify new ones needed.
- Call 3: Review the development planning process.
- Call 4: Review follow-up mechanisms.
Guided Implementation 3: Build program support
- Call 1: Discuss integration of a dynamic learning mindset into the development program.
- Call 2: Review integration of employee development with other HR programs.
- Call 3: Review customization of job aids for managers and employees.
- Call 4: Review program goals and metrics to measure success.
- Call 5: Review action and communication plan.
Contributors
- Alan M. Saks, Professor of Organizational Behavior & HR Management, Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, University of Toronto
- Anonymous, former Senior Training Manager, Large Telecommunications Company
- Anonymous, Senior Manager of Talent & Development, Large Professional Services Firm
- Colleen Philabaum, Director of Learning & Development, Worthington Industries
- Dr. Karie Willyerd, Head of Global Customer Education & Learning, SAP and Co-Author of Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace
- Gerard Camacho, Director of Career Development, Parkland Health & Hospital System
- Julie Winkle Giulioni, Consultant, Speaker, and Co-Author of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
- Luis Alberola, Talent Strategy & Innovation, Owner, LA Consulting
- Michelle Ockers, Independent Learning & Development Consultant
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