Planning Training and Career Development

OBJECTIVES
• Assess company growth objectives against current and future change.
• Audit existing skills and competency requirements to meet those objectives
• Conduct a successful training needs analysis for individuals and teams
• Select the right type of training and education to cover the skills deficit/ development.
• Assist in succession planning and future staff training development
• Use performance and assessment tools to guide individuals and teams
• Carry out initial job evaluation
• Use mentoring and coaching skills to retain valuable
• Individual Exercise: Developing the action plan

COURSE OUTLINE
The inevitable forces of change
• Global market developments and the skills crisis
• The implications of not preparing for change
• The need for changing skills: developing new goals and objectives
• Analyzing future needs against corporate goals
• Corporate development needs analysis Vs. what employees expect today
• Video –The Business of Change and the Change of Business
• Discussion: The role of management in assessing and coping with change.

The challenges for team building and management development
• Performance management: The corporate training thermometer
• Assessing the value of jobs
• Job evaluation (where are we now?)
• The economic & social impacts of ineffective career decision making
• Discussion: HR: Whose responsibility is it anyway?

Strategies for building key human resources
• Developing a strategy (where do we need to be?)
• Job assessment and re-design
• Education, training and refocusing of key personnel
• Role-play exercise: The value of mentoring and coaching

Corporate stress: Losing key staff and its effect on human resources.
• Establishing company and financial growth objectives
• Retention: Translating objectives into people development
• Video: Management Development

Training & Development strategies
• Training Needs Analysis
• Covering skills deficits
• Training program development (how do we need to get there?

Career Development strategies
• Developing a policy of Career Guidance
• Case study
• Succession Planning
• Career changes within the organization
• The role of job rotation and multi-skilling in modern organizational frameworks

Career Development Blueprinting: The Planning process
• Objectives : The corporate blueprint planning process
• Where can we start career development planning?
• Traditional and modern career development paths

Development of Selection & Assessment Criteria
• The methods and tools of selection
• The part played by corporate culture & work styles
• Fitting the right candidates into the right jobs: No square pegs into round
• Assessing competency requirements
• The value of psychometric testing
• Discussion: The importance of selecting the right person for the right job.

Acquiring valuable skills to aid career development
• Using on-the-job training to acquire skills and experience
• Developing future managers
• The value of interpersonal skills in career development
• Discussion: What skills are lacking in our new entrants?

Action planning to help do things differently.
• The need now for an action plan
• Components of the action plan