Strategic Employee Development Guide

Align employee goals with organizational objectives! Development planning can be tough. You want to ensure that employees are satisfied, but you also want to confirm that they're contributing to the organization. How can you balance these objectives? For many organizations, development planning is haphazard and has little business rationale. This unique guide is the first to tie employee learning objectives to business goals. The Manager's Guide shows you and your managers how to establish a development plan with your employees. The Employee Workbook, when used in conjunction with the Manager's Guide, provides your employees with worksheets and helpful hints that they will use throughout the year to track and measure their development.The Group Facilitation Guide enables you to conduct a development workshop with large groups, or to conduct an orientation session that would precede organization-wide application of these tools. When you present Strategic Employee Development to your managers and supervisors, they'll discover the answers to their performance review questions and learn how to make this powerful package work for them.You'll use this systematic approach to stimulate increased organizational productivity and profitability. Employees will thrive on the real-life, logically structured development framework. No more worrying about what to say and what to do-harness the power of performance appraisal! Use this comprehensive system to: * Sharpen the focus of employee development* Provide a basis for employee evaluation* Contribute to employee satisfaction ...and much more!

Table of Contents:
What is this guide?; when to use the guide; the principles of effective staff performance; tools for improving training effectiveness - manager, clarifying goals and process objectives, team, creating a team workstep map, individual, relating your job to educational goals, performance support analysis.

About the Author :
ROBERT O. BRINKERHOFF, a professor in the College of Education at Western Michigan University, is the author of ten books on evaluation and training, including Achieving Results from Training (1997) and The Learning Alliance (1994), both published by Jossey--Bass. His consulting clients include The World Bank, IBM, and The Federal Aviation Administration. RHONDA C. MESSINGER, founder of RC Messinger Instructional Development, is a professional educator specializing in using adult learning patterns and behaviors to increase knowledge and retention of information. She is also a senior consultant with Learning Solutions Group in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her clients include Quaker Oats, Monsanto, and the University of Chicago.