Career Development Training for Employees

Career Development Training for Employees

“We have found our 8+ year partnership with LSA extremely beneficial. We recently implemented an outstanding Career Development Training for Employees combined with a Management Development Program.

It was highly customized to support our strategic initiative of hiring, building, and retaining key intellectual property and human talent.

We worked closely with LSA to target people solutions with the greatest impact. I would recommend LSA to any company that’s looking for a trusted partner.”
Janice Passarello | Director of Human Resources | Harmonic Inc.

Overview
A recent Korn Ferry survey found that, after “compensation,” “a lack of career development opportunities,” was the top reason that employees leave their job — just ahead of “job security.” In order to retain top talent, build internal bench strength, and have skilled employees who can be moved into the right roles at the right time, employees must take ownership for their own career development.

Career Development Training for Employees is built to facilitate workforce readiness, develop employees who are engaged in the business, and improve employee tenure. The customized programs are designed to provide employees, their managers, and internal career coaches with a clear road map of how to develop a meaningful career. They also provide proven tools, assessments, and skills required to make it happen.

The payoff for developing careers within the organization is longer tenure, lower recruiting costs, higher levels of contribution as employee potential is realized, and improved employment branding as an employer of choice. The payoff to employees is less job stress, higher motivation, and the pride and satisfaction one experiences when making full use of one’s strengths and natural talents.

Description
Career Development Training for Employees focuses on the skills and best practice tools for employees to “own” their own career development. The career development workshop covers a four step process for the employee to follow, builds the critical skills for career discussions with both their managers and others within the organization, and provides a career development toolkit to support employee career discovery and internal career path planning.

Program Objectives
In this proven Career Development Training for Employees, participants learn how to:

Understand the definition of career development (its’ not just “up” anymore).
Clarify the various roles in Career Development: (managers, employees, and the organization).
Document and organize the personal assets they already have to work with for their career development.
Assess their natural talents, strengths, and interests.
Conduct research to determine what roles will be available at their company in the future.
Conduct internal informational interviews.
Plan for a career development step.
Identify career development gaps.
Conduct an effective career development conversation with their manager.
Assess the right job fit based on their skills, natural talents, passions, and the work that the organization needs accomplished.
Create a career development plan.
Keep career development alive through effective self management strategies.

Target Audience
Employees interested in developing their career.

You will know you are headed in the right direction when your employees:

Find their their job interesting and challenging.
See professional growth and career development opportunities for themselves in your organization.
Are able to utilize their strengths.

Tools & Concepts
The career development offerings share a core set of career development concepts and tools making it possible to deploy all three components together for maximum impact, combine two, or implement just one component as a stand-alone intervention.

The career development workshops include the following career development tools:

Career Development Preparation Tools
Manager’s Preparation Worksheet, Career Development Meeting Planner, and ‘Nine Box’ Readiness Evaluation Tools.
Career Development Self-Assessment Tools
Employee Values Self- Assessment, Career Assets Summary Tool, ‘Box Five’ Activity Worksheet and Cards, Informational Interview Planner, and Scanning Planner.
Career Development Planning Tools
Career Development Goal Setting — Gap Analysis Worksheet — Map to Future Tool — Individual Development Planner.

Career Development training for employees is often combined with Career Development Training for Managers to help managers support employee career development efforts.

To speak with an LSA Expert to learn about Career Development Training for Employees Program customization and delivery options for your company, please contact us.

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