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
In order to 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.

Related Information

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Tim Bonnet
Director of Training and Organizational Development

LSA’s action-learning leadership approach has been very beneficial to me, our leadership team, and the entire organization.

The balance of development and results has been excellent.

We have made huge progress, and I was also able to identify 2-3 high potentials while having the extra benefit of people stepping up to carry key strategic projects forward.

The experience was better than anticipated. I could not be more pleased.

Heather Feltman
President & CEO

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Technical Program Manager

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Vice President, HR and IT

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HR Manager

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Stacie Rodgers
VP of Human Resources

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Senior Director Talent Management

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VP Human Resources

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Noelle Van Vlierbergen
Human Resources Director

We have had a very beneficial partnership with LSA. Their recent Leadership Development Program helped us to identify, develop, and retain top leaders. It was instrumental in helping take our company and our key people to the next level. I would recommend them to anyone looking to truly develop and retain top talent.

Steve Janowsky
Vice President of Operations

We have worked with LSA Global for our learning and development needs and have always had great success.

They helped us recently with targeted and customized Management Training Workshops to fit our unique situation, and they were fantastic.

I highly recommend LSA to anyone that is attempting to help take their leadership and management talent to the next level.

Mary Johnston
HR Manager, BU Radiology Informatics

We have found LSA to be highly responsive to meeting our unique needs in learning and development. Their passion for high levels of business relevancy, customer satisfaction, and quality align very closely with our core values and talent management strategy.

Kudos to LSA Global. They delivered exactly what I wanted under ever-changing conditions.

Laura McHugh
Director of Training and Organizational Development

LSA helped us to create the strategic clarity and alignment we needed for our team to thrive.

The practical, no-nonsense, and outcome-oriented approach really helped us all get on the same page and set us up to be a high performing leadership team to focus on what matters most.

Michael Carter
VP Human Resources

Congratulations on your pro-activity in establishing this program and developing such an effective New Employee Orientation course.

Farhat Ali
President and Chief Executive Office

The experiential New Employee Orientation was an incredible success for 2,500+ new hires over 4 years spread across the globe.

LSA partnered with us to create an innovative solution on very short notice and added a huge amount of value.

We could never have done it without their unmatched combination of expertise, professionalism, and creativity that aligned everything with our unique culture and growth strategy.

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Founder and President