American Strategic Management Institute

Managing Employee Development to Drive Productivity and Performance Improvements

Development of employee skills, knowledge and experience is essential in today's rapidly changing workplace. In order for the organization to remain competitive and to retain its reputation for excellence, employees should have up-to-the-minute information and the ability to use new technologies and adapt to organizational change. This training will teach you how to design an effective training and development program to support your corporate goals and strategies

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Managing Employee Development to Drive Productivity and Performance Improvements
DAY ONE: Identify Competencies for Optimum Workforce Performance

Module 1: Aligning Performance Goals with Strategic Objectives
• Translating overall strategic objectives into manageable performance goals
• Identifying and focusing on specific activities that drive individual and team-level performance
• Establishing incentives based on unit and organization-level success

Module 2: Establishing Strategically-Aligned Job Roles
• Aligning job roles/objectives and reward procedures with overall organizational strategy
• Developing valid, meaningful, timely, and accurate primary and secondary performance measures that directly impact unit and organization-level growth
• Empowering employees with strategy-based decision-making tools to increase efficiency of processes and effectiveness of service and innovation

Module 3: Workforce Assessment: Building Your Skills Inventory and Defining Competencies
• Conduct a gap analysis between current and desired state
• Create a supply analysis that analyzes staffing levels, workforce skills, workforce demographics and workforce trends

Module 4: Developing -Performance-based" Skill Enhancement Strategies
• Conducting competitive gap analyses to identify internal workforce performance goals
• Framing workforce performance goals with the corporate value system and strategic vision
• Developing development and feedback strategies for individual and organizational growth
• Aligning selection systems to organizational values and strategies

DAY TWO: Improving Employee Performance through Effective Development Programs

Module 5: Developing Training Programs that Support Strategic Growth
• Assessing needs based on competitive analysis as well as internal competencies
• Implementing training initiatives using multiple media and learning approaches
• Establishing a culture of development that ensures continuous training transfer

Module 6: Executing Training Initiatives that Drive Performance
• Achieving executive support and employee buy-in
• Assessing corporate cultural values to maintain cohesive work units
• Evaluating efficacy of training programs on overall strategic objectives

Module 7: Evaluating the Efficacy of Performance Improvement Programs
• Comparing pre and post-training performance on individual and organizational levels
• Capturing performance improvements from customer, supplier, and financial perspectives
• Assessing attitudes towards new training systems