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Personal Development Plan
As an employer, you want to offer good employees the required support and guidance. You want to motivate them to perform as well as they can and to grow. This implies that you do not only focus on your organisation’s targets, but also on your employees’ personal objectives.
By paying attention to your employees’ interests, drivers and learning preferences, as well as their competences, you clearly demonstrate that you are concerned about your staff and committed to their personal development. The fact that you do not opt for a standard approach, but deliberately choose to invest in their personal development plans, makes you an attractive employer.
A personal development plan is a valuable instrument in that respect. Acerta’s consultants can help you, as a manager or HR-training representative, to create practical and effective development plans.
Focussing on competences, talents and motivation
At Acerta, we are convinced that every employee is talented. The challenge is to recognise and appreciate employees’ talents, and to help them develop these talents further. You can use a wide array of instruments to discover the talents of your employees. Examples are assessment centers during the recruitment stage, development centers, appraisals and performance reviews. When using these instruments, it is important to broaden the scope, not only taking into account the competences required for the current position, but also considering your employee’s career ambitions. Explicit attention to personal objectives and interests will engage your staff and increase their motivation. An appreciative approach also means that your training and coaching investments will yield a higher return.
Every employee has a personal learning style. If coaching and training investments tie in with this style, the return will be considerably higher. At Acerta, we provide you with an insight into the different learning styles, linking them to various types of training initiatives. We also offer an insight into efficient, research-based methods and instruments.
Defining objectives
Creating a personal development plan starts with the specification of concrete learning objectives: which competences can your employee develop and what are the goals? Which benefits can your employee gain from his or her efforts? Allowing sufficient time for fine-tuning the learning objectives will increase employees’ motivation to actually reach those objectives.
Determining the right approach
In a next stage, you determine which route your employee should take to achieve the specified goals. This route will consist of a well-considered combination of training sessions, on-the-job training and coaching. Research has shown that, to yield optimal results, on-the-job-training and coaching are necessary additions to other training initiatives.
Acerta helps you determine which training initiatives are most appropriate and how you can attune these to your employees’ learning styles. The objective is to help you bring out the best in your employees, in a motivating, appreciative way. This way, Acerta helps you to valorise the human capital in your organisation.
To share their insights with you, our consultants have opted for a workshop, rather than a traditional seminar. In this way, your HR staff and people managers can easily apply the insights they gain. Practical and pragmatic.
