The document discusses how implementing a career development program can benefit an organization by increasing employee engagement, enhancing performance and retaining talent. It provides steps to build commitment, capacity and alignment around career development including gaining leadership support, clarifying roles, equipping employees and integrating it with other HR programs. The document concludes by stating that a career development program can drive business results and set the stage for career conversations between employees and managers.

1. Initiating
Career Development SolutionsCareer Development Solutions
for your Business

2. Connect Career Development to the business
-Career development drives engagement
-Engaged employees exert more effort
-Engagement drives business results
Career
Development
Engagement
Business
Results

3. Develop a Business case:
-What is Career Development?
-How will you define it for your organization?
-Why is it important? What are the current pain points?-Why is it important? What are the current pain points?
-What is the solution? where do you want to start?
-What are the outcomes you will achieve?
-How will you measure success?

4. Build
Commitment
Build Capacity
& Engagement
Build Alignment Build a Culture
of DevelopmentCommitment & Engagement of Development

5. Build Capacity
& Engagement
Build Alignment
Build a Culture
of Development
Build
Commitment
- Gain support of senior leadership; this is a
critical factor for successcritical factor for success
- Identify a senior level Champion, external to HR

6. Clarify roles
-Employee owned
-Manager facilitated
Build Capacity
& Engagement
Build Alignment
Build a Culture
of Development
Build
Commitment
-Manager facilitated
-Organization sponsored

7. - Equip employees and managers with a consistent, repeatable
process
- Dispel outdated thinking that career development equals
advancement
Build Capacity
& Engagement
Build Alignment
Build a Culture
of Development
Build
Commitment
- Dispel outdated thinking that career development equals
advancement
- Support movement in all directions
- Encourage growth in current position through job
enrichment
- Promote ongoing development

8. -Teach employees and managers how to have effective
career conversations with each other
Build Capacity
& Engagement
Build Alignment
Build a Culture
of Development
Build
Commitment
-Ensure career dialogue is supported; is happening
-Target all levels of the organization; Career
Development isn’t only for high potentials

9. - Integrate career development with other HR/talent
programs and practices
Build Capacity
& Engagement
Build Alignment
Build a Culture
of Development
Build
Commitment
programs and practices
- Link it to corporate strategy

10. transition from career development as a corporate
objective to a culture of development
- Develop a mindset that Career Development is
Build Capacity
& Engagement
Build Alignment Build a Culture
of Development
Build
Commitment
- Develop a mindset that Career Development is
continuous, not episodic
- Reward leaders who create a culture of development;
who support their people to try new things and develop

11. - Evaluate and measure progress
- Regularly seek input from employees and managers
Build Capacity
& Engagement
Build Alignment Build a Culture
of Development
Build
Commitment
- Regularly seek input from employees and managers
- Evaluate metrics like retention, engagement,
leadership pipeline, productivity, performance
- Present quarterly to senior management

12. Career Development:
- Improves retention
- Increases engagement
- Enhances individual
performance
- Unleashes potential
- Fosters career ownership
- Drives business results
- Differentiates organizations
- Increases quality and
readiness of leadership
pipeline
- Unleashes potential
- Sets the stage for career
conversations
- Enhances relationships
between employees and
managers
pipeline
- Connects people to business
strategy
- Aligns employee development
with the organization’s
talent needs

13. We can help!
We are People First Career Management.
We provide tailored Career Development
solutions to meet your organization’s needs.
Our work produces results.
We’ve measured results from both employee
participants and leaders. Results show
significant improvement in: employee
engagement, personal ownership and outlook
about potential within the organization.

14. Bev Braun-Allard
Bbraun-allard@peoplefirsthr.com
http://careerdevelopment.peoplefirsthr.comhttp://careerdevelopment.peoplefirsthr.com
@BevBraunAllard