Driving Career Results · How to Manage Self-Directed Employee Development (Monica Dedhia's Library)

Today, companies increasingly need and expect their employees to own their own career development. Employees and job-seekers shouldn't expect companies or managers to 'develop' them; they should be prepared to develop themselves. In Driving Employee Development, leading enterprise HR consultant Linda Brenner shows both HR and smart employees exactly how to make that happen. Brenner offers proven HR tools for establishing and driving on-going, employee-driven development, and for helping employees create their own targeted, personalized plans to succeed. She offers practical exercises, templates, and assessments that employees can use to gain insight into their own strengths and weaknesses, practical tips for improving their most immediate areas of need, and practical guidance for improving overall performance in the long-term. Brenner offers complete sections on helping employees build several crucial sets of competencies, including: Thinking and judgment Engaging and developing people Delivering results Communicating more effectively Becoming a visionary leader Excelling personally In an era of short employee tenures and highly agile organizations, employee self-development is an idea whose time has come. But it's a radically new paradigm, requiring new approaches and techniques. If you want to make it work - for your organization, and for yourself - this is the book that will get you there."