Hardwiring Accountability

Kelly Spors over at the Wall Street Journal recently wrote an article focusing on the importance of development plans for employees. Development plans are a great way to help employees realize you are focused on helping them achieve their goals. This leads to your employees feeling more valued and makes them less likely to seek employment elsewhere.

In today’s competitive market, it’s important to keep key employees at your organization. You can help them achieve their professional goals by assisting with their personalized development plan. This may mean sending them to additional training programs or assisting them with enrolling in classes to advance their basic knowledge in an area they are interested in eventually working in. Development plans should never be mandatory. It is simply a way to help your employees outline what they need to do to achieve their goals in a specific timeline. Your employees will feel more valued because they will realize your organization is taking a real interest in helping them progress and achieve their goals.