Fostering Professional Development

Lesson Learned Key Success Factors in Fostering Professional Development

  • Develop universal organizational goals that are reflected in individual performance appraisal.  Everyone sharing a goal and working towards the goal reinforces your culture. 

  • Build concept of growth and development into core expectations of roles and incorporate it into performance appraisals/goal setting for the year.  If training is a part of the plan, ensure they are able to apply their new skills in their work. Revisit the professional development plan regularly, every 3 months is recommended…

Notes from the Field

“We provide cross training for staff interested. This ensures we have folks to move in to positions if vacated or programming changes they have the skills to be part of another program. We provide 3% of salary for staff development. We recognize successes at staff meetings. We have a “you rock” box that staff anonymously put accolades in and I read them at our staff meetings. We do a staff retreat annually (1 overnight) bring in trainers and generally have a good time.”

Employment & Education Centre, Brockville

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