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3 Steps to Creating the Perfect Employee Learning and Development Plan
Learning and development plans are essential to any business, startups included
Learning and development drives engagement among employees, sharpens their skills, and much more — enabling them to contribute to your organization at an even higher level.
When it comes to the many tasks on your agenda, as a leader within a startup, building and maintaining a learning and development plan likely seems quite labor-intensive, but it doesn’t have to be. Using competency-based modeling, you can invest time and energy upfront into a sustainable plan, then simply allow the plan to run on an automated schedule.
Let’s dive into the three steps you can take to achieve that.
Step 1: Core Competencies
For any organization, there are core competencies for varying levels of employees that help employees be successful. Those same competencies can be further developed over time, making those employees even stronger over time. Your organization likely has competencies valued for any level of employee, like Attention to Detail perhaps, while there are additional competencies required for various roles, such as Leading Work Teams for leaders.
