Best Practices for Developing People
- People learn best on the job with constructive feedback and coaching.
- Help people learn to accept feedback constructively as a first step.
- Ideally, help people set up a process to develop themselves.
- Strive to develop skills in others that you think are important while also helping them to find themselves.
- Put people into a range of stretching projects, not just the immediately obvious ones.
- A good developmental process should include some form of log book for them to record what went well and what they
- want to improve for every aspect of their job.
- You, or a mentor, should review their progress regularly.
- Regular reviews help to consolidate learning and plan next steps.
- Feedback from others on key developmental areas is also critical. Anonymous feedback through questionnaires will be more honest.
- A training course is only a one-off event; development is a process
