Leadership Institute
Developing Others
Learning Format: Classroom
Order No. IMEX113
Organizations need to get the most out of their
people, and employees want the opportunity to
do more, grow and develop. Developing others
is critical to retaining key talent, driving higher levels
of employee engagement, and ultimately impacting
an organization’s success.
This course provides leaders, coaches and mentors with a practical process and the skills necessary to develop talent. It focuses on the leader’s role before, during, and after the development plan.
Do You Face Any of These Issues?
- Are development plans something that people only do “if they have time”?
- Does the development planning process break down at key points?
- Do leaders know how to guide the development of their key people?
- Do leaders fail to measure and monitor the progress of development objectives?
Objectives
Helps leaders:
- Build an agile team that can quickly adapt to changing work and skill requirements.
- Assist team members in the creation of meaningful development plans that focus on
the organization, the team and their individual development needs.
- Increase the likelihood that development
plans will be implemented and their goals
will be achieved.
- Increase team member job satisfaction and motivation while supporting strategic
organizational goals.
Primary Competency Developed
Secondary Competencies Developed
Course Overview
- Thinking It Through: Learners explore the who, why and what of development, clarifying the definition and differentiating it from learning or training. They then learn the three elements of the Development Process model—Assess, Acquire, and Apply.
- Assess: The Assess phase is introduced in a positive model video, and the best practices for Assess are discussed. Through an activity, learners debate the importance of developing a strength vs. a growth area. Then they receive a Development Action Form, which they begin to complete for one of their direct reports.
- Acquire: Learners watch a second video and evaluate the video leader’s use to
the best practices associated with the Acquire phase. The facilitator reinforces the importance of learners to provide support, coaching and feedback while team members implement development plans. Learners complete their action form for this section.
- Apply: Learners discuss why development plans can fail. After watching a video clip, they discuss the video leader’s use of the Best Practices to help their team member apply newly learned skills. They finish completing the Development Action Form.
- Application and Close: In teams, learners discuss and critique their Development Action Forms and select the most creative plan in their team. The selected plans are presented to the group, which votes on which plan is the most creative.
Video Segment Summaries
- A leader and team member celebrate the success of a customer service initiative
in which the tem member played a key role. They discuss why her success was important to her, the team, the strategic initiative team and the organization.
- We go back in time to an earlier meeting between the leader and the team member.
In this meeting, the two meet to discuss her development plan in which the Best Practices associated with Assess are portrayed.
- The meeting continues, with the focus on what the team member can do to acquire partnering skills, a growth area identified in the earlier meeting.
- The meeting concludes with the leader and team member discussing and agreeing on how the team member will apply her newly learned skills, knowledge, and competency.
Course Details
- Target audience: Frontline through senior-level leaders.
- Course length: 3 hours, 30 minutes. Course can be lengthened with optional activities.
- Facilitator certification: DDI-certified facilitator required.
- Prerequisites: None.
- Series: Suitable for all environments.
- Group size: 8 to 16 people.
- Prework: No.
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