DEVELOPING YOURSELF AND OTHERS JOB AID

• Identify strengths as well as growth areas.

• Review insights obtained from a variety of sources.
• Determine high-payoff development opportunities.
• Begin with the application in mind.
• Keep it simple: Focus on one strength and one growth area.

HIGH-PAYOFF DEVELOPMENT
• What are the current or future needs of the team or organization?
• What are the key skills/knowledge/abilities needed
to achieve these needs?
• What are the personal, team, and organizational
payoffs for developing these areas?

• Use a combination of learning methods.

• Leverage opportunities for learning that address more than one
need at the same time.
• Identify potential barriers and agree on support needed to
address them.
• Define measures of successful acquisition.

Formal Learning Learning from Others Learning from Experience

LEARNING METHODS

• Online training • Feedback from mentors, • New job assignments

• Instructor-led sessions leader, and peers • In-place developmental
• Self-study • Ongoing, real-time coaching assignments

• Reading • Observation • Off-work experiences

• Industry-related seminars • Shared experiences • Cross-functional

or conferences • Job shadowing assignments

• Webinars • Networking • Stretch assignments

• Job rotations

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• Ensure that application is immediate and progressive.

• Agree on progress and outcome measures.
• Anticipate barriers and plan how to overcome them.
• Leverage application opportunities with multiple benefits.
• Be open to unexpected application opportunities.

PROGRESSIVE APPLICATION

Apply skills on own.

Practice with others.

Practice one-to-one.

Meet to discuss
what was learned.

Provide ongoing support, coaching,

Take charge of your development by:
and feedback by:

• Making development a priority. • Helping to identify high-payoff development goals.

• Collaborating with your manager.
• Stretching beyond your comfort zone.
• Enlisting support to overcome barriers.
• Seeking out and being receptive to
feedback.
• Monitoring and measuring progress.
• Welcoming unexpected development
opportunities.
• Removing barriers to development.
• Identifying the best learning activities.
• Providing progressive opportunities to practice skills.
• Following up to monitor and measure progress.
• Providing specific feedback and coaching.
• Leveraging your network to find development
opportunities.

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