By CornerStone StaffingWhat is a development culture? It’s the means to achieving a high performance workplace through a strategic focus on employee development. Development initiatives should address everyone’s learning and training needs at every level and in every department throughout the organization. It’s not a fad or a trend. It’s a development culture.
When employees who want to achieve success have the pathways to do it, it makes an organization better. In fact, organizations that strategically invest in employee development report 11% greater profitability and are twice as likely to retain their employees.Development culture starts from the top down, therefore, it’s up to an organization’s top leaders to build – and maintain – a development culture.
Microlearning is another option. This involves sprinkling small doses of learning and development throughout employees’ normal work schedule. This could be sharing daily insights through the company’s internal communications platform or setting up a weekly company-wide email series featuring new learning content.
Whatever strategy is chosen, the important thing is allocating the necessary time for learning and development at every organizational level.A development culture starts from the top down, and that includes managers. In fact, managers are a key part of making development culture a reality as they are closer to an employee’s daily routine and work. This makes them the perfect vessels to engage and develop employees.
Employees are more likely to learn and grow when they receive immediate, specific and targeted feedback. And this feedback needs to be directly tied to the employee’s personal development. Coaching the employee individually on a path of growth and learning is the way to truly develop them within the organization.The right resource for one company might look quite different than that of another company.