By: Tony Dale Crass, Jennifer Coleman Kern

William KernodleAndrew Thomas

Nina Vlatkovic

Introducing…

Creating a Culture of Development

Development

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn”.

Benjamin Franklin

Creating a Culture of Development within an Organization

This is exciting stuff…

United States Workforce• Globalization• Cultural Diversity• Multiple Locations• Generational Impact

• Traditionals• 1922-1945

• Baby Boomers• 1946-1964

• Generation X• 1965-1980

• Generation Y (Millennials)• 1981-2000

SHRM Dates

Current Conditions of Constant Change

What is a Culture of Development?

Culture of Development• Employee Engagement • Training, Learning, and

Development• Collaboration• Team Work

Benefits• Knowledgeable and Forward

Thinking• Retention Rates Increase• Organizational Citizenship

Engagement

Culture of Learning and Development

Bob McDonaldCEO of P&G(Procter & Gamble)

“We have got to have a learning culture because the world is changing more quickly today than ever before. If we don’t learn to adapt, we will be prisoners of the past, and we won’t be around”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLYroqAyEBw

Company Morale

Company Morale

Develop and Train Employees

• Allows employees to attain Highest levels of:• Confidence• High self-efficacy• Increase in

responsibilities• Increase efficiency

• Time• Production • Quality

Company Morale

What’s the point?• When employees like and talk to

each other • Operations are much

smoother.• Problems get resolved

faster.• Productivity goes way up.

• Great employees have a natural drive to better themselves you have to give them this chance to keep them around and keep them happy.

Succession Planning and Promotion Opportunities

• Succession Planning in the military is very different than regular businesses

• Working with military takes time to understand

• Succession is common and can vary

• People change leadership roles constantly

• Military succession planning prepares the individuals for their next assignment

Succession Planning and Promotion Opportunities

• Promotion can and does occur every 6 months

• Promotion opportunities can happen at any time

• Not knowing how military promotions work

• Knowing how to write a military evaluation can make or break your position

• Most military evaluation reports have a combination of characteristics

Succession Planning and Promotion Opportunities

Military Evaluations (Navy)

Matching CorporateCulture With the Individual

Factors

Expectations• The Firm’s

expectations for growth

• The Individual’s expectations for growth

Priorities

• Generally, the firm’s highest priority is developing the company.

• Generally, an individual’s priority is personal development.

• Development Efforts– The corporation shows it’s interest in corporate growth by introducing new employee training programs– The individual shows his or her interest through personal initiative

M. Veilleux, Panera Bread

A Firm’s Efforts

What makes these programs successful?

• Congruence is not related to participation in continued education.

• However, congruence is positively related to the application of continued education.

Johnson and Beehr, Journal of Vocational Behavior

Application of Developmental Programs

• Success comes from the individual– Interest– Intrinsic motivation

R. Dowdell, Farrer Brothers Hardware

Training and Development

Training and Development

• Modern organizations will not get very far without constantly training their employees

• Research supports that employees participating in more training and development are less likely to leave the company and less likely to engage in neglectful behavior

• Use competency models to determine what kind of training is needed

When is Training Needed?

New EmployeesNew job

requirements or processes

RemediationEmployee

development for advancement

Designing Training Methods

Technical skills

Written material,

programmed learning, job

rotation, projects

Human Relations skills

Role-playing, behavior

model

Conceptual and design/business

skills

Cases, in-basket

exercises, management

games, interactive

videos

Types of Delivery for Training

• On-the-job training

• Classroom training

• Distance Learning• E-learning• Simulations

Creating a Culture of Development within an Organization

This is exciting stuff…