Boost your employees job performance from day one with this new employee development plan.
Attention employers and business owners with up to 50 employees
Unlock your team’s full potential, by focusing on job skills, soft skills and leadership skills. New Employee Development Plan shows you how.
If you want to improve your employee’s work performance but are frustrated with the current development programs out there, now there’s a failproof solution.
This new Employee Development Plan with Templates helps you gain massive performance improvement, without spending a lot of time or money to do it.
It is 100% centered on performance improvement. Your employees will develop job skills and soft skills, not abstract goals or metrics.
It’s the smart way to profitable, productive and loyal employees.
And your employees want it: A recent LinkedIn employee retention survey cited skills development as their number one desired request.
Unfortunately, there are not many good options for EDP’s out there.
Why Most Employee Training and Development fails
Most employee development disappoints employees because it distracts them with vague, abstract goals instead of job related skills development.
For example:
- You may have tried to deploy SMART Goals. But objectives that are 1, 2 or 5 years out are too abstract for employees to focus on. They become demotivated, frustrated and feel helpless. Studies show less than 5% of goals are ever attained.
- If you’ve tried the crappy employee development template examples you can get online, it’s even worse. They confuse your employee’s development with ambiguous goals, vague objectives and unrealistic timelines.
- Mentoring employees can be a hit or miss use of your valuable time, typically with a low ROI.
- Then you have those expensive employee development software platforms with monthly per-employee fees. They are overkill for a business with less than 50 employees. You can get stuck spending endless hours on data input and employee metrics instead of developing their job skills proficiencies.
Stop spinning your wheels on employee development
If your employee training and development solutions don’t develop employees job skills, you are just spinning their wheels – and yours.
That all changes now, with my new Employee Development Plan Template Kit.
These employee development plan templates are 100% focused on work-related job skills and soft skills, not vague long term goals.
It’s a turnkey, all-in-one skills based EDP that employers can implement right away.
Increase job performance by focusing on work-related skills
When you center on developing job skills, you directly impact your employees job performance:
- Assessing job skills allows you to zero in on exactly where the employee needs development each quarter.
- Job skills development is the fastest way to improve your employees work performance and productivity.
- Job skills assessed through a performance review template provide a continuous feedback loop to the employee, so they always know where they stand. This instills confidence and removes insecurity.
- Employee engagement increases because you are empowering them with self-evaluation template they complete in advance.
- At the performance review, manager can quickly review, edit and approve their quarterly skills development choices. It creates a true partnership collaboration between employee and employer.
- You can build emotional intelligence and leadership skill in any employee using soft skills training.
Get Employee Quality Control
Todays workforce has the widest variety of skill sets, experience, education and technology training in history.
By developing job skills, you can maintain what I call employee quality control.
When you train all employees to the same job skill standards and soft skills, you raise the job skill quality of the entire workforce.
Developing job skills like this is definitely a high ROI employee development strategy.
About the Author
My name is Larry LaFata. I’m the course creator and founder of WorkerMotivation.com.
I took my 30 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies and now build step-by-step templates and self assessments that streamline talent development.
My course creations include Leadership Development, Employee Development, Career Planning and Employee Rewards Programs. All are focused on performance improvement through skills development.
This Employee Development Plan is specifically designed for busy employers who want an all inclusive end-to-end process. You’ll save time with fast setup, employee self-evaluation and a 15 minute performance review. Provide employees continual development on quarterly autopilot.
Finally, an EDP specifically built to save employers time while effectively developing employee job skills on auto pilot
Employee development plan templates are your secret weapon to improve employee job performance immediately and permanently. And to save time doing so.
This employee development plan was specifically designed to save the employer time:
- Employee completes self-evaluation template in advance
- Manager reviews, edits and approves in the lean employee performance review template in 15 minutes each quarter.
The beauty of this skill development process is that you can allocate skills development weighting based on the employee’s needs, whether its:
- Job skills proficiency
- Job support skills proficiency
- Job readiness skills
- Soft skills to develop emotional intelligence
- Soft skills to develop leadership skills
- Behavioral skills self-resolution using soft skills training
Whatever the employees experience, background, education and current skill set, this program allows for their skills development to be fine-tuned.
- For example, for new employee training, you might want to focus mostly on job skills.
- However, if an employee is being groomed for management, you may want to focus them on soft skills to improve communications, emotional intelligence and leadership skills.
You can do all this with this new employee development program and employee performance review templates.
A failproof way to ensure employee performance improvement
This development plan is unique in that it is designed as a skills development plan, with a focus on performance improvement.
It does this with self-assessment templates that zero in on exactly where the employee needs to increase their skills proficiency, pinpointing their areas of most need.
Once 3 skills are chosen through by employee and employer collaboration, they are focused on daily for 90 days.
This sustained focus is a failproof way to insure that no employee falls behind so far as to ever need a performance improvement plan.
- Increase productivity by using templates to develop job skills, not vague long term goals. A focus on job skills motivates employee much better than abstract goals and milestones.
- Develop “Employee Quality Control.” By developing all employees to the same set of soft skills, you can raise the quality standards of your entire workforce. So no one gets left behind.
- Increase retention by increasing employability skills: A recent LinkedIn survey revealed that 70% of employees say they want to develop work-related skills in order to perform at higher levels in their job and advance in their careers. An EDP that develops job skill proficiencies increases your employee’s employability skills, a key driver of employee retention and job satisfaction.
- Build emotional intelligence maturity using soft skills. Soft skills templates are the best way to develop emotional intelligence, communication skills and leadership skills. This can improve every employee’s performance.
- Address behavioral issues. Soft skills added to the self-evaluation template is a gentle way to provide employers with a low-stress, neutral way to rehabilitate employees behavioral skills. This lets employees work through their issues in their own way over a quarter, removing acrimony.
- Employee rewards and recognition program included. This EDP includes a basic Rewards Program. Designed to be a cost effective way to provide employee recognition to motivate them and to engage them in friendly competition with perks and awards.
Structured to save employers time and hassle:
This employee development plan is designed to save employers time, while effectively developing employee job skills.
- Fast setup of EDP template. Employer sets up the Excel template by pulling job skills from the employees job description. Once its set up, you use the same employee evaluation every quarter on autopilot.
- Employee self evaluation saves time for the quarterly performance review: Employee ranks and rates their job skill proficiencies in advance of the performance review. This saves both the employee and the manager time, while building a collaborative relationship.
- Fast performance review in about 20 minutes each quarter. Employer reviews quarterly results. Then double checks, fine tunes and approves employee’s job skills self-evaluation for coming quarter. Entire process takes as little as 15 to 20 minutes to complete.
A strong but simple 3 step performance improvement process
This employee development process was built to be a concise and effective three step process:
Step 1. Build out the self-evaluation template of EDP.
The first thing you do is build out the EDP by pulling job skill proficiencies from employees job description.
Once you have created a list of job skills, you separate them into three categories.
- Job skills
- Job support skills
- Soft skills
The power of Soft Skills
Soft skills offer the opportunity to develop powerful skills in any employee:
- Develop emotional intelligence
- Develop your company culture, vision and values
- Develop Employee Quality Control to raise the skill standards of workforce.
Step 2. Complete the self-evaluation template of EDP to prioritize skills to develop for quarter.
Using my innovative side by side proficiencies ranking, the employee and manager prioritize 3 job proficiencies for employee to develop this quarter.
- The employee completes the self-evaluation in advance, so they can thoughtfully go through the list of job skills you pulled. They then rank and rate their skills proficiencies and prioritize them.
- Employer then does the same, going through employees choose to review, edit and approve..
- This side-by-side process builds employee buy-in to the skill development process, and strengthens cooperation between employee and manager.
- This template also sets up the employee performance review at the end of each quarter.
Step 3. Assess Results at the Quarterly Performance Review.
Using the employee performance review template, manager assesses the employee’s results for each skill development for the quarter.
This is a fast process that can take less than 15 minutes.
This should include specific outcome results for the quarter, such as:
- Percent over or under skill development goal
- Dollar value of revenue increase or loss
- Number of new customers added, etc.
Manager then rates each skill outcome.
The performance results for the quarter are used to determine (optional) employee rewards and recognition for the quarter.
Everything you need to get an Employee Development Plan up and running immediately
If you want an affordable way to implement a powerful employee job performance improvement plan, this template kit does the job. The fast and easy set up means you can implement it immediately.
The EDP Template Kit includes excel templates, instructions PDF and completed employee development plan examples and screen shots
The five components of the EDP Template kit includes:
- Editable EDP Templates: Templates in Excel that you customize for company-wide use as well as for each employee. You can deploy to employees immediately.
- Step-by-step instructions guide: Clear instructions guide you how to set up and implement all aspects of plan.
- Completed Examples you can follow: Completed sample EDP and plenty of screen shots to guide you each step of the way.
- Performance Review Template with how-to guide: Everything you need to administer the employee performance review each quarter in only 15 to 20 minutes.
- Rewards and Awards program: Includes set up and implementation of a cost-effective Rewards Program of inexpensive perks, bonuses or awards. Team build and motivate employees.
Strong EDP training and implementation support
And I personally back up this plan with strong client assistance support:
- Hourly client assistance support on video call: Video call assistance to help you through the set up of any aspect of the EDP templates that you need.
- Done for you service: I will set up employees EDP job proficiencies, the Quarterly Performance Review and Rewards Program, and role play Performance Review with employer.
All in all, this is the strongest Employee Development Plan for the cost you will find, guaranteed.
Now that you have seen how easy it is to implement a world-class EDP, I invite you to get started now so you can have more profitable, engaged and productive employees.
Why wait?
This innovative, all-in-one EDP will increase your employee’s job proficiency and strengthen their work performance right away. And it’s designed to be fast and easy to implement.
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Includes everything you need for total job skills and soft skills development.
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Frequently asked questions about the Employee Development Plan Template Kit
The Employee Development Plan Template Kit is a turnkey, step-by-step employee development program.
It is based on developing the employee’s work-related job proficiencies and soft skills. This enables them to focus on exactly where they need job skills improvement each quarter.
It includes:
- The Instructions Guide in PDF.
- The customizable templates in Excel.
- Completed examples of all templates in PDF.
- Bonus special: it also includes list of soft skills to develop emotional intelligence and leadership skills.
This EDP is designed for small to medium size employers with 1 to 30 developable employees. Is workable up to 50 employees.
A workable ratio is 15-20 employee reviews per manager, so it depends on how many department managers your organization has.
Compare vs. most employee development software platforms
Most online EDP software programs are expensive overkill for companies with under 50 employees.
This course was designed to serve the underserved market of employers with 2 to 30-ish employees who need employee development but can’t justify the huge monthly costs, labor intensiveness and complexity of software platforms.
Employee Development software has high “hidden costs” to be careful of:
- Labor and time intensive: Most software programs require a lot of data entry, typically requiring a dedicated employee, Office Manager or HR attending to them.
- Focus on metrics instead of development: Most employee software has a focus on employee metrics rather than skills development. So you end up measuring and comparing employees, rather than developing their job skills, leadership skill and emotional intelligence.
- Development mission hijacking: Many EDP software packages are corporate or enterprise platforms designed to scale to a large numbers of employees. They may provide employee metrics, fancy 360 degree reviews, comparison between employees and a bunch of nice-to-have but not really relevant reports.
- Doesn’t build a bond between employee and employer, like this EDP does. Enterprise platform EDP are impersonal. They don’t have a employee self-evaluation that builds a bond with employer throughout the performance review process.
This lean and concise EDP template kit changes that.
It’s designed specifically for small to medium business to put a failproof EDP in your reach. It’s only focus is on job skills and soft skill development.
It does not judge, measure or compare your employees, it develops them.
This employee development plan is a simple, failproof three step process: set up the plan, complete the plan, review the results.
Step 1: Employer develops a bucket of job proficiencies from the employees job description
Step 2: Employee and manager rank, rate and agree on up to 3 proficiencies to prioritize
Step 3: Employer and employee sit down at end of each quarter, to review results and plan the following quarters proficiencies.
Rinse and repeat step 2 and 3 on autopilot each quarter.
Employee Rewards Plan included.
There are five advantages built into this EDP that no other plan has:
#1
The focus on work-related skills: This EDP is 100% focused on employee job performance improvement and productivity, not vague long term goals like most EDP’s. The innovative templates are best-in-class for skills development.
#2
Designed to save the employer time: A complete, turnkey, step-by-step process that is easy to implement quickly. It includes fast set up of job proficiencies, employee self-completes their part of the plan, a speedy quarterly review for manager and minimal ongoing data entry
#3
Strong support: I offer hourly training support if you want assistance as well as a ‘done for you’ service
#4
Outstanding ROI: The cost of this failproof EDP is only $97
#5
Rewards Program: I include – at no extra cost – a Rewards Program
It’s a powerful way to recognize and motivate employees in a cost-effective way. It also is a great team building ritual that is looked forward to by the whole team
Compare the advantages of this innovative employee development plan against typical plans
| Traditional Employee Development Plans | This Employee Development Plan |
|---|---|
| Traditional EDP's do not increase productivity because they have vague objectives such as 1, 2 and 5 year goals, rather than development of specific work-related skills | This EDP focuses on job skills development and soft skills development. It focuses on work-related proficiencies, over a continual quarterly cycle. This allows employer to zero in on exactly where the employee needs improvement, boosting productivity. |
| Long term goals of one year or longer make it difficult for employees to know where they stand, so they typically lose focus | A quarterly performance improvement plan provides a continuous feedback loop to the employee. |
| Most EDP don't have specific ways of dealing with difficult, disengaged or insubordinate employees | The soft skills proficiencies section of my EDP provides a low-stress, neutral way for the employer to rehabilitate the employee's behavioral or interpersonal issues. This gives the employee a perception of a fair and caring employer. |
| Traditional EDP do not have a Rewards Program to unify and motivate workforce, or recognize individuals who excel | An Employee Rewards Program is included in this EDP. You can motivate employees by recognizing their outstanding contributions using cost-effective perks and awards rituals. |
| Most HR platforms measure employees so they can be compared to a benchmark, rather than develop each employee's unique strength | This EDP's job proficiency approach brings out the individual strengths of each employee, while at the same time, cultivating areas where they may have strategic flaws. The goal is to develop employees, not measure or judge them |
| Goals-based EDP's don't help employees grasp the overall scope of their jobs | Each quarter, as the employee rates and ranks each of their job proficiencies, they become very familiar with their job role. After a few quarters they mature into the full scope of their job and are clear about exactly what they are accountable for. |
| Most EDP's don't increase employee retention or reduce turnover, because they don’t increase job satisfaction | 70% of employees say they want to develop work-related skills, so they can perform at higher levels in their job. An EDP based on job proficiencies achieves this. This increases job satisfaction, strengthening retention. (Reducing employee turnover can increase your labor ROI by up to 34% per employee.) |
| Most EDP's are expensive, bloated and labor intensive, requiring extensive ongoing data entry to generate reports of often irrelevant employee metrics | This EDP gives you a failproof emloyee development strategy for $97, that's streamlined from the ground up for efficiency and productivity. |
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