New individual development plan examples will boost job performance fast
If you are struggling with how to improve job performance, try these innovative individual development plan examples. They are designed to be a strong but simple performance improvement tool.
When included as part of your employee development tools, these templates increase employee engagement and retention while boosting work performance.
The reason why? They focus on job skills development, so their work performance can improve very quickly.
The power of individual development plan templates focused on job skills
A focus on job skills is a win-win for both employer and employee, because:
- By concentrating on job proficiency skills, employer can pinpoint exactly where employee needs improvement.
- Developing your employee’s job skills and soft skills is more effective than vague, abstract long term goals that only confuse them. So performance improvement is assured.
- Using individual development plan templates, employers are now able to develop multiple skill sets in parallel each quarter – job skills, soft skills, leadership skills etc.
- These templates offer easy set up and implementation: self-evaluation template allows employee to fill out plan in advance, employer just needs to make any edits or changes at quarterly review.
How to set up this individual development plan example
If you are a manager or employer who wants more productive and engaged employees, these individual development plan examples are ready to be edited and deployed immediately.
They are the perfect tool to help you target key areas of development for employees.
To get the best benefit of this employee development plan template, see this employee development resource.
It explains how to properly set up and administer the employee development plan templates with examples in PDF and Excel:
Individual employee development plan example – to develop employees job skills
About the Author and Course Creator
My name is Larry LaFata, I am a talent development coach and the founder of The Modern Leadership Center.
After 30 years’ experience working with Fortune 500 companies, I turned to my passion the last 10 years: leadership training and employee development courses.
I have a unique ability to synthesize research and innovation into organized, usable training concepts. This practical approach ensures that my programs and courses are concise and effective. The result is self-assessment and skills development templates designed to truly customize your results.
No psychology tests or theories are used here. The focus is only on skills development.
My goal is to provide you with streamlined solutions for leadership training, employee development and emotional intelligence. Designed in such a way that you can implement them quickly.
How employee development cures poor job performance
Employee development is the fastest way to performance improvement.
This is because you are focusing on job related skills, not employee development goals that are vague. This focused approach is how this individual development plan can instantly improve poor job performance.
You’ve seen the crappy individual development templates out there. If you are using a 1 or 2 year development goal, you are confusing your employee. You are putting their focus on the future instead of on job performance skills they are using now.
This individual development plan example helps you avoid that mistake. It is properly focused on job proficiencies and soft skills the employee uses daily.
Here is your free Individual Development Plan Template:
Note:
No need to wait till quarter end to implement this template.
You can set up this employee development tool for new hires or mid quarter for existing employees.
How to set up this individual development plan template
The employee self evaluation is part of the employee performance review template.
First thing to do is grab the employees job description and job requirements. From that you can extract job skills and work performance expectations you want to develop
From that you draw a list of job skill proficiencies.
The employee self-completes the EDP in advance of sitting down with manager.
If you’ve downloaded your employee development plan template, you can follow along better here.
- Job role proficiencies: are pulled from employee job description and job requirements
- Employee self evaluation: Employee self rating section allows them to rate themselves in each job skill and rank the skills importance to develop
- Manager rating: this section allows manager to rank and rate employee skills as well, so they can collaborate
- Specific agreed on development goals for quarter: these are the final 3 skills the manager and employee agree to work on the following quarter
Simple as that to focus employee on skills. The employee can then work on them for the quarter.
Do the same process with soft skills and leadership skills.
Example of a completed individual development plan template, with employee self evaluation
This employee development plan example is for a sales representative. Their key skill categories might be:
- Generating sales revenues
- Proficiency in appointment setting
- Software demo proficiency
How to use the individual development plan template for soft skills training
You can use this same skills development process to develop emotional intelligence habits using soft skills. You can develop leadership soft skills as well.
- Using the same individual development plan examples, enter the specific soft skills you want employees to develop
- Then enter the specific leadership skills you want them to develop
- Use the same rank and rate process to narrow down the skills that are most important for the quarter
Quarter end review using an employee performance review template
Each quarter end, the manager and employee will review their progress in the employee performance review template.
Manager will review how employee performed on each skill. Based on the outcome they have the option to award rewards.
Summary for how to put together effective individual development plan examples
Effective individual development plan examples that boost employee job performance should include:
- Individual job skills and soft skills, not abstract goals
- An employee self evaluation or self-appraisal that allows both their input and manager’s input
- Is part of the employee performance review template at end of quarter.
New employee development plan
These individual development plan templates are part of my complete employee development plan template kit.
If you want to boost your employees job performance from day one, with a concise, organized process, why wait?
Start your employee’s transformation now:
Boost employee job performance from day one
Build job skills and soft skills quickly with concise templates
Innovative Employee Development Plan Template Kit includes everything an employer needs to improve employee job performance from day one.
- Saves employers time: easy one time set up, fast quarterly reviews and employee completes their own self evaluation templates
- Build job skills, soft skills, leadership and emotional intelligence customized to the level of each employee’s skillset
- Rewards program templates insure employee motivation and retention
- Step-by-step instructions guide and clean employee skills development templates in excel.
Best for up to 30 developable employees.
