Driving Career Results How to Manage Self-Directed Employee Development

by Brenner, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780134381640
• ISBN10: 0134381645
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-01-10
• Publisher: Pearson FT Press

Summary

YOUR BEST ROUTE TO CAREER SUCCESS

 

CREATE A PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN YOU OWN AND CONTROL!

• Complete, easy-to-use Individual Development Planning template for you or your colleagues
• Hundreds of bite-sized, practical, no cost ways to take charge of your own development
• Plus Exclusive HR Tips for implementing Self-Directed Employee Development at your company

Take control of your career by taking control of your own learning and development! Nobody will do it for you anymore: you have to do it yourself. Start now, and you’ll be miles ahead of everyone who’s still waiting for help!

 

Driving Career Results brings together all the tools, ideas, plans, and techniques you’ll need. World-class HR expert Linda Brenner has helped tens of thousands of businesspeople succeed. Now, she helps you assess your personal strengths and opportunities, and then systematically improve in a manageable, practical way.

 

Brenner offers expert tips for leveraging strengths and improving development areas in areas such as judgment, problem-solving, creativity, trust, influence, teamwork, planning, business acumen, customer focus, grit, technical savvy, communications, collaboration, integrity, accountability, curiosity, innovation, courage, and more. You’ll learn where to start, what to prioritize, how to commit to a personal plan of action…and how to make it happen!

 

Are you waiting around for someone to “develop” you? You may be waiting a long time. Nowadays, you’re in the driver’s seat of your own career, whether you know it or not. Corporations don’t have the time and energy it takes to truly help you learn and improve. It’s all on you.

 

Driving Career Results shows you how to drive your own development…simply, effectively, and at virtually no cost.

 

Whether you’re targeting a more challenging, higher-paying role or your very first job, this book is for you. (And if you’re an HR leader, this book will help you implement self-directed development in your organization!) Step by step, Linda Brenner helps you:

• Identify your greatest strengths and most critical areas to improve
• Build your individual development plan
• Choose from hundreds of free, bite-sized, media-rich, self-directed development ideas
• Collaborate more successfully with colleagues and your manager
• Track your progress in self-development

Whatever your career goals are, there’s only one way to get where you want to be: drive your own learning and development!

 

For more information, check out our companion app at www.skillsify.com.

 

Author Biography

Linda Brenner is Managing Director and Founder of Designs on Talent, a firm that has spent over a decade helping businesses improve the way they hire talent, retain talent, and identify emerging leaders. A well-known thought leader in the talent space and a frequent presenter at recruiting, HR, and talent management events, she started Skillsify, Inc., an HR technology firm, in 2011. Her clients include Chick-fil-a, L'Oreal, Turner Broadcasting, Linkedin, Cox, and Coca-Cola. Prior to launching her own companies, she spent her professional career in talent acquisition and talent management leadership roles for great companies like Gap, Pepsi, and Home Depot (where she led enterprise-wide efforts including succession planning, 360° and career management). Her areas of expertise include talent strategy development, talent acquisition process improvement, leadership development, simulations and assessment centers, and self-directed employee learning and development.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Driving Your Own Development
Assess Yourself
Create a Plan
Best Practices for Development Planning
Template

 

Competency: Demonstrates Thinking and Judgment
Behavior 1. Is a Problem Solver
Behavior 2. Embraces and Applies Creativity
Behavior 3. Makes Objective Decisions
Behavior 4. Finds, Creates and Leverages Data
Behavior 5. Takes Calculated Risks

 

Competency: Engages and Develops People
Behavior 1. Builds Trusted Relationships
Behavior 2. Influences Others
Behavior 3. Promotes Teamwork
Behavior 4. Motivates Others
Behavior 5. Selects Talent
Behavior 6. Develops Others

 

Competency: Delivers Results
Behavior 1. Demonstrates Business Acumen
Behavior 2. Champions Customer Focus
Behavior 3. Plans and Organizes
Behavior 4. Sets and Drives Priorities
Behavior 5. Overcomes Obstacles
Behavior 6. Demonstrates Technological Savvy

 

Competency: Communicates Effectively
Behavior 1. Writes Effectively
Behavior 2. Develops and Delivers Compelling Presentations
Behavior 3. Tailors Interpersonal Approach
Behavior 4. Shares Information
Behavior 5. Adopts a Cross-Cultural Mindset
Behavior 6. Collaborates Across Boundaries

 

Competency: Visionary Leadership
Behavior 1. Challenges Norms Appropriately
Behavior 2. Manages Courageously
Behavior 3. Navigates Ambiguity
Behavior 4. Creates Culture of Innovation

 

Competency: Personal Excellence
Behavior 1. Demonstrates Integrity
Behavior 2. Relishes Accountability
Behavior 3. Exhibits Intellectual Curiosity
Behavior 4. Develops Self