Employees should be involved in choosing the learning methods best suited to them. This is also of great importance to our organizations. Allowing employee skills to become obsolete is detrimental to the esteem of the individual and disastrous for organizational morale. It is also very costly in time, productivity, and dollars. Learning and experience are increasingly important to employees as they evaluate their job satisfaction.
Development planning relies on two very important tools.
The first is mandated within the state system, but is often a poorly used or misused procedure. This is the performance evaluation or appraisal. Performance evaluations are key to employer identification of training needs and opportunities. They also provide specific employees with goals for their development activities. Skill assessments are the second set of tools needed for quality development planning.