Also, don't forget to ask your subordinates for suggestions. They often have impressions about you that you'll never find out about, unless you ask for them. Integrate Results Expected from the Learner with Goals in the Performance Plan Include the training and development goals in the performance review planning and discussions. This affords ongoing tracking and discussion to ensure that training and development results are actually carried over into the results in the workplace. However, be very careful about evaluating the employee on whether they achieved career goals or not.
Many variables can occur which hamper the employee from achieving career goals.
Instead, focus performance evaluations on achievement of performance standards. Therefore, select training and development methods that include the learner's actually applying new information and methods in the workplace to a real-life problem. Experiences Learners benefit a great deal from ongoing feedback around their experiences when applying new information and materials. Ideally, training and development experiences afford learners the opportunity to describe the results of applying new information and methods, what they thought would happen, what actually happened and why, and what the learner gained from the experience. When Particularly after 12 to 16 years of classroom education, we tend to fall pray to several common myths about training and development.