What is Employee Skills Development?
Employee skills development involves helping employees acquire new skills and enhancing existing ones. Developing employees frequently involves a range of training programs and learning opportunities provided by organizations.
The development of managers and senior leaders often over shadows the development of employees, professionals, technicians, and individual contributors. Yet, most organizations cannot operate at peak levels without a well-trained and well-equipped workforce. Investing in employee skills development unleashes motivation, fuels ingenuity, and sustains team member commitment.
What is in the Employee Skills Development Training?
CMOE’s High-Performance Teamwork training and learning programs goes beyond the typical core technical skills and mandated job training. We introduce vital skill sets that enhance team member contributions, drive bottom-line performance, bring about proactive change, and inspire team members to make a difference.
Employee Skills Development Will Help an Organization:
- Be leaner and more efficient
- Enhance productivity and cost effectiveness
- Continuously improve processes
- Be responsive to change
- Improve personal accountability
- Promote greater collaboration, alignment, and teamwork
CMOE works with each client to identify the most critical skill sets that team members need development on. We have electronic tools that can be used to collect and analyze data about current team member competencies if needed. We use all of the information gathered to create customized content to build a program or curriculum that is relevant to the needs of participants, highly applicable, and will maximize the learning and development investment.
Ways to Develop Employee Skills
- Mentorship: Pair employees with experienced mentors who can provide guidance and feedback.
- Skill Assessments: Conduct regular assessments to identify skill gaps and create development plans.
- Encourage Self-Learning: Support employees in pursuing self-directed learning by providing access to resources and time for personal growth.
- Soft Skills Training: Focus on developing soft skills like communication, teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving.
Employee Skills Developed
- Strategic thinking and planning
- Communication and interpersonal skills within a team
- Goal setting
- Emotional intelligence
- Responsibility and accountability
- Influence without authority
- Trust building
- Innovation
- Credibility
- Core principles and values
- Working through adversity and challenges
- Partnering with leaders
- Coaching peers and leaders
- Problem-solving and decision making
CMOE’s workshops and curriculums are developed using adult learning principles and are highly experiential. Our consultants and facilitators help individual participants discover how the concepts and skills apply to their unique situations and responsibility areas. We also incorporate assessments that reveal strengths and development opportunities for each participant. Depending on the unique needs of the organization, team member skill training can be delivered in a half-, full-, or multi-day formats.
