Employee Development Needs and Strategies: A Detailed Report

This report delves into the crucial aspects of employee development within an organizational context. It begins by outlining methods for identifying employee development needs, including recognizing different learning styles (auditory, visual, kinesthetic) and utilizing techniques such as questionnaires, surveys, tests, and interviews. The report then addresses potential barriers to learning, such as emotional and health issues, financial constraints, social and cultural factors, and language differences, while also providing strategies to overcome communication barriers through feedback, change management, effective decision-making, and productivity enhancements. Furthermore, the report explores how to develop both self and others to achieve organizational objectives by emphasizing performance enhancement, knowledge updates, and the cultivation of soft skills. It also suggests support mechanisms, such as appraisals and goal-setting, and details the preparation of a development plan, including surveys, goal setting, providing resources, and offering presentations. Finally, the report highlights the use of questionnaires as a method to monitor individual and team development, emphasizing the importance of continuous improvement for both the employee and the organization's growth. The report concludes by emphasizing the essentiality of employee development for organizational success.

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Table of Contents
EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT IN AN ORGANISATION................................................................1
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
1.How to identify development needs in an organisation?..............................................................3
1.1.Identify the learning styles.........................................................................................................3
1.2.Tell a technique through which the developmental needs of any member can be determined..4
1.3. What are potential barriers to learning?....................................................................................4
1.4 How to overcome the barriers in communication ?...................................................................4
2.How to develop self and others to achieve organisational objectives?.........................................5
2.1Development options required to meet needs of self and and others in an organisation. ..........5
2.2. Identify the support mechanism for the development of self and the team member. ..............5
2.3 Prepare a development plan for achieving a learning objective................................................5
2.4 Tell a method which can be used to monitor the development of an individual or a team.......5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Self improvement is very useful for any organisation since it up gradation is required by
every person in this world. It is a process in which an individual continuously tries to improve ones
own knowledge and tries to improve the skills to survive the fierce competition and also to improve
oneself professionally as well as personally. Any individual needs to improve on a daily basis to
fight with the ongoing trends and environment. Here we will study about the employee
development scheme which the organisation will use to improve their current status and skills. If
organisation won't respect the employee then he will not be motivated and hence will under
perform. The only reason behind this is by respecting him and giving him proper praising for his
work it will give him a ego boost. The salary is just a motivating factor but the organisation should
aim at making him or her ready for the future work also.
1.How to identify development needs in an organisation?
It is very important to understand the developmental needs of any organisation. Following
questions need to be answered for this -
1.1.Identify the learning styles.
In order to increase the learning in the course it is very important to understand the type of
learner the person is. By knowing the type of learner one can easily use it to improve oneself. There
are basically three types of learner which are – a)auditory learner b)visual learner c)kinesthetic
learner.
a)Auditory learner – If a person learns merely by listening to what others say to him or her in the
form of lectures,any sort of conversation,and videos then the person is regarded as an auditory
listener. Many person are these types of learner who just listens and learn and then use this
knowledge to do an activity.
b)Visual learner – When a person learns by seeing any sort of information then the person is
referred to as a visual learner. It includes information coming from various channels like reading
some articles or seeing some diagrams,flow charts. They usually draw pictures,diagrams,take
careful notes during the class,summarise the main points as notes in order to understand later on.
c)Kinesthetic learner – These learners are the ones who learn through the trial and error method.
They actually do the things and then learn from their mistakes. These learners take risks and work
on their mistakes themselves and learn it accordingly.

1.2.Tell a technique through which the developmental needs of any member can be determined.
There are various techniques through which the developmental needs can be calculated. If
these techniques can be calculated then one can know what steps can be taken to overcome them.
Questionnaire and surveys – These can be used to know the problems and to get the reactions from
people. These include various questions which are linked to provide something crucial .The surveys
gives the required information.
Tests – Tests helps to understand where there is scope of improvement and the reality of the
employees. The results will show what skills need to be improved.
Interviews – Direct interviews can tell the company what employee need and what steps can be
taken to improve it. A common understanding is made about the need.
1.3. What are potential barriers to learning?
Barrier refers to the difficulties that come during the learning process. There are various
factors coming under this as follows -
1.Emotional and health barrier – If a person has a bad health and doesn't have a proper emotional
health then they will have problems in leaning. The illness obviously lowers the performance of an
individual and he can't learn properly.
2.Issues arising due to finance – If a person is under nourished then it becomes very difficult for the
person to perform at work or to learn anything.
3.Social and cultural issues – Discrimination based on the race and colour are also a reason for the
difficulties is learning. The person will feel bad and won't be able to perform as per his full
potential.
4.Language as a barrier – Having different language is also a problem here. If a person will have
different language then he can't understand the situations and topics going on. This can result in
difficulties in learning.
1.4 How to overcome the barriers in communication ?
There are certain ways through which the barriers can be overcome -
1.Feedback – It is a very important way of deciding the barriers which come in the way. We can see
that the feedback will give all relevant information which needs to be taken care of and used.
2.Change – Change needs to be made when things don't go in the way they are required to go. It
includes changing the old way of learning and implementing new ways of learning. If something is
not fruitful then the new ways can help to make the things work in alignment and help to learn
effectively.
3.Decision making – If decision made is correct and is useful for the person then it can be seen that
the barrier in learning will go away. The reason behind this is that wrong decisions often make the

person sad and results in bad influence over learning.
4.Productivity – Better the productivity better will be the result produced. So,a person should do
productive work in order to overcome the barriers.
2.How to develop self and others to achieve organisational objectives?
2.1Development options required to meet needs of self and and others in an organisation.
The needs of self and others can be managed by using following options-
1.Performance needs to be enhanced – The performance of any individual must be reviewed again
and again. It tells the scope of development and improvement that is required.
2.Updating the knowledge – Knowledge plays an important part in today's world. Most of the jobs
and people are seeing potential if they have good knowledge. Knowledge is endless and so it should
be taken care of .Improving the knowledge is a sure way of developing oneself.
3.Soft skills – Soft skills have to be used effectively to improve oneself.
2.2. Identify the support mechanism for the development of self and the team member.
There has to be a support mechanism for all the individuals of an organisation. It is seen that
the employees need to improve themselves from time to time. Motivation has to be given to the
people in order to improve the living standards and living style. So care needs to be taken. Giving
appraisals to the employees will motivate them to perform better. So proper goals must be set and
objectives can be meant here.
2.3 Prepare a development plan for achieving a learning objective.
A proper developing plan includes proper planning of the way which will be used to earn a
particular objective. Firstly a proper survey has to be done in order to know where the person is
lagging behind and what steps can be taken in order to improve his place. Here,the employee needs
to be taken care of the employee. Then a goal has to be given to the employee to make him receive
this goal. If he or she is able to achieve this goal then the person will be given appraisal and then he
can get a good ego boost. He should be able to understand the requirements of the job and how to
achieve the goals. Making them read professional journal books can help them get all sorts of
information required to fulfil the needs. They should be given proper presentations about the work
and then improve the quality as requred.They must be given proper scholarships in order to motivate
them. This way a proper objective of an organisation can be achieve and the person can be improved
from the base level to a newer level.
2.4 Tell a method which can be used to monitor the development of an individual or a team.
The method which can be used here to improve the development of an individual or a team

can be by framing questionnaire.
A Questionnaire is a set of questions which are given in order to understand what do an individual
thinks about any particular topic or a situation. It helps by understanding the importance of any
situations because it tells the particular mindset of an individual. We can see that the person's state
of mind can be read and proper steps can be taken. By taking back the answers of the questions it
can be known that where the individual is lagging behind. The research is done and due to it proper
results are made. Questionnaires will tell the need of the hour which can be used to enhance the
development of any individual. If development of any individual doesn't take place then the profit of
the company won't happen. Due to this there will be no use of companies business. If any person
will improve then the growth of him and the organisation will definitely take place and so it's good.
CONCLUSION
Employee development is very essential for the development of any organisation. In order to
be the best one should always try to upgrade oneself and work on a better path.

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