CHAPTER 28

Develop Your Talent Development Staff

You are a talent development professional—and there is a good chance that you are also a manager. That puts you in the same situation as the managers to whom you provide services. Let’s review several suggestions about how you can develop your team.

We usually think about our work as ensuring that participants have competence—the content and the skills. However, if that’s all they receive, we’re forgetting two-thirds of what’s needed. They also need the commitment to make changes based on the content, and the confidence to make the change. Developing your staff is an extension of that philosophy.

Your leadership has confidence that you have the competence and commitment to develop your staff to ...

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