Perfect Phrases for Employee Development Plans

Introduction

Employee development and skydiving are very much the same—both require enormous trust and taking a leap of faith. As managers, we teach what we know, and we often use the tools we feel comfortable with and have relied on time and again. And that’s okay, to a point. It’s only human to want to ensure the success of our efforts and the efforts of the people we are training and developing. Our employees’ ultimate success (or safe landing, to use the skydiving metaphor) is a reflection on how well we’ve developed their potential and talent up to that point.

How many times have you coached or trained an employee using some of the old-school methods that you relied on back in the day? The approach may not be right or wrong, good or bad. ...