If nothing else, I hope that from the Employee Learning Week activities, we've all had time to think about on-the-job learning and training, the wide range of activities that contribute to learning, and some of the resources that are available to help us acquire the skills and knowledge we need.
My final "official" ELW@PLS 2008 activity is an Employee Development Plan.
This worksheet is very similar to the Action Plan documents that come with Gates grant workshops, Logic Models for evaluation, among others.
This version provides a framework to identify strengths, areas for improvement, potential difficulties; to set specific goals, why the goals are important, and how success will be measured; and also what needs to be done, what help the staff person needs, and target completion dates. It is also be signed off on by both staff and manager.
I see this being a useful tool to link training activities to job performance to the overall success of our libraries. I also see it as a useful way to make sure that staff and managers are on the same page and see the mutual benefit of the development goals.
As always, I'd love to hear your input on this worksheet, the idea of structured goal planning, and other ways that this can be used or improved.
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