Development Centres - The Service and Benefits
Retention of staff is one of the key difficulties most organisations face. Individuals expect more from their employers and demand that they receive it or go to somewhere they will get what they expect. One of the best ways to retain staff is to develop them in a structured manner. Employees look for a closer link between work and personal development and organisations need to be able to diagnose and manage ever-changing skills. Development centres benefit both the organisation and the individual for these reasons.
Development centres provide structured feedback on areas for improvement and are most effective for team and leadership enhancement. We work with you to devise a number of exercises, which will measure the competencies that you require for a role or in general throughout the organisation. These exercises can also help with general team building, if required. Skill gaps will then be identified and outputs can be clearly measured. Current skills are measured against benchmark skills. Once the gaps are identified, the appropriate learning solutions are suggested to achieve personal growth, which leads to improvements across the board to the benefit of the organisation and individual.
Development centres can help you to measure how effective and motivational/motivated your leaders and team members really are - and the gap you have within your organisation in being able to meet your strategic goals. The benefit to the individuals is that they have a clear development plan and are able to reach their full potential and bring projects to fruition more effectively and with less stress.
Development Centres may appear to be an expensive way of improving your team's skills but with the structure and focus provided they are in fact one of the most cost effective in terms of your business long term-goals.
The Difference
Leading Legends offers a development centre service on a menu basis. We can of course manage the complete process on your behalf, if required, but if you only need assistance in certain areas then we also provide this for you. Of course all the services are completely tailored to your organisation, the culture and roles you are looking to develop and the purpose of the centre. In an effort to reduce the costs of development centres, you can choose from the following services to add the extra element needed for your development process, and the more services you choose the lower the rates of each service.
Design of competencies
Design of exercises to measure the required skills
Provision of any number of qualified and trained assessors
Management of the centre
Structured feedback based on observations
Follow-up reports
Review of current development centre processes
Follow-up reviews
Whatever you need the additional resource for just contact us for further information.
