With so much focus on employee retention right now, employee development and upskilling is a great way to help grow and develop your employees. This presentation will cover different strategies to encourage focused self-development as well as a more formal employee development program. It's not enough to have an employee development program, HR teams must be internal marketing and sales people making the business case for the program benefits and adoption. This webcast is pre-approved for 1.0 business HRCI and SHRM credits. A replay will be available for those unable to attend the webinar live.

1. How to Encourage
Employee Learning,
Development, & Upskilling

2. This webinar is pre-approved for
1.0 business HRCI and
SHRM credits.

3. Speakers
Jessica Miller-Merrell, SHRM-SCP
Founder
Workology
Elizabeth Beckham, MS CWDP
Learning & Development Manager
Turner Industries Group, LLC
Jason Arnold
Director of Leadership Solutions
Inspire Software

4. Develop Leaders
Enhance Culture
Get Results
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Jason Arnold
Leadership Solutions

5. Built for How You Work, When You Work.
Goal Science
Help your people set and MEET their
SMART goals & OKRs, enterprise-wide.
Leadership Development
Supercharge your workforce leaders through
expert-backed learning and assessment.
Performance Agility
Continuous performance, engagement and growth
through integrated goals & regularly tracked reviews.
Feedback & Recognition
Impactful conversations in real-time build
stronger employees.

6. Agenda
● HR Flow Decision Framework
● Identifying & Diagnose
● Formal vs. Informal
● Measuring Success
● Taking Action

7. Labor Market / Trends

8. Poll Question #1
What is your biggest focus right now when it comes to
talent?
a. Creating executive or high potential leadership
programs
b. Focusing on training and upskilling efforts
c. Training as a talent retention strategy
d. Creating talent funnels leveraging training externally
e. Other

9. HR Flow Decision Framework

10. Identify & Diagnose
● Most Critical Step
● Focus Groups
● Analysis and deep dive into metrics and needs

11. Identify & Diagnose
Stages

12. Formal VS. Informal Training

13. Poll Question #2
What types of training & development programs do you
offer?
a. Mentor programs
b. Job specific training paths & curriculums
c. Stretch assignments
d. Apprenticeships
e. Executive learning

14. Formal Programs

15. Formal Programs:
Craft Development Loop

16. Formal Programs

17. Formal Programs

18. Informal Programs
Book Club Mentoring Stretch
Assignment

19. Plan & Ponder
● Work with competitors and community
● Impacts the entire market
● Benefits the whole

20. Measuring Results
● Completion Rate
● Graduate turnover and retention rates
● Revenue per employee
● Changes in pay rate per graduate

21. Poll Question #3
What stage are you in developing your Training and
Development programs?
a. Identify & Diagnose
b. Describe & Define
c. Plan & Ponder
d. Test & Refine
e. Action

22. Program Development
● Need Exists
● Fill the Gaps
● Develop the
Program
● Make it Scalable
● Make it
Sustainable

23. Action
● Work with your leadership team to make sure
programs align with larger business objectives.
● Keep your target audience in mind when
developing programs and be flexible in delivery of
programs.
● Make sure training is integrated into workflow by
building skills and knowledge around individual and
team goals that seek to align with corporate
strategy.

24. Questions?

25. This webinar is pre-approved for
1.0 business HRCI and
SHRM credits.

26. Thank you to our Sponsor!
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Jason Arnold
Leadership Solutions
Linkedin.com/in/jdiamondarnold
inspiresoftware.com

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Speakers Resources
Jessica Miller-Merrell
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Elizabeth Beckham
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@enbeckham
Best Practices For Training & Development
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List of Companies with Mentorship Programs
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