An Intensive 3-day Training Course
Career Path Planning
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Why Choose this Training Course?
Career-Path Planning is a process that lays out positions within the hierarchy of the organisation and identifies time in position, education and certification requirements for promotional consideration, is an essential component of the Succession Planning process. It is also related to the concept of Talent Management. Overall this fits within the broader HR concept of People Resourcing.
The purpose of this course is to provide delegates with an overview of Career Path Planning, Succession Planning and Talent Management. Specifically it addresses the following questions:
- What is Career-Path Planning?
- What does the ‘best practice’ literature tell us about Career-Path Planning
- How do we identify the criteria for a Career-Path Plan
- What, if any, are the models available for Career-Path Planning?
- What, if any, are the criteria and models being used by other organisations?
Appropriate job selection and resourcing largely determine successful career development. Recruiting the right people is essential to the successful development of any organisation, however the process is costly both in terms of time and resources and it is therefore critical that the right candidate is appointed first time.
Related to Career-Path Planning is the important area of employee retention. This course will also cover the tools and ideas to learn employee retention strategies that will help you retain your best staff.
What are the Goals?
This course aims to provide concise, comprehensive coverage of Career-Path Planning, Succession Planning and Talent Management. By the end of this course participants should be able to:
- Explain fundamental principles of the Career-Path Planning
- Understand Succession Planning and Talent Management techniques
- Apply themselves in the role of a Career-Path Planner
- Describe the latest thinking in Career-Path Planning
- Identify personal development requirements
How will this Training Course be Presented?
There will be interesting and dynamic presentations supporting each of the topics together with interactive trainer lead sessions of discussion. There will also be practical sessions where participants have the opportunity to practice and experience some Career Path Planning related activities. Case studies, DVD’s, small group work, exercises and feedback will be used to facilitate learning.
Daily Agenda
Day One: The Basics of Career-Path Planning
- Introduction and objectives
- Employee Resourcing in Context
- Talent management - explored
- Succession planning
- Nationalisation issues
- Fundamental principles of the Career-Path Planning
- The latest thinking in Career-Path Planning
- Models available for Career-Path Planning
Day Two: People Resourcing Key Issues
- Introducing the recruitment & selection process
- The process of interviewing – the questioning process
- How to sell the company and be a model PR person throughout the interview
- Writing the job advert – advertising best practice
- The techniques of conducting a professional interview – room layout, positioning, how to structure the panel etc.
- Techniques to improve the decision making process
- Retention methods – what HR research tells us
- How Resourcing fits into the Career-Path Planning Process
Day Three: Motivational Interviewing and the Use of Specialist Resourcing Tools
- Motivational Interviewing - Coaching
- Mentoring Approaches
- The use of psychometrics and personality testing
- Forer Effect – what it means for you
- Cultural issues in testing
- The anatomy of an Assessment Centre
- Practical exercises for assessment center assessment
- Career-Path Planning for Generation ‘X’ & ‘Y’ (the future)
Certificate
- On successful completion of this Training Course / Online Training Course, a PetroKnowledge Certificate / E-Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
