As I mentioned in the previous post, I’ve selected three very broad stages of employee development: 

• The New Employee 

• An employee in their role for about one year        

• Seasoned employee…knows how to perform their roles

Most employees start out as a new employee, develop competency in their roles, and then move forward to the expert stage.  As you work with employees on development, it can be helpful to look at the stage they are in to appropriately plan with them their career development.

Keeping your talent is one of your main responsibilities as a manager…you are measured by your ability to handle this important function within the company. Losing people doesn’t have to be inevitable even for positions that traditionally have large turnover.

This is such a broad subject because each person has different needs within the work environment. So how do you as their manager satisfy all those needs in order to meet your business objectives? I’ve broken this topic down into three main topic areas:

· The New Employee
· In their role for about one year
· Seasoned employee…knows how to perform their role and is contributing successfully