Community Forum – What do your company’s upskilling and professional development efforts look like? (Part 1 of 2)

A: What do your company’s upskilling and professional development efforts look like? (Part 1 of 2)

IRI is doing a study on current upskilling and professional development practices, aiming to understand the current state of practices in member companies.  In Q3, we will release a full report showcasing best practices as well as profiles of two companies that are ahead of the curve.   

Responses are below.

Community Responses

Other

• Financial acumen

Other

• Part of each employee’s Career Development Plan
• Conversations between employee and manager

Other

• Give people a travel and training budget.  Let them manage.
• Company pays for training desired by employees for development.
• In conversations between employees and manager on career planning and growth.
• Part of ongoing personal and career development discussions.
  

How?

• Expectations to write technical reports at project closing, training and process provided for these reports.
• There are required pathways for collection and dissemination of knowledge.
• There are internal classes on product and process technology areas relevant to different jobs.
• Specific technical skills are spelled out in performance goal planning documents when necessary.
• Knowledge management is a focus area for us.

Other

• General information training
• Email sent to relevant orgs on training and any individual can sign up.

Other

• Lunch and Learn meetings
• Trip reports or knowledge sharing
• As part of person-to-person collaboration