Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Why should you be interested in career development for the technical professionals you supervise? Because it's good for them, good for your company, and good for you. One of your major challenges as a manager of technical people is retaining them. And you may also need to recruit technical people to fill higher-level positions in your company. This course will help you use career development as a technique to both motivate and retain technical professionals, as well as to place some of them on career paths that will help your company fill its most highly skilled and senior positions. You will learn how to recognize and avoid barriers to career development, how to analyze individuals' career development needs, how to determine appropriate career development roles, and how to use various career planning development tools.

Target Audience
This course is designed for middle- and upper-level managers who manage technical professionals.

Expected Duration (hours)
3.5

Lesson Objectives

Planning a Technical Professional's Career Path

recognize the benefits in creating career plans for technical professionals.

identify examples of barriers to career plan development.

analyze the career development needs of a given employee in a specific situation.

Roles in Career Plan Development

recognize the benefits of having the manager, organization, and professional involved in career plan development.

select examples of factors in an organization that influence a professional's motivation for career planning.

apply the appropriate steps a manager should take to assist in career planning for a technical professional.

select actions a professional can take to facilitate career planning.

Developing a Career Plan

recognize the benefits of developing career plans for technical professionals.

identify appropriate performance evaluation tools for use in the career planning process.

select the appropriate career plan goals for a given situation.

match the different types of training used in career development plans to corresponding examples.

apply the appropriate steps to develop a career plan, based on a given situation.

Course Number:
MGMT0294