1. Steps to develop this attitude in every employee in the building
“I Wanna Go to Work!”
Steps to develop this attitude in every employee in the building

2. Capitalizing on potential You’ve already spent the time and money to hire an employee. It only makes sense to continue training and developing them to make the most of your current resources.
What is development?
What is a positive climate?
“Development refers to formal education, job experiences, relationships and assessments of personality and skills that help employees prepare for the future”
Positive climate is “a condition in which positive emotions predominate over negative emotions in the work environment.” A leader can help to enable a positive climate in the workplace by emphasizing positive opportunities and relationships rather than fixating on the negative or problematic.
Noe, R. A. (2013). Employee training and development (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
Pace, A. (2010). UNLEASHING POSITIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE. T+D, 64(1),

3. So many options! But let’s zone in on just a few…
Training and development come in many forms so sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Employees at this company have described the following as the most desirable means of personal development…
Job rotation
Formal education programs
Successional planning

4. Job rotation
This refers to giving an employee “ a series of job assignments in various functional areas of the company or movement among jobs in a single functional area or department” (Noe, 389)

5. Formal education programs
Engagement in “formal education programs” which “include off-site and on-site” programs designed specifically for the company’s employees, short courses offered by consultants or universities” (Noe, 376)

6. Succession planning How?
This type of training refers to “identifying, evaluating, developing and tracking high potential employees who are capable of moving in to higher-level managerial positions”
How?
Identify positions to include
Identify employees to participate
Identify evaluation criteria that is most critical
Link the plan with all applicable departments (HR, Benefits, Training, etc)
Determine and deliver feedback*
*Step 5 is most critical, as all other steps will be moot if the plan is not culminated with positive outcomes and results.

7. What’s in it for you?
A publication from the University of Minnesota cites that…
“review of research literature in 2003 supported the commonly held belief that employee development programs make positive contributions to organizational performance. A more highly skilled workforce can accomplish more as the individuals gain in experience and knowledge”
“retaining an employee saves the organization a great deal of money”.
University of Minnesota (Office of Human Resources): Employee Development (2009). Located at