Human Resource Development (HRD) is the framework for helping
employees develop their personal and organizational skills, knowledge,
and abilities by UNESCO-UNEVOC.
Human Resource Development includes such opportunities as employee training, employee career development, performance management and development, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, key employee identification, tuition assistance, and organization development.
The focus of all aspects of Human Resource Development is on developing the most superior workforce so that the organization and individual employees can accomplish their work goals in service to customers.
Human Resource Development can be formal such as in classroom training, a college course, or an organizational planned change effort. Or, Human Resource Development can be informal as in employee coaching by a manager. Healthy organizations believe in Human Resource Development and cover all of these bases...
Coaching StepsUse these steps in effective and supportive coaching.
Show confidence in the employee's ability and willingness to solve the problem. Ask him or her for help in solving the problem.Describe the performance problem. Focus on the problem or behavior that needs improvement, not the person. Ask for the employee's view of the situation.
Determine whether issues exist that limit the employee's ability to perform the task or accomplish the objective. Four common barriers are time, training, tools, and temperament. Determine how to remove these barriers.
Discuss potential solutions to the problem or improvement actions to take. Ask the employee for ideas on how to correct the problem, or prevent it from happening again.
Source: UNESCO-UNEVOC