Training & Professional Development

Thoughts and ideas from ITLP participants regarding training and professional development:

• Bring training to the staff
• Schedule early
• Work with the training units to tailor professional development needs to staff requirements
• Talk to the training folks!
• Customize general offerings
• Let others know about what has been done in your area to provide ideas and inspiration
• Collect successes
• Relate competencies to jobs
• Regularly communicate professional development and training opportunities
• Tie training to a plan
• Share training information and experiences
• Have post training "show and tells" to share what you learned
• Develop a professional development positive culture
• Professional development is part of succession planning
• Have staff think about opportunities but be careful of the message as to not turn training into disconnected entitlements, strange rewards, etc.
• Align training to career goals
• Professional development should be continuous
• Training should have continuity
• Follow-up and follow-through as appropriate to make sure people apply what they've learned
• Encourage short write-ups of experiences that all can see such as on a wiki