Welcome to the Corporate Training Warehouse's page on development planning.

Our mission is to help companies achieve their development goals.

The first step, of course, is to define the goals, and it might help to define your company's goals by considering how other companies are transforming themselves today in response to market forces and employee expectations. The results from two recent studies provide a good development benchmark.

In the first study CEOs were asked what factors underpinned commercial success. Their answers were unequivecol:

and, of particular relevance

This last factor was considered an essential prerequisite to a company being able to innovate, respond rapidly to change and unleash the potential in its human resource.

In the second study, employees were asked what they want from work. Motivated by independence and an increasing sense of self-worth, it seems that staff now expect their employer to provide:

The impact of these drivers and enablers is clear: career structures and work patterns must change, and development must be planned and managed as a holistic and strategically-integrated process.

The question is, how focused are the development goals and employee development opportunities in your company?

To help you to quantify the answer, you might want to download and fill in our climate check list.

Simply click on whichever box represents the environment in your company today: a Red box means this doesn't exist; an Amber box means it exists but is not well communicated, understood or practised; and a Green box means it is communicated, understood and practised well by everyone, or by those who are accountable for it.