Overview
As with any major consulting diagnosis, it is important to ‘begin with the end in mind’ – fully scoping out the work and its boundaries, identifying stakeholders and outputs, to ensure project success. Similarly, your firm’s approach to professional development must align with your culture and strategic objectives to achieve sustainable behavioural change.
Therefore, Openside’s diagnostic process – Aligning Development with Strategy – ensures a direct link between your desired strategic position and the skills and behaviours needed to achieve it. Furthermore, it is essential that learning and development programmes embody and reinforce your culture, are driven by your firm’s values and also take into account your firm-wide strengths and weaknesses.
How the Process Works
Identify critical skills
and behaviours
Step 1
Determine strategic positioning
Step 2
Define skill set requirements
Step 3
Determine core behaviours aligned to skill sets
Firmwide
analysis
Step 4
Analyse performance management data
Step 5
Identify firmwide strengths and weaknesses
Step 6
Create firmwide development plan and core curriculum
Individual development
plans
Step 7
Revisit performance management data at individual level
Step 8
Create individual professional development plans
Step 9
Establish Academy or integrate with existing models
We begin by working with you to understand your firm’s context. Through a series of discussions and interviews we jointly define or confirm your desired culture, strategic plan and growth objectives while also discussing the behaviours, skills and processes required for delivery success. These discussions will inform your professional development strategy and crucially, how behaviours, skills and processes should be learned and embodied in every interaction.
Having defined the context, we then move to the next stage, which is to design and deliver role-related competency frameworks and supporting learning and development programmes within a curriculum tailored to your specific needs.
The programmes and competency frameworks developed can then be integrated, where appropriate, with existing approaches to learning and development within your organisation. Alternatively, where necessary we can develop an ‘Academy’ model for you from the ground up.
After each programme delivery, we also help you ensure that the learning is used, shared and exemplified beyond the learning event, for example by using a combination of coaching, mentoring, virtual refresher sessions, eLearning and use of our online training impact assessment tool ‘Vienna’.
Finally, if you would like to find out how the Openside approach to Aligning Development with Strategy can help you develop your firm’s strategy for learning and development, please contact us directly.
Talent Development Pathway Tool
Ensure your development pathway is aligned to the strategic position of the firm and integrates at every level.
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