Grow your talent
work with us: Looking to have the
best employees?

Develop them to meet both their career goals and the goals of the organization.

Employees commit to organizations that commit to them. Investing in your people is more than setting aside a training budget. Successful businesses place a high priority on developing their staff through coaching, feedback, stretch assignments, exposure, and aligning employee career goals with the needs of the organization. People want to contribute and feel valued. They want to learn and grow. Most importantly, they want to know it is safe to “fail forward” in their attempts to do better, do more, do different.
Work with us to clarify your organization’s learning philosophy and define the necessary
competencies for your people to excel.

Through our Grow your Talent service, we help you develop an employee development strategy that meets the needs of your people and your organization.

Competitive advantage includes exploring the skills you need for tomorrow and starting the work today in building those capabilities.

York Regional Police developed
a pipeline of leaders.

We partnered with them to enhance their already successful middle-leadership development program by designing and implementing “book-end” leadership programs at both their executive and new-to-management levels.
This “stacked” approach allowed continuity in leadership expectations read case study

There is no greater role for leaders than to grow and develop their people.

Your job as leader is to relentlessly pursue the excellence within each of your employees through horizontal and vertical development.
Horizontal development involves adding and enhancing knowledge, skills, and competencies. It’s about transfer of information, therefore what your people know.
Vertical development on the other hand is the advancement of your people’s thinking capability – deliberately developing people to think in more complex, systemic, strategic and independent ways. It is about expanding how your people think about what they are thinking about.

Employee growth and development is about having both the skills and competencies to get the work done, and the ability to think wisely and adaptively about the work.

First, leaders must determine the competencies, the horizonal plain – skills and behaviours – critical for the success of their business. Competitive advantage of business strategy traditionally focuses on one of three pursuits:
Operational Excellence, Research and Development, or Customer Service. Best practice is to be excellent at one, good at the others. But what does it mean to be Operationally Excellent, for example? What do you and your people need to be excellent at?
Second, leaders must take an active role in developing people’s ability to think more critically through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and an environment conducive to “fail forward” so long as critical and adaptive learning is taking place. In other word, a culture of Growth Mindset. It requires leaders to consciously shift from “doers” to “delegators”, with an emphasis on delegation for growth. Both leader and employee development are critical.
Workfactors is certified and experienced in facilitating competency reviews, selection, and alignment within critical human resource practices. We are seasoned adult educators and organizational development practitioners.
Our process supports the desired outcomes of Align your Business and facilitates our Master your Context services. Our facilitated process
provides you:

• Competency behaviour build-out
• Learning and Development strategy
• Succession Planning (Identification and Calibration processes)
• Performance Management

We bring strategy to life by clarifying and deepening the skills
and behaviours necessary for your organization to succeed.
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