You understand the benefits of developing your employees and you’ve allocated a learning and development budget. But how do you decide which development methods you should be using, and where you should be investing your budget?

Learning and development is about more than sending your employees on training courses. There are a huge number of methods that you can use to help your employees to develop their skills and knowledge, including:

  • Apprenticeships
  • Accredited training courses and professional qualifications
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Formal talent programmes
  • Online learning
  • Project experience
  • Secondment
  • Shadowing
  • Short courses

The method that you choose will have a significant impact on the outcomes of the training activity. Taking a step back and thinking creatively about the best ways to develop your staff will ensure that you get a much better return on your training investment,

Development activities comparison chart

The success of any learning and development activity will be impacted by the method chosen to deliver that activity, and there are a huge number of methods that you can choose from. This chart compares a number of different methods that you can use to help your employees to develop their skills and knowledge and identifies the key considerations for each.

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Learning and Development methods comparison chart

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