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It can prepare them for a leadership position or prepare amore senior professional for a position in other departments.  \n5 6  \nWhat’s The Plan  \n7 8  \nSteps  \n• Goals  \n• Desired outcome  \n• Strategy  \n• Action  \n• Results  \n• Assessments  \n• Training versus Development  \nBenefits of a work development plan  \n• Helps the company attract qualified career candidates  \n• Improves company engagement  \n• Improves worker performance  \n• Improve the company's operations and business performance  \n• Guide the company towards future goals  \n9 10  \nHow to create a work development plan?  \n• Set goals  \n• When creating a work development plan, consider the major milestones or goals the staff has in mind.  \n• Conduct a skills gap analysis  \n• The professional's skill proficiency  \n• The professional's frequency of skills usage  \n• Level of professional's skills important to job performance  \n• Choose the right training option  \n• When a team member's confidence increases, they are likely to perform better at work.  \n11 12  \n13 14  \nCreate a development plan…  \nA great plan is a recipe for success  \nIdentify Key Tasks – what/why is it important?  \n• What is important?  \n• Why is it necessary?  \n• What is nice to have  \n• Is cross training an option?  \n• What are our showstoppers?  \n15 16  \nUnderstanding the different learning styles  \n• Everyone learns differently  \n• Assess the employees  \n• Do your best to meet them at their learning levels  \n• The better the training, the better the outcome  \n• Get feedback throughout the training  \nTypes of Vision Therapy-Bing images  \n17 18  \nThe Start  \n• Do not fail here…could be catalyst to success/disaster  \n• Be specific…pay, training, vacation  \n• Give a probationary period…120 days  \n• Have a signed agreement  \n• Talk about what you expect…know what is important to your practice…dress, appearance, language, time off  \n• Ask what they expect  \n• Ask about personal goals…listen carefully  \nMust Gain Staff Buy-In  \n• What do workers value?  \n• Communicate with the staff, you must them  \n• Hiring process  \n• Create clear steps/pathway  \n• Professional  \n• Career Development  \n• Strategic planning  \nWhy You Need A Staff Development Plan  \n• Types of training  \n• Orientation  \n• Induction  \n• Just In Time  \n• Inservice  \n• Continuing Education  \n• Special Function  \n19 20  \nWhat happens when you fail to train them?  \n• Chaos  \n• No consistency  \n• Threat to the practice (HIPAA, OSHA, Fraud, etc. )  \n• Threat to patient care  \n• Hinderance to team building  \n• Increase in turnover  \n• Training for your competition  \n21 22  \nDeveloping Performance Standards  \n• Performance standards are really just the end result of a multi-step process. 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