The best talent is focused on advancing their careers — and always looking for ways to sharpen and improve their skills. Retention research indicates that individuals tend to stay longer where they are experiencing personal and professional growth.

Employee career and development plans are an essential part of enhancing the workplace environment. For employees to prosper and grow they need to be motivated and encouraged to reach their full potential. These learning and development opportunities cover many different aspects of development, including, but not limited to, project management, specific product information, leadership development and professional and technical skills enhancement.

SuccessFactors Career and Development Planning identifies competency gaps and helps you formulate appropriate career development goals leading to greater success for your company.

• Strengthens collaboration. Increase employee engagement and retention by having managers and staff create career development goals together.
• Boosts performance. Tie learning activities directly to performance reviews.
• Improves metrics tracking. Monitor post-learning performance closely to determine how specific training has impacted individual growth.
• Saves on training costs. Eliminate costly, non-strategic training by aligning learning activities with performance needs and strategic goals.

Whether it is pushing your "A" players or helping the "B" team take their game to the next level, career development is one of the critical keys to retaining your high-potential employees. Find out how Career and  Development Planning and the rest of our integrated suite of Business Execution solutions can help your organization create a motivated workforce and dramatically improve your alignment, execution, performance and results.