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AJ6 Develop teams and individuals

AJ6.1 Identify the development needs of teams and individuals

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. giving opportunities to team members to help identify their own development needs and those of the team as a whole
2. identifying development needs accurately and basing your decisions on sufficient reliable and valid information
3. identifying development needs for all the personnel you are responsible for
4. where required, seeking guidance from competent specialists
5. providing information on development needs to authorised people only, in the format required and to agreed deadlines
6. ensuring that your records of identified development needs comply with organisational procedures.

Occupational Context

1. Development needs
   • to meet organisational objectives
   • to meet individual aspirations
2. Types of personnel
   • internal
   • external
   • permanent
   • temporary
   • full-time
   • part-time
   • paid
   • voluntary

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• Present development needs to relevant people in a way which is likely to influence their decision-making positively.
• Collect and validate the information you need to identify development needs
• Encourage and enable team members to identify development needs.
• Identify development needs for your team and the information needed to do so

You need to know about:

Continuous improvement

• The importance of human resource development to organisational effectiveness.

Equal opportunities

• The importance of equality of opportunity in human resource development.

Information handling

• The importance of good record keeping.

Involvement and motivation

• The importance of providing your team members with opportunities to identify their own development needs and those of the team as a whole

Organisational context

• The team objectives and organisational values which have a bearing on the identification of training needs

Training and development

• The types of support and guidance which may be needed from specialists and how to get them

Required Skills

• N/A

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can identify the development needs of teams and individuals

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• identify the development needs of teams and individuals

Observation of the candidate or witness testimony will be essential as evidence of performance

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in developing teams and individuals for a diverse range of activities

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