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1. What is Organizational Development and Training?

a. Organizational Development covers the entire organization when it comes to performance management, workforce planning that includes training and succession planning.

b. Succession planning helps current department leaders identify potential leaders and create a pathway toward obtaining supervisory positions within the City of Fort Myers.

c. Use the NeoGov Perform and Learn systems to track the evaluation process of all employees in the City and to assign training that allows further compliance and development.

2. What is succession planning?

a. When employees in leadership positions are ready to retire or otherwise have left the organization, it is optimal for the organization to have identified and developed several high potential leaders to replace outgoing leaders in the organization.

b. Planning on who that person may be with proper training and development beyond normal work tasks, requires leadership engagement into the development of those high potential employees.

3. What if I want to be a supervisor, but am not being developed after I make the request, what should I do?

a. Make an appointment with your supervisor and explain that you want to be considered for higher level positions and discuss what the next steps are.

b. Ask that you be given an opportunity to gain supervisory skills through an enhanced development plan that can be tracked in NeoGov Perform.

c. Ask your supervisor what the process is and if you need further assistance and information about this pathway, you can make an appointment to see Bill Thompson, who is the Organizational Development and Training Analyst for the CFM, located in the HR department. His contact information is on the Organizational Development and Training page of the Human Resources website.

4. I am a supervisor and I do not know how to identify potential, future supervisors. Who do I contact for help?

a. Please contact Bill Thompson, who is the Organizational Development and Training Analyst for the CFM, located in the HR department and make an appointment. His contact information is on the Organizational Development and Training page of the Human Resources website.

5. I am a supervisor and I want to assign goals for an employee but am not sure of what goals I need to assign or how to make it fair for multiple employees.

a. It is important to note that if you have multiple employees with the same job title and responsibilities, that all goals be uniform. You want to be consistent in goal assignment as you will need to review all employees of the same job title to measure differences in performance. This gives you a better assessment of how to rate the employee in a fair and equitable manner.

b. If you have employees with different job titles and responsibilities, you can assign established goals that built into NeoGov, or you can create personalized goals.  It is suggested that you keep all common goals the same for all employees, regardless of skill sets or job titles.

c. If you need more assistance, please contact Bill Thompson, who is the Organizational Development and Training Analyst for the CFM, located in the HR department and make an appointment. His contact information is on the Organizational Development and Training page of the Human Resources website