Three Types Of Development

The answer when people ask me, "Are Professional Development, Management Development and Leadership Development the same thing?"

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Types of Development
There are 3 kinds of Development:
•Management Development
•Professional Development
•Leadership Development
At some point in every career path the employee should
experience each of these types of development.

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Management Development
Management development provides skills that managers in
all areas – accounting, marketing, manufacturing,
information technology and HR – need. Those skills
include the following:
•Meeting planning and facilitation
•Relationship building
•Communications
–Listening and Persuading
–Presentations
–Business writing
•Building and managing teams
•Managing change
•Decision-making and delegation

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Professional Development
Professional development builds skills that individuals
need to be a better whatever-their-role is (engineer,
programmer, trainer, accountant etc.) Some technical
skills are taught in classes, however much of professional
development is done outside classrooms in:
•Professional organizations
•Conferences (industry or specialty area)
•Benchmarking
•Developmental assignments
•Mentoring programs
•Rotations in other functional areas
•Technical, hands-on on-the-job training

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Leadership Development
Leadership development builds skills that individuals need
to articulate their vision to groups of people, to inspire
them to follow the vision, to gain the "above and beyond"
effort from people that can only come voluntarily. The
skills needed that can be taught include:
•Credibility
•Crucial conversations – how to keep a situation under control when
emotions run strong, opinions vary and stakes are high
•Servant leadership
•Relationship management
•Results without authority