Objectives and measures of personnel development need to be put into direct relation to the strategy and the current situation of the enterprise. Today, personnel developers are not merely responsible for training staff but rather see themselves as a strategic corporate unit, which plays a decisive role in the development of the company.
Personnel developers face the complex task of assisting and co-creating change processes within the corporation. Their role today encompasses the design and facilitation of management training as well as giving impulses to and being a feedback partner for the executive management. A basic prerequisite for that is a trustful relationship between the personnel development unit and the executive management, as well as a close cooperation with the personnel management of the company.