The article deals with the monitoring of personnel development of an innovatively active enterprise as an essential component of personnel management. The paper presents the principles of monitoring staff development such as comprehensiveness, relevance, timeliness, acceptability, dynamism, evidence, flexibility, systematicity, comprehensiveness, independence and objectivity. Under the monitoring of personnel development it is advisable to understand a specially organized, systematic monitoring of the state of personnel development of the enterprise in order to assess and adjust its quality characteristics. Any monitoring is characterized by its own parameters. Based on the classification of costs, the main parameters of personnel development monitoring are determined, which include the scope of the goal, the stage of implementation of management, frequency, form of organization, type of information used; implementation methods. When forming the strategy of the enterprise it is a question of strategic monitoring of personnel development. If it is necessary to assess the situation for a certain period of time, or at the end of some activities, we need to talk about tactical monitoring. When it comes to assessing the development of employees, it is worth talking about operational monitoring. All these parameters create the contours of monitoring the development of personnel development, but the content depends on the structure, ie on what exactly is embedded in the concept of personnel development and personnel development management. The key areas of monitoring are identified in accordance with the understanding of staff development as a combination of professional, social and personal. Professional development of staff takes place in the process of acquiring skills and abilities, as well as direct training and is to reveal his professional potential. It is worth noting that the purpose of professional development is the accumulation of potential, not just its disclosure, ie activation. In turn, professional potential consists of qualification, psychophysiological, personal. Thus for development of the personnel of the innovatively active enterprise development of all directions is important. Monitoring of personnel development should be carried out comprehensively, taking into account the need for development not only of qualification characteristics, but also of values, stability and adaptability of employees to environmental conditions.