In the tutorial dedicated to the development of labor potential are considered problems of formation and use of labor potential at various levels (from the individual worker to society as a whole), the realization of the potential of certain population groups (such as women, youth, the elderly and the disabled), the influence of individual components on the development of labor potential (education, health, employment), barriers to the development of labor potential (emotional burnout, mobbing, discrimination); Russian and international experience of development of labor potential.