The responsibility of every organization and leader is to bring out the best in your staff.  This benefits the employee, those they serve, and your ultimate results. The only way to sustainably achieve this is to consistently support their growth in the ways that matter most.  

World-class organizations understand that development is more than a promotion or the next position.  It’s about expanding employee abilities and talents by challenging them to think more strategically, take appropriately bold risks, and develop themselves – which naturally brings value to the overall organization.  

Having effective development conversations is a vital skill, requiring a proven framework and effective techniques to enhance awareness and inspire productive action on behalf of each employee. Organizations that consistently grow do so by growing the capabilities of their workforce – coaching employees to optimize their potential and develop relevant skills that benefits everyone involved.

“A healthy career discussion rarely happens all at once. Instead, it is a product of many different times.” –Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules

The Most Effective Career Conversations Are 360 Degrees!

Ask Yourself

  • Whose responsibility is it to take charge of one’s career?
  • Why should an organization initiate hosting career conversations?
  • Who is involved with a career conversations?
  • How do you best set up career conversations for success?
  • What happens when promotions or other opportunities can’t be offered? How do you host those difficult conversations?
  • How can you increase employee engagement with career conversations?

Topics Explored

The following strategic insights and practical tools are proven best practices by world-class organizations on transformational career conversations:

Why Career Conversations Matter –  The responsibility of every organization and leader is to bring out the best in your staff. The only way to achieve this is to continually support their growth as employees – and as people. Discover the often overlooked benefits of effective career conversations.

Career Conversations are Formal & Informal –  We explore the multi-faceted options for engaging in these conversations and how to optimize both approaches.

Career Conversations are Full Circle –  With the right tools, every person in your organization can play an important role in hosting career conversations. Embracing multiple layers of perspectives adds tremendous additional insights.

The Need for Career Conversations – Leading organizations have discovered that effective career conversations tie directly to the five most essential needs identified by social scientists. By including popular tools (like Gallup’s Q12) these conversations can also realize enhanced employee engagement.

Career Conversation Components – Explore in depth the three proven key components of setting up, hosting and following up on each career conversation exchange.

Best Practices of Successful Conversations – Discover the “behind-the-scenes” best practices for career conversations that work in the “real world” of every industry – optimizing results, even when the circumstances are far from optimal.

Hosting Difficult Conversations –  Using the G.R.O.W. tool used at leading organizations, we explore how to host difficult conversations – identifying effective options for sharing difficult news as well as identifying how to best “agree to disagree”.

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