How Great Companies Help Their People Grow

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Career development is one the most powerful and underutilized levers leaders have to drive engagement, retention, and results.’

‘A few minutes of conversation can help others slow down enough to reflect, bring deep insights to the surface, verbalize important messages, and consider how to leverage their expanding skills and knowledge base.’

Scale experiences based on your sphere of influence, organizational needs, and what employees want to achieve.’

‘Opportunity-minded managers envision and enable possibility-advancing circumstances with employees- through conversation.’

‘Careers are developed one conversation at a time … over time.’

‘When you reframe development as co-creating enriching experiences, you widen the lens of possibilities and allow your people to grow right where they are.’

‘Leaders have to help employees see that it’s not down shifting. It’s just changing lanes, sometimes avoiding the traffic, and seeing new scenery in the process.’

‘The career-climbing wall is expansive, offering a wide selection of spots to explore and enjoy, and a nearly unlimited combination of moves in every direction- around, up, over, and down toward one’s vision of career success.’

‘Give employees a visceral, first-hand foresight experience by allowing them to interact directly with the changing business environment.’

‘Anytime is a great time for a hindsight conversation.’

‘Your employees’ ability to take satisfying and productive steps toward career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.’

Source:

Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni (2024). Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Still Want

How Great Managers Make Management Work For Them

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‘You must turn your vision into their reality.’

‘Appeal to the heart to make the vision a reality.’

‘If you don’t support the vision, why should your employees?’

‘A goal that is too high is a warning sign that the person who set it is not truly committed to attaining it.’

‘Set subgoals as stepping-stones toward the final goal.’

Don’t seek input from subordinates unless you intend to take feedback seriously.’

‘You need to sell your organization’s values to your people.’

‘Emphasize that errors lead to learning successes, not performance failures.’

‘Give people the training and resources they need and then turn them loose.’

‘Teach your team to believe they can succeed.’

‘Your job is to help people break the ‘I can’t do it’ cycle.’

‘The behaviours you appraise should be critical to strategy execution.’

Source:

Gary P. Latham (2018). Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager: Making the Science of Management Work for You (Second Edition)