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

Why Ideas Are Not Enough

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‘We can create new realities for ourselves, but only when we let go of the ideas that we’re uniquely defective.’

‘Many of us have poor team alignment not because the people on our team are in conflict but because we’re not communicating to our team what we want, need, and dream to be.’

‘The more an idea matters to you, the more you’ll thrash, precisely because its success or failure is deeply important to you.’

‘Not doing your best work leads to creative constipation- at a certain point, you’re too toxic to take new ideas in because you’re not getting them out.’

‘The nature of our best work is that we’re never done, and many of us create work and projects that carry on even after our death. The finish of one project is just the start of many others.’

‘You have to let go of projects and ideas that aren’t allowing you to thrive so you can trade up to the projects that do.’

‘If a project doesn’t have start and completion dates, it’s not likely that it’s going to get done.’

‘It’s easy to see what led to the big win when you have been celebrating and keeping up with all the small wins along the way.’

‘People, in handling affairs,

Often come close to completion and fail

If they are as careful in the end as the beginning

Then they would have no failure.’

‘The more it matters to you, the greater the need for downtime and transition time after finishing your project.’

‘Every best-work project you finish leaves more of your fingerprints on the universe.’

Source:

Charlie Gilkey (2019). Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done