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Coaching employees toward pilots and small experiments for their next career moves

Coaching employees toward pilots and small experiments for their next career moves

From the course: Having Career Conversations with Your Team

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Coaching employees toward pilots and small experiments for their next career moves

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- The third stage of the Pivot Method is pilot. Small, low-risk career experiments to test new directions, even within the person's role. Pilots help gather realtime data and feedback, allowing you and your employees to adjust incrementally as you go, without trying to solve their entire career pivot or development areas up front. A good pilot or stretch project will help the person test three Es. Do they enjoy this area? Can they become an expert at it? And is there room to expand? Either within their role, the team, or the organization, more broadly. Think about racehorses at the Kentucky Derby. Your job is not to know which of the horses is going to win. You just line them up at the starting gate, lift the gates, and say go! In a similar fashion, pilots will show you and your employee which ones are working, which ones gain momentum and traction on their own. Based on what you uncovered together, during the…

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