From the course: Having Career Conversations with Your Team

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How to launch career conversations with your team

How to launch career conversations with your team

From the course: Having Career Conversations with Your Team

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How to launch career conversations with your team

- There are several ways to create a strong culture that emphasizes openness and engagement, casual conversations during regular one on ones and informal movements throughout the year and structured annual career conversations. First, you can use the pivot method as a way to talk about career development when having one-on-one conversations with your team members. In its quickest form, share the basic premise. Double down on what's working to pivot toward what's next within their role, within the team or the company. Turn existing strengths and interests into related opportunities, and help people shift incrementally, instead of aiming too far ahead to dramatic career turns that are too sharp or too far from their foundation of strengths and interests. Share the basketball player analogy. Help your team member focus on their strengths and interests, plant foot, to scan for new opportunities, pivot foot. There, together,…

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