Developing your Employees Career

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Developing Your Employees Career

Leadership BuyDesign

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Agenda Career Development – Importance, roles and

responsibilities and the basics of career evolution.

Types of development and considerations when choosing development activities.

SWOT Personal assessment activity and discussion on other potential tools.

Holding a career conversation using the GROW coaching methodology.

Career Coaching Skills – Cultivating a rapport to enhance the conversation.

Skill Practice – Coaching your colleague.

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Importance of Career Development Why is Career Development important in

general and specifically to your organization’s strategy?

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Career Development Steps & Roles

Step 1Determine Where You Want to Go

Step 2Identify Strengths and Development

Step 3Make a Career

Development Plan

Step 4Execute Your Plan

Manager Supports

Employees Throughout the

Steps.

Development must be organizationally supported, management facilitated and employee driven.

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Three Types of Career Development

Training Social Experience

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Why On the Job (Experiential) Learning?

When you consider that we remember:

20% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we see, hear and discuss 90% of what we see, hear, discuss and practice

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Turning a Work Experience into a Developmental Activity

Place a check mark beside all of those experiences that you have personally faced in the past 3 months.

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Business Goals vs. Career Goals

• Annual Deliverables• Financial GoalsBusiness Goals

• Role Growth• EnagementCareer Goals

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SWOT Analysis – Assessment Tool

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Strengths

Opportunities

-Weaknesse

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Threats

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Career Development

Assess • Assessment

tools like SWOT Analysis Feeds into Development Planning

Plan• Education• Experience• Depth• Breadth• Technical• Professional

Document• Create and

document a plan for employee development

• Revisit throughout the year.

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How Do I Have a Career

Conversation?

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Career Conversations / Coaching

TrainingTell

MentoringTell/Ask

CoachingAsk/Tell

DelegationAsk

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Listening Exercise

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Skill Practices

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Wrap-Up

What is the major takeaway or learning you have from today?