The Core Ways to Cultivate Everyday Career Development - PDF document

The Core Ways to Cultivate Everyday Career Development Development drives engagement, which in turn inspires motivation, eort, and smarter thinking—keys to competitive edge and organizational longevity. Yet negative myths about development—it takes too much time, employees are responsible for their own growth—often keep career development from being a rst-line priority for managers. In today’s workplace, if your employees aren’t growing, they’re going. That means nding a new job or, worse, disengaging—withholding that extra 30% of discretionary eort that can transform an average performance to one that is truly extraordinary.How can your organization make sure your employees are continually growing?Consider these four core ways to easily integrate career development into everyday activities:Career development is the single-most powerful lever managers have to ensure higher employee retention. Cultivadevelopment Stop saving the career development conversation for the Mine hindsight What do you really know about your employees? Often, the “tell me about yourself” terminates after hiring. Yet an employee’s background, passions, and talents are just as relevant today as on day one. What are their preferences and values? What do they like—and don’t like? What kind of work do they see themselves doing? Finding out who they are helps you plan for conversations happen one-on-one, foresight conversations can occur in groups or team your organization—and beyond. What are the greatest challenges facing the industry? How are customers changing? What bold moves are competitors making? conversations that can help plan comprehensive, engaging career development activities that want to use? Where does what you want to learn overlap with what the organization needs? Quell your skepticAsking questions is just the rst step to creating ongoing career development conversations. Being open to the answers is just as crucial. Be curious about what employees have to say about their aspirations, industry insights, and ideas for merging their goals with the organization’s goals. Focus not on “xing” the situation but on listening and digging deeper for 5 Work has changed: Boomers are living and working longer, upward mobility has slowed, and the landscape of business is more uid than ever before. Today, career development resembles not so much a ladder as a climbing wall: Employees can train for lateral moves or even positions below their current one if it’s a better t for their talents and passions.Career development isn’t a linear, stepped process. Learning can be asynchronous and happen in and around work activities. 6 Think climbing wall, Opportunities for career development happen all the time. Even better, they can take place in minutes, not hours. Be open to cultivating growth outside of the concept of the classroom. about what they’re learning about a current activity. If you’re launching a new project, set aside ve minutes and ask team members what they hope to gain from it. Seize the moment 13 CSOD is the leader in unied cloud-based applications for talent management. The company’s their people and increasing workforce productivity. They are used by over To learn more about Cornerstone, visit csod.com When you put these core elements into play and start having candid career conversations, you’ll be surprised how deeply it aects employees and increases their engagement. For tools that can help you support your career and talent development strategy, visit csod.com © 2014 Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. All Rights Reserved. csod-wp-The Core 4 ways to Cultivate Career Develpment 10-2014