enabling mentors to have quality career conversations
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Career Conversation Toolkit Helping Mentees Take Ownership for Their
Career Development
Presentation to IMA Conference Phoenix, Arizona
April 2015
Our Destination
• By the end of this session, you will be able to help mentees take ownership of their career development and prepare for career conversations with their manager
Why career conversations are important
What makes a career conversation effective
Career Conversation Toolkit: Overview
WHY CAREER CONVERSATIONS ARE IMPORTANT
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You can’t develop others’ careers
They have to develop their own
Career paths are no longer predictable
Employees need to take responsibility for developing their
own careers
Employees need support
• Where are they at? • What’s important to them in their career? • What does success look like for them? • What skills and qualities do they have? • What opportunities are available? • How do they navigate the processes and politics
of the organisation? • How do they identify and evaluate different
options and opportunities? • What career development strategies can they
use to make progress?
WHAT MAKES A CAREER CONVERSATION EFFECTIVE
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Effective Career Conversations Lead To Positive Insights and Actions
0 20 40 60 80 100
Secondment
Retention
Contacts
Career skills
Development
Political
On-going …
Job move
Feel-good
Information
Self-insight
Future direction
%
Source: Straight Talking: Effective Career Discussions at Work by Wendy Hirsh, Charles Jackson, Jenny Kidd.
37% Never
30% Once
17% Twice
15% More
But employees aren’t given the opportunity to discuss careers
The best career conversations
Often take place informally Sometimes unplanned Don’t have to take a long time
And are focussed on the needs of the individual
Which means mentors are the most helpful resource they can access
CAREER CONVERSATION TOOLKIT
The power of a career conversation is in the question
The Career Conversation Toolkit does the heavy lifting for you
The Career Conversation Tools are:
Practical
Flexible
Enable an effective career conversation in 15 mins or less
Use the tools to change the viewing
Help employees see things differently
So that they change the doing
Help employees behave differently and take ownership of their careers
Where they’ve come from
Where they’re heading
Where they are
The tools help employees reflect on and consider:
3 different levels
• Focus on one question or one tool
• Blend 2-3 different tools
• Apply all 10 tools
Try it out for yourselves!
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