Having career conversations with your team members can make a huge difference in leadership.
However, many leaders don’t make the time for them and I think they’re missing an opportunity.
In this episode, we’ll take a look at the benefits of career conversations, how to have them effectively and some of the reasons why many leaders don’t have them… or really struggle to deliver them effectively.
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Show Links:
- How Short Term Thinking Leads to Bad Leadership
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #214: How to Start Being More Trustworthy For Your Team
- Book by Daniel Pink: Drive
- Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team)
- Liked or Respected: Which Would You Rather Be?
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #165: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
This is a helpful topic! I am the office manager of a consulting pavement engineering firm and have been doing my job for the last 10 years. I started out as and administrative assistant to the Accounting/HR manager and have evolved into my current position as the company grew. I have two administrative support staff that I supervise and we have discussed career paths for them but neither really knows what they would like to do or even what might be available within our company. I plan to retire in the next 2-3 years and want to have a succession plan including these two individuals but I’m not really sure where to start. Right now I’m trying to make sure they are getting the training and exposure to as much as possible within the company and keeping the career conversation going.
Thanks for the comment JM – good work having those conversations.
In my experience, it is pretty common for people to be unsure about their career direction, but sometimes this is just because nobody has ever asked them so they never really thought about it!
Good luck,
Ben