The Compass Journal: Navigating Careers & Leadership

If you read this blog regularly you will know by now that it’s important to have career conversations with employees if you want to keep and develop your best people. You will know that the most valuable questions are well-crafted solution-focused ones that provoke insight and reflection. You may even have purchased your own Career

Career development conversations come under that category of conversations we describe as challenging.  Why is that?  Well, they’re personal, they’re important and they’re full of implied meaning and promise. For all those reasons, there is a risk that managers won’t have them in spite of their benefits.  So how can you help managers develop the

Do you work with employees who are unsure how to articulate their ambitions?  Career development conversations are an ideal opportunity to help them think creatively about their future success.  I have some powerful questions to ask someone about their career.  They will help them think about their future and open up possibilities. They are the

Recently, a client asked for my help with training their managers to have a career development discussion. They wanted employees to take charge of their own career management but managers lacked skills and experience. The managers were nervous of initiating a career development discussion because: They felt they didn’t have enough time They lacked confidence