Category: Career Conversations

Why Performance Reviews are the WORST Place to Talk About Careers

In my last blog post I shared a story of what can happen to an organisation’s succession plan if employees career aspirations aren’t taken into consideration.  And you may have read it feeling comfortable in the knowledge that your organisation isn’t making that mistake because you have a question at the end of the Performance

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The Best Resource for Retaining and Developing Talent

Employee career aspirations are an important consideration for talent management.  As this great quote says: “Don’t ask what the world needs – ask what makes you come alive because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”Howard Thurman There are few organisations who would argue with the need for retaining and developing talent. 

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Helping Employees to Develop their Careers

In today’s tough economic circumstances, business leaders are seeking competitive advantage through the best use of their people more than ever before. In a time when the job market is uncertain many leaders may feel that supporting the career management of their staff is not a priority, seeing it as something that is personal to

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