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Do you know what your employees’ career goals are? Are you helping them reach those goals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re a manager, career development should be an ongoing process with each of your team members. Employee experience expert Russ Laraway recommends having three career conversations with employees, each conversation with a specific focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue reading to learn how to conduct these conversations and measure their effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Career Conversations With Employees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of Laraway\u2019s focus areas for managers is career development<\/em>: helping employees to plan and realize their long-term career goals, not just their current job goals. Notably, this focus area includes helping your workers advance their careers even if doing so means that they eventually leave your company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll examine Laraway\u2019s suggestion of using three crucial career conversations with employees to build the foundation for their career development. Then, we\u2019ll discuss how you can gauge your effectiveness in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversation #1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the first career conversation, ask your employee how they got to their current job role<\/a>.<\/strong> Ask about their past\u2014their education, their previous jobs, and why they applied for their current position. Knowing your employee\u2019s history will give you a more thorough understanding of them as a person, including their interests, shortcomings, and job skills that may not come up in their current position. This understanding will make you better able to help them find and get their dream job<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Discussing an employee\u2019s history has benefits beyond just helping them with career development; it can also help you to forge a more personal connection with that employee, which also helps boost their engagement. In Trillion Dollar Coach<\/em><\/a>, Bill Campbell describes the value of getting to know your staff as human beings\u2014talking to them about their lives helps foster connections and reinforces job satisfaction<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversation #2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the first career conversation, <\/strong>ask about their goals and their aspirations.<\/strong> What do they hope to get from their current job? What do they hope to accomplish over the next year? Five years? What\u2019s their ultimate career goal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversation #3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the first career conversation, <\/strong>work with the employee to create what Laraway calls a Career Action Plan<\/em> (CAP).<\/strong> In short, this is a plan to get the employee from their current position to the dream position that they described in the second meeting. What skills will they need to develop? What work experience will they need? How can they accomplish this, and how can you help as their manager?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tip: Set SMART Goals<\/a><\/strong>

Laraway suggests learning your employees\u2019 goals, then helping them make career plans to reach those goals. However, he doesn’t offer a lot of concrete advice on how to do that. One useful strategy is to make a career plan<\/a> using a series of what Charles Duhigg (Smarter, Better, Faster<\/em><\/a>) calls SMART goals<\/a>.

SMART goals are objectives that follow certain criteria. They must be:
\u2022 Specific.<\/strong> Outline a targeted objective, not a vague aspiration.
\u2022 Measurable. <\/strong>You must be able to measure the goal\u2019s success\u2014in other words, there has to be a way to know when you\u2019ve reached it.
\u2022 Achievable and Realistic. <\/strong>You must have the time, resources, and skills to complete this goal.
\u2022 Timely. <\/strong>Have an expected timeline for accomplishing the goal.

Helping your employees set specific, feasible goals\u2014and a timeline to go with them\u2014will create a framework for their career development.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Measuring Your Effectiveness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To find out how effectively you\u2019re helping your workers with their career development, Laraway suggests asking employees to rate you in the following two categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Constructiveness. <\/strong>Ask: How well does your manager support your career development? How helpful is your manager\u2019s advice about your career? How frequently does your manager encourage you to take on new challenges or learn new skills that may help you in the future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: One thing Laraway doesn\u2019t discuss in this section is the importance of helping your employees play to their strengths<\/a>. Ideally, someone\u2019s dream job will be something they have a natural aptitude for, but that\u2019s not always the case\u2014and sometimes they don\u2019t even realize what they\u2019re good at. An attentive manager can help by recognizing and highlighting what the employee does well and what they seem to enjoy. Then, as you continue working with that employee, you might find opportunities to tweak the career plan you\u2019ve created to better suit their talents and interests.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Care. <\/strong>How strongly do you agree with the statement, \u201cMy manager cares about me as a human being, not just as an employee?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In Radical Candor<\/em><\/a>, Kim Scott writes that in order to truly care about your employees, you have to practice self-care first<\/a>. Her reasoning is that it\u2019s hard, if not impossible, to truly care about other people when your own needs aren\u2019t being met or you\u2019re distracted by your own problems. She adds that self-care looks different for each person: Some people need to meditate quietly in the morning to prepare for the day, while others need to go to the bar with friends after work. In short, doing whatever keeps you happy, healthy, and focused will be good for you and <\/em>for your team.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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