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Learn moreStudy after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, it’s frequently back-burnered. When asked why, managers say the number one reason is that they just don’t have time—for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops.
But there’s a better way. And it’s surprisingly simple: frequent short conversations with employees about their career goals and options integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business. Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well-intentioned development event or process. These conversations will increase employees’ awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, and interests; point out where their organization and their industry are headed; and help them pull all of that together to design their own up-to-the-minute, personalized career paths.
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go is filled with practical tips, guidelines, and templates, as well as nearly a hundred suggested conversation questions. Illuminated with the perspectives of real managers and employees, this audiobook proves that careers are best developed one conversation at a time.
Beverly Kaye’s groundbreaking programs have been implemented by such leading corporations as American Express, AT&T, Compaq, and Xerox. The scores of products she has designed are produced by her Scranton-based organization, Career Systems International.
Julie Winkle Giulioni has spent more than twenty years improving performance through learning. She’s partnered with hundreds of organizations to develop and deploy innovative training products that are in use worldwide. She is well-known and well-regarded for her creative, one-of-a-kind solutions that consistently deliver bottom-line results. As cofounder and principal of DesignArounds, Julie leads multidisciplinary teams that create award-winning electronic and instructor-led training. She is an author and respected speaker on a variety of performance improvement, leadership, sales, and customer service topics. Her understanding of an organization’s training needs transcends industry and audience. Previously Julie was the director of product development for AchieveGlobal, one of the world’s largest commercial training and development companies. She also held learning leadership positions in financial services and retail organizations, taught marketing at the secondary and post-secondary level, and served as a department chair at Woodbury University. When Julie is not working with clients, she’s an active community member and PTA/soccer mom. A southern California native, she currently lives with her husband and two children in South Pasadena.
Susan Boyce is an audiobook narrator and an actor who has worked onstage at Trinity Repertory Theater, Worcester Foothills Theater, the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and every major ragtime and traditional jazz festival in the United States. She has won three AudioFile Earphones Awards.
Reviews
“Should be the career conversation bible for busy leaders!”
“One of the most important responsibilities of a leader is to grow future leaders. The authors do a great job making development something that can happen during one’s everyday work life.”
“Every manager will find this short book to be long on practical ways to make career development happen.”
“Life and business is all about where you pay attention. Pay attention to the growth of your people…and they will grow your business. The authors do a great job in spelling out the how-tos!”
“Like eating your fruits and veggies, developing your employees should be done every day. Beverly Kaye and Julie Giulioni not only show how easy it can be but make the case that regular, short conversations can better develop people.”
“This pragmatic book is chock-full of easy-to-follow steps on how to have critical career conversations—conversations that are uncomfortable for many managers and too often are avoided. I love that Kaye and Giulioni demystify the process and motivate us ‘to talk individual development’ with our employees. Our employees will love it too!”
“Filled with great examples, questions, and real-world approaches that fit into the workflow, this book brings much-needed simplicity and personal touch back to career development.”
“Developing talent is essential for business success. This book provides a practical and easy-to-implement approach that can have a big impact on an organization.”