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Development Conversations
For Managers
Cesar Mieses
Assistant Director of HR & Recruitment Services
Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health
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Agenda
• What is a development conversation?
• Myths/Facts
• Formal or Informal?
• Roles—who’s responsible, and for what?
• What do you actually say?
• Resources and tools
• Questions
Agenda
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“Happy are those who dream
dreams and are ready to pay the
price to make them come true.”
Leon J. Suenens
-Cardinal, Archbishop
Quote of the Day (Forbes)
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What Is “Development”?
“Growth in response to change.”
From the manager & organization’s point of view development is:
• A continuous learning and growth process that aligns the needs of
the workplace with individual values, interests and skills
From the employee’s point of view development is:
• A continuous learning and growth process that aligns individual
values, interests and skills with the needs of the workplace
... thereby increasing individual commitment, satisfaction and
contribution.
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Myths from Staff Perspective (or could some be true?)
• It’s my manager’s job
• Someone else will tell me what to do next in my career
• I can’t figure this out—it’s too hard or not worth it
• There is no time or money to pursue my development
• I am too busy
• I only need to think about this if I want to move up, and
that’s not my focus right now—I’m happy (or need) to
stay where I am
• My boss will think I just want more money
• My boss will think I am unhappy in my current role
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Myths from Manager Perspective (or could some be true?)
• When will my staff member find the time?
• Maybe if they don’t bring it up, I shouldn't bring it
up either
• It’s not in our interests to develop staff
• I am not qualified to be a career counselor
• My staff member will tell me when they are ready
• If I develop them, they will go
• Let’s put this off for now, we have too much to do
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Why Are These Conversations
Important?
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The Old World of Work Model:
the Career “Ladder” or Step
Approach
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Current World of Work Model:
More Like the Subway Experience
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- “Signal Issue” ( everything comes to a halt in someone’s career,
has become stagnant) Why is that? How do reinvigorate a job?
How long is the wait?
- “this line is going EXPRESS to” Someone higher up has left,
your staff member is potentially ready …. Let them stay on or
have them get off?
- “b line has how many stops?” understanding slow and steady
career paths . Can be very incremental and spread out
- Staff is going the wrong way (going backwards than forwards)
- Staff is on the wrong line entirely ( this is not the career they
want or it is not a good fit)
- Last stop (understanding that there is no progression within the
department)
Subway Analogy
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So Now What?
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Make Career
Development a
SAFE TOPIC
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The Most Common Causes of
Avoiding Development
Conversations:
1. Time
2. Role confusion
3. Money and resources
4. Performance issues that have not been
addressed
5. The revolving door
6. Lack of subject matter expertise/experience
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Time
• An hour? Once a year?
• Part of the performance conversation?
• Short, in-the-moment discussions and
perspectives?
All of the above.
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Responsibility:
Career Development
Is owned and driven by the employee
Utilize available career resources to plan one’s
own career • (For example: career development workshops, one’s manager, web
research, informational interviews)
May align with, or differ dramatically from
one’s current job
Kathleen Sexton, Stanford University
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Responsibility: “In-Place/Current
Role” Development
• Is guided by the manager:
– Create appropriate development activities that generate
success in the current role
– Explore job enrichment opportunities
– Provide feedback
– Identify and address skill gaps
– Monitor progress
– Work to make your feedback as specific as possible
Adapted from Kathleen Sexton, Stanford University
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A Useful Career Model for
Managers and Staff
• Looking Inward
• Looking Outward
• Looking Forward
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Questions for the Looking Inward
Phase
• What are your staff member’s current
– interests and skills…
– and how well can they actually describe them,
with specific examples?
• Are their skills up to date? What’s the evidence?
• How is their performance in this job?
• What is their reputation? How do you know?
• Are they self-aware?
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A Few “Hindsight” Clues
• What do they loved doing?
• What can others always count on them for?
– How could this work for and against them?
• What do they complain about not being able
to do_______, that they love doing?
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Questions for the Looking
Outward Phase
• How well-networked are they ?
• Are they up to date in your current
profession?
• Are they in competitive market? Are they a
true competitor in the job market?
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Questions for the Looking Forward
Phase
• What do they want from their job at this
time next year, and what are you doing
support that?
• What is their next step right now?
• What could they do in this job to move in
that direction?
• Are they having periodic career
discussions with others in the field?
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Taking a Step Back and
Think About Motivation.
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Preparing for a Formal
Discussion
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Preparing for a more formal
discussion
• What is the goal of the conversation?
• Do you have a plan? A strategy?
• Do you have examples need to support a
perspective?
• Are you ready for a negative outcome?
• Are you ready to have a positive conversation?
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Questions to Consider as a
Manager
• How can we work best together to achieve
development goals?
• Will you accept constructive feedback as
you take on new responsibilities?
• How will you manage the rest of your
workload if you take on new
responsibilities?
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Staff Questions for Managers:
Moving Forward • How will you clue me in to how this organization is
changing, fill me in on what’s going on?
• Will you provide me with specific ongoing feedback about what I am doing well and what I need to alter (and how)?
• How will you ensure my continued learning?
• How will you use as many of my talents as you can?
• Will you stop and take time occasionally to listen to me think about multiple avenues to career growth?
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Time to Think About Action
Plan and Checkpoints!
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Other Resources
• The Harvard Lynda.com portal: Lynda.com has great
free information on career development, with worksheets
and tools: lyndaCampus at Harvard University
• The Manage Mentor site (free for all Harvard employees
at all levels):
http://harvie.harvard.edu/system/files/Forms/Career_Prof
essional_Development/ManageMentor.pdf
• Yale University has excellent worksheets on
development conversations:
http://www.yale.edu/hronline/idp/index.html
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Further Resources
• Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, Bev
Kaye and Julie Giulioni
• The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention:
Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy,
by Pamela Mitchell
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Questions???