Career challenges
- Pandemic accelerating trends and widening gulf between different career paths
- Loneliness of working from home
- Managers with low emotional intelligence
- Unstable, harder market market to search for jobs, blocking career choices
- Insights are breeding uncertainty
Proactively reorientate careers and career management
- Ask deeper questions about career and life
- Consider where you career would go next
- Consider the role of the organisation in career management and career orientation
- Review of what business challenges are going to need reskilling
- Examine what you want from the organisation in relation to your career
- Develop a culture where people develop their careers
Questions to ask senior leaders
- How much do you understand what your current workforce skills set is, versus what the future skill set is need – do you have a plan to bridge the gap?
- What conversations do you need to have to understand how your people’s careers can evolve?
- How can you set people on a clear journey to get ‘that role’ – what stages do they need to go through to go from where they are to the role they are in future to reach that goal?
- What are you unique talents?
- Are you willing to invest in some skills sets for jobs that don’t exist yet?
- Do you have the expertise in your business to develop the skills they need?
- What space do you give to your employees to try out different career options?
- What are you unique talents?
