Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want

This isn't just a book, it's a resource. Read the book through and then come back to it over and over for new ideas. It is so full of ideas and action items you can't possibly do it all at once or in order. And work will be required. You won't get better reading this book. You will become aware of the gap, and you will receive ideas and tools to close the gap. Each chapter is full of assessments, myths debunked, and fresh ideas and new ways to look at old problems. If you want to get serious about retention, this book is a must!

The book does have some interesting insights and advice that made it worth reading, but it barely hit the mark of a good book for me. I didn’t like that; at times, it felt like reading a self-help book. The authors expense advice about many things, but they don’t give you any good reasons to believe them. This is solely their opinion, and that’s it. I would have like to be provided with at least some empirical evidence or stories of success of people using these techniques. The one redeeming aspect for me is that the book did make me question important aspects of career development, the book did make me think deeply about some of these things, and that's, for me, what good books are made of.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  This book should be required reading for all first-time supervisors, seasoned managers and organizational leaders. Employees yearn to work for the boss that cares about their careers, and helps them to achieve their full potential. Yet, few find the time to do so. Ten minutes a day? Ten minutes a week? Julie Winkle Giiulioni offers tips to follow. Do it!

I deliver leader coach training internally for leadership in our organization and include a section on "career development coaching" in some of the programs. All I can say about "Help Them Grow" is WOW! This 112 page book is a jewel filled with practical tips that when applied will help leaders/managers provide excellent development conversations and coaching. AND, the authors emphasize that career development is not a yearly (dreaded) event or one-time discussion but rather ongoing conversations that can be done effectively and efficiently (translation: great career coaching does not take as much time as leaders often think). One of the many "jewels" included are examples of the questions to ask employees that help them start taking responsibility for their development and questions that help keep them on track. Also, in most companies, corporations, and organizations today there may be fewer promotions available, and the authors encourage a paradigm shift from "onward and upward" to "forward and toward." In other words, lots of opportunities for development exist in all organizations especially when all of us see success as more than just a promotion.If I could give this book more than 5 Stars I would!Ed Nottingham, PhDConsulting & Clinical PsychologistAuthor,  It's Not As Bad As It Seems

Beverly Kaye, known internationally as the High Priestess of Corporate Retention, has given us another book that managers and supervisors will be able to refer to year after year. Open at virtually any page and you will find immediate help in dealing with any employee's career development. What she and her co-author say about the importance of having meaningful conversations is unique to this book. If only people would get off their smartphones and talk to one another, the world would be a better place.

Help them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want is an engaging and insightful work, introducing a practical and powerful new paradigm for career development in the 21st century.The book addresses the new realities of the 21st century workplace, delivering a highly accessible toolkit. The authors argue that the traditional annual career development conversation is passé and should be replaced by multiple, shorter and more relevant conversations within the context of the day-to-day workflow. Building on the ideas introduced by Doug Connant and Mette Norgaard in Touchpoints, Help them Grow guides managers into this new system in several ways: first, by recognizing the opportunities for dialog when they occur during the normal course of business; and second through a set of tools and techniques to structure conversations that foster worker growth.The key is to frame these conversations correctly. Help them Grow offers a simple yet compelling formula: insight lies at the intersection of hindsight and foresight. Kaye and Giulioni teach managers to notice critical opportunities for worker self-awareness through reinterpretation of past events and experience. True insight comes by overlaying an enlightened understanding of the past with the anticipation of the dreams and possibilities of tomorrow.Help them Grow dispels outdated myths of 20th century career development, replacing them with strategies more relevant to the modern workforce--jettisoning a one-dimensional traditional career ladder and substituting a climbing wall, a powerful and nuanced metaphor that expands rather than limits the spectrum of possible conversations.The book is filled with mind-enriching gems and is a quick and easy read. Anyone who invests a mere two hours with this book will be rewarded by a new framework for career development, leading to greater worker productivity, satisfaction, growth and retention. This is a compelling ROI.

I'm disappointed to learn that when I ordered this book it was not the second edition. Great read, just wish the second edition would have been available to purchase in December 2018. I would give it 5 stars but only four because of not having the second edition, which includes information two additional chapters and resources. Only found this out from surfing the Internet.

This book is great===easy to read, superb content and ideal for every manager in every organisation who wants to connect with their staff in a meaningful way.The book takes the mystery out of career conversations and removes the fear, anxiety and concern that managers have around opening up the "career conversation". Equipping managers be comfortable in this area by giving them easy, straightforward tools and approaches enables them to build relationships which work for the manager, the staff member and the organisation.If you struggle with retention, employee engagement, motivation, morale or productivity then this book will help.Buy it..... in fact buy one for each of your team leaders and managers and expect it to be some of the best investment you make.

Had hoped for something that would bring clarity to career management conversations. Unfortunately the style of writing and the way the book was structured did not work for me and I was left struggling to both get into the material and to understand it. Had to return it.

Great book with some really simple but thought provoking insight and questions.A great resource especially when accompanied with the card deck for career coaching

The book is a must-read for every leader who is managing people as well as for anyone who aspires to have a role in developing others.It’s a concise but practical guide full of useful questions which you can work through with your staff to help them in their career development. The central question the authors answer is “if career development is a tool that can deliver productivity gains, expense reduction, quality improvements, innovation, and bottom-line results, why isn’t everyone using it?”. The authors also bring some interesting tools for your leadership tool box, such as the three types of conversations – hindsight, foresight, and insight.This book is also a must-read in terms of millennials and Gen Z because research shows that one of the biggest question they keep asking us is about their career and the next steps. And we know that already next year, in 2020, millennials will make up 35% of the global workforce with Gen Z making up 24% which equates to more than half the entire workforce population.

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