Discover the Career Conversation Toolkit: 10 tools for managers, mentors and in-house coaches to use to have effective career conversations with employees. And through those conversations help retain employees and develop their careers within the organisation

1. Career Conversation Toolkit
Ten Tools to help Employees Take
Ownership of Their Career Development

2. Created with Haiku Deck
The Career Conversation Toolkit is a set of
practical tools developed by Antoinette
Oglethorpe for use by managers, mentors and
in-house coaches

3. “We all know its good to
talk. It’s good to engage
people in a conversation.
To give people a voice.
So why don’t we do
more of it? Effective
career conversations
have the potential to
drive up levels of
engagement and
productivity within your
organisation.”
Antoinette Oglethorpe

4. The quality of a Career Conversation is in the
power of the questions

5. The Career Conversation Toolkit does the
heavy lifting for you

6. The Career Conversation Tools are:
Practical
Flexible
Enable an effective
career conversation
in 15 mins or less

7. Use the tools to change the viewing
Help employees see things differently

8. So that they change the doing
Help employees behave differently and take
ownership of their careers

9. Training for managers, mentors and in-house
coaches to use the Toolkit

10. Can lead to lots of positive insights and
actions by employees
0 20 40 60 80 100
Secondment
Retention
Contacts
Career skills
Development
Political
On-going…
Job move
Feel-good
Information
Self-insight
Future direction
%
Source: Straight Talking: Effective Career Discussions at Work by Wendy Hirsh, Charles Jackson, Jenny Kidd.

11. “I love this toolkit. Its
practical, helpful and
easy to use. And it
helps facilitate career
conversations in small,
bite-size chunks”
Manager & Coach,
Financial Services
Organisation

12. You can use the toolkit in a variety of ways
Focus on one question or one tool
Blend 2-3 different tools
Apply all 10 tools

13. Find out more
www.antoinetteoglethorpe.com/career-conversation-toolkit

14. Get in touch
Website: www.antoinetteoglethorpe.com
Email: antoinette@antoinetteoglethorpe.com
Telephone: 0191 286 4311 or 07957 604783
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/antoinetteoglethorpe
Twitter: www.twitter.com/antoinetteog