The document emphasizes the importance of career conversations for employee engagement and development, outlining practical structures and tools to facilitate these discussions. It highlights that employees must take responsibility for their own career paths and provides a model for effective conversations that focus on questioning and reflection. The content serves as a toolkit for managers and employees to engage in meaningful career conversations that are flexible and time-efficient.

1. The Power is in
the Question
Engage, Retain and Develop
Employees Through Quality
Career Conversations

2. Our Destination
By the end of this session,
you’ll have a practical
structure and toolkit so you
can have effective career
conversations with
employees

3. Our Roadmap
• WHY Career Conversations are
important
• WHAT makes a career conversation
effective
• HOW to have a great career
conversation

5. Why Career
Conversations
Are Important

6. Meaningfulness of
work and the fit
between a person and
their job are two of the
key drivers of
employee
engagement

7. You can’t develop
others’ careers
They have to
develop their own

8. Career paths are
no longer
predictable

9. Employees need to
take responsibility
for developing their
careers

10. Could you have
predicted you would
end up where you
are now?

11. What
questions
would you
like
answered?

12. What makes a
Career
Conversation
effective

13. What do effective career conversations
lead to?
Source: Straight Talking: Effective Career Discussions at Work by Wendy Hirsh, Charles Jackson, Jenny Kidd.

14. Employees don’t have
the opportunity for
career conversations

15. What was the most
useful career
conversation you
ever had?

16. Effective career
conversations
• Often take place informally
• Sometimes unplanned
• Don’t have to take a long time

17. It’s all about
them

18. Conversations are the
most helpful resource
they can access

19. What
questions
would you
like
answered?

20. How to have a
great career
conversation

21. The Career Conversation Model

22. The power is in the
question

23. Change the
Viewing
Help them see
things differently

24. Change
the doing
Help them
behave
differently

25. Career
Conversation
Tools
• Practical
• Flexible
• 15 mins

26. Where they’ve
come from
Where they’re
heading
Where they are
Three areas of questions

27. Where they’ve
come from

31. Where they’re
heading

35. Where they are

40. 3 different levels
• Focus on one question or one tool
• Blend 2-3 different tools
• Apply all 10 tools

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

42. What
questions
would you
like
answered?

43. Get in touch
• Website: www.antoinetteoglethorpe.com
• Email: antoinette@antoinetteoglethorpe.com
• Telephone: +44 7957 604783
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