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<\/a>According to a BlessingWhite survey, only 28% of employees are confident that their next career move will be with their current employer<\/strong>. That means 72% of employees believe that they may have to change companies to take that next step. This is one example of employees taking ownership of their own well-being, which on one hand sounds like a really good thing. But I guess there is a downside for their organizations. Self-driven career management may correlate to talent mobility, which can be bad if the organization isn\u2019t prepared.<\/p>\nSo what’s an employer to do? Here’s a simple approach.<\/h4>\n\n- Make sure that your employee value proposition (the give-get equation between employers and employees) genuinely reflects the degree to which you will help your employees develop.<\/li>\n
- Maintain open dialog with employees about their career goals.<\/li>\n
- Work collaboratively with employees to define near-term development activities. Always have a development activity in process for each employee. Avoid procrastination.<\/li>\n
- Build and execute development activities that require accountability from the organization and each employee. It\u2019s a two-way street.<\/li>\n
- Ensure you have a replacement strategy for key positions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
If You Are Great At Training and Development<\/h3>\n
On a related note, I’ve heard leaders lament that they have become the training ground for their competitors. If your organization has become so good at training that your employees are being poached, first and foremost – congratulations!<\/p>\n
Second, resist the temptation to implement golden (or silver or any other form of) handcuffs. They often don’t work and\/or come with unintended consequences. Instead, think about whether there is something in your environment that needs to change to provide a better situation for the highly trained. Or worst case, figure out how to revamp your business model to accept the inevitable loss of talent.<\/p>\n
After all, what is the alternative? Running a business with under-skilled employees who work for you because they don’t have other options? I\u2019ve seen that movie before. You won\u2019t like how it ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s common knowledge that the days of lifetime employment (i.e. working for the same company for your career) have passed. But an interesting shift has accompanied that change. Employees are taking more ownership over their own career development. On one hand, this sounds like a really good thing. But self-driven career management may correlate to talent mobility, which can be bad if the organization isn\u2019t prepared. As an employer, what can you do to prepare? I have 5 simple steps to help aid you in better handling this dilemma, as well as tips for those that feel they have become a training ground for their competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6],"tags":[18,19,20,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
If You Are Great At Training and Development<\/h3>\n
On a related note, I’ve heard leaders lament that they have become the training ground for their competitors. If your organization has become so good at training that your employees are being poached, first and foremost – congratulations!<\/p>\n
Second, resist the temptation to implement golden (or silver or any other form of) handcuffs. They often don’t work and\/or come with unintended consequences. Instead, think about whether there is something in your environment that needs to change to provide a better situation for the highly trained. Or worst case, figure out how to revamp your business model to accept the inevitable loss of talent.<\/p>\n
After all, what is the alternative? Running a business with under-skilled employees who work for you because they don’t have other options? I\u2019ve seen that movie before. You won\u2019t like how it ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s common knowledge that the days of lifetime employment (i.e. working for the same company for your career) have passed. But an interesting shift has accompanied that change. Employees are taking more ownership over their own career development. On one hand, this sounds like a really good thing. But self-driven career management may correlate to talent mobility, which can be bad if the organization isn\u2019t prepared. As an employer, what can you do to prepare? I have 5 simple steps to help aid you in better handling this dilemma, as well as tips for those that feel they have become a training ground for their competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6],"tags":[18,19,20,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}