Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

8Advancing Action

We go through the exercise every year. Spend a bunch of time figuring out what I need to develop my career. Time’s typically up just about when we get around to how to make it happen. I honestly think this does more harm than good. It’s like a tease that gives me a hint of what’s possible then slams the door on it—until next year when we do it all over again.

—an employee (perhaps yours)

Now to HOW. Remember the caution in the last chapter? Don’t start working on how to make development priorities happen until after you’ve clearly identified what they are. Well, here is a second—and equally important—caution on the subject: don’t ...