The 2014 National Career Development Association Conference in Long Beach, CA was a tremendous experience. Here’s what I learned along with some thoughts on leadership actions for us all to consider: 1. Career Development in an Employee Engagement Strategy. I heard about how Boeing and GM are setting up systems (mainly through online tools) to facilitate employees to take ownership of their careers and for leaders to take ownership of facilitating career development discussions and planning with their employees as a part of performance management. I personally learned how true this lesson is through an experience a friend had before we
Our challenge this year as a company is creating a scalability framework that can help us drive growth. Beginning this process in 2014 has helped us realize the value of values and of getting them down on paper. We help our organizational and individual clients do this on a regular basis, but have been behind the curve on practicing what we preach! Our company values that will drive our growth and services are: People First. We believe people are a company and community’s greatest asset. This is why we work to foster passion and productivity in people. We realize that
As a child, I remember singing “This Little Light of Mine” in Vacation Bible School. My favorite part was when we got to sing, “Hide it under a bushel, NO! I’m gonna let it shine!” I think I, in part, loved this section of the song because we got to yell the word, “NO!” when yelling was hardly ever allowed in church or at any other place for that matter. Now as a career and leadership coach, I find that I love this part of the song because shouting a resounding “NO!” to hiding your “light” under a