Ready to take charge of your career and become an invaluable asset to your organisation? This user-friendly, structured and comprehensive career conversation guidebook fosters meaningful dialogues about your professional growth and align your aspirations with organisational goals.

Why This Guidebook?

It is designed to guide you through the crucial preparation steps for your career conversation. This tool empowers you to make the most of every dialogue with your manager. Whether seeking clarity or exploring new paths, this guidebook provides the structure and insights you need to articulate your goals effectively and align them with organisational opportunities.

What's Inside?

The following snippets offer a glimpse into the carefully selected strategies and practical tools that will empower you to engage in effective, meaningful career conversations with your manager.

Section 1: Promotion is Not the Only Way

• Six Career Paths: Career progression goes beyond traditional promotion! Recognising the diverse career paths allows you to redefine career success in six different ways, which you should consider based on your current personal and career situation to help achieve your career aspirations and goals.
• Seven Career Dimensions: Reflect on what truly matters to you and consider these seven dimensions as you navigate your career journey.

Section 2: Preparing for Career Conversations

• Know Your Career Values, Interests, Personality and Skills (VIPS): Recognising your VIPS allows you to engage in effective career discussions and identify suitable career paths.
• Career Drivers Assessment Worksheet: Discovering your inner motivations and uncover the factors that will increase your career satisfaction.
• Employee's lifecycle: Understanding your career lifecycle, from onboarding to separation, helps you understand your current stage in the employee lifecycle and what it means for your career development. Whether you're a new hire seeking direction, a mid-career professional looking for new challenges, or a seasoned employee considering your legacy, the ready sample questions for each stage equip you to have meaningful conversations and get the support you need at every step of your unique career journey.

Section 3: Understanding Career Conversations

• To-Do’s before, during and after a Career Conversation Session: Don't leave your career to chance – equip yourself with the knowledge and strategies to conduct effective career conversations with your managers to steer your professional journey towards success.
• Actionable tips and tools: Designed to support you before, during and after each conversation. They include sample career conversation scenarios tailored to various lifecycle stages, comprehensive checklists, links to career development resources and templates for creating a personalised career development plan.

Get the support you need at every step of your unique career journey. Encourage your manager to download the guidebook for the organisation – it's your key to unlocking mutually beneficial career conversations, exploring new opportunities and driving both personal and company-wide success. Your career development journey starts here!