Career Conversations Toolkit
Are you looking to equip managers at all levels in your organisation to have transformational career conversations?
Develop, engage and retain your people with powerful career conversations
A comprehensive 'off-the-shelf' career conversation toolkit for managers - Digitally downloadable
Preparation forms for the manager and the individual
1
Individual Preparation Form
A fillable form for staff to help them plan
for the discussion and reflect on past/current career and future aspirations.
2
Manager Preparation Form
A fillable form for the manager to use in preparation for each career conversation. It has space to plan objectives, topics and anticipated career development.
5 Useful Tools
A
How to set up and run the discussion
A tool describing how to set up, run and follow up a career conversation.
B
Useful models and approaches
A useful cheat sheet outlining roles and responsibilities, good coaching questions, coaching models (e.g. GROW) and helpful career concepts.
C
Dealing with challenging scenarios
Outlines a number of scenarios that managers sometimes struggle with along with suggested approaches/tips for handling these.
D
Generational differences
An outline of the main generational age groups describing key characteristics and suggestions for approaching differently.
E
Discussion topics based on performance/ potential
Suggested discussion topics based around the 9-box grid concept.
Key benefits
Fast implementation
Digital format. 1 booklet of tools and 2 forms in a zip file - meaning quick organisational rollout
Low cost
Digital format means that costs can be kept to a minimum. Managers print as needed.
Comprehensive coverage
Tools contain everything from how to structure a discussion, good coaching questions and potential topics for discussion and more
Builds manager confidence
The toolkit includes everything a manager will need to conduct transformational conversations
Offers flexibility for managers
Fillable forms mean managers and staff can choose to print off the forms and tools or store onscreen
Briefing video included
10 minute briefing video included with the tools. Optional training can also be provided
Editable PDFs using (free) Adobe Reader
Watch our short animation to see how the toolkit helps SMEs in particular overcome their talent management challenges
Get in touch to provide the career conversations toolkit to managers in your organisation
