Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, Beverly Kaye
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, Beverly Kaye
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Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
Career Conversations Employees Want

Author: Beverly Kaye, Julie Winkle Giulioni

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Unabridged: 2 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2012

Synopsis

Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, it’s frequently back-burnered. When asked why, managers say the number one reason is that they just don’t have time—for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops. But there’s a better way. And it’s surprisingly simple: frequent short conversations with employees about their career goals and options integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business. Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well-intentioned development event or process. These conversations will increase employees’ awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, and interests; point out where their organization and their industry are headed; and help them pull all of that together to design their own up-to-the-minute, personalized career paths. Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go is filled with practical tips, guidelines, and templates, as well as nearly a hundred suggested conversation questions. Illuminated with the perspectives of real managers and employees, this audiobook proves that careers are best developed one conversation at a time.

About Beverly Kaye

Beverly Kaye is the founder of Career Systems International. She was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement award from the Association for Talent Development for her groundbreaking and continual contributions to workplace learning. She is the coauthor of several books, including five editions of Love Em or Lose Em.

About Julie Winkle Giulioni

Julie Winkle Giulioni is co-founder and principal of DesignArounds. She's partnered with hundreds of organizations to develop and deploy innovative training products that are used worldwide

About Susan Boyce

Susan Boyce is the award-winning narrator of over 140 audiobooks. She performs in variety theater, is one half of the song-and-dance team of Jones & Boyce, and holds a degree in theater and biology. Susan can be heard in phone trees, in computer games, and as the voice of the pink "Care Bear." She lives in St. Augustine, Florida, and summers in Greenville, Maine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samuel

Very practical way to view employee development. Easy read with lots of tangible application.......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy

There is a lot here, but at the same time powerfully simple. Reading it as an employee but it is written to managers, the author hones in on employees career development being a great part of managing well. As a team lead in a non profit for a few years I had staff that I hand picked because I both......more

Goodreads review by Billy

Great material, basic yet thorough without being full of filler material. I will be referring to it for my business.......more

Goodreads review by Craig

As some of you that read my reviews know, I joined a communication, confidence, and leadership growth group in January of 2016 called Toastmasters International. A gentleman there took a risk by affording me the opportunity to practice my leadership skills in a way that challenged me to be uncomfort......more

Quotes

“Should be the career conversation bible for busy leaders!” 
Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times bestselling author

“One of the most important responsibilities of a leader is to grow future leaders. The authors do a great job making development something that can happen during one’s everyday work life.” 
Gabriella Giglio, Executive Vice President for Global Human Resources, American Express

“Every manager will find this short book to be long on practical ways to make career development happen.”
Jack Zenger, CEO, Zenger Folkman, and coauthor of the bestselling The Extraordinary Leader

“Life and business is all about where you pay attention. Pay attention to the growth of your people…and they will grow your business. The authors do a great job in spelling out the how-tos!”  
Chip Conley, founder, Joie de Vivre Hotels, and author of Emotional Equations

“Like eating your fruits and veggies, developing your employees should be done every day. Beverly Kaye and Julie Giulioni not only show how easy it can be but make the case that regular, short conversations can better develop people.”
Charlene Li, founder, Altimeter Group, author of Open Leadership, and coauthor of Groundswell

“This pragmatic book is chock-full of easy-to-follow steps on how to have critical career conversations—conversations that are uncomfortable for many managers and too often are avoided. I love that Kaye and Giulioni demystify the process and motivate us ‘to talk individual development’ with our employees. Our employees will love it too!”
Patricia Crull, Group Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Time Warner Cable

“Filled with great examples, questions, and real-world approaches that fit into the workflow, this book brings much-needed simplicity and personal touch back to career development.”
David Rodriguez, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Marriott International

“Developing talent is essential for business success. This book provides a practical and easy-to-implement approach that can have a big impact on an organization.” 
Tamar Elkeles, Chief Learning Officer, Qualcomm

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