TRAINING

• Establish an open-door policy and ensure that you follow through on that commitment. If a team member comes to you for help, you should make yourself available to talk either immediately or soon thereafter.• Ensure each member of your team has created an Individual Development Plan (IDP). • Always listen to your employees and their concerns, even in times when you disagree. • Talk to each member of your team about their own IDP and how you can help support them. • Be sure to actively listen and not think about what you are going to say next • Look for commonalities across all the IDPs on your team, and then find resources that can help everyone • As a best practice summarize what you heard the employee say before taking your turn to speak. grow at the same time.

UTILIZE INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS

INQUIRE ABOUT RESOURCES

• Proactively look for information that would be useful for your team to learn. Information can be found in the

Commons>Learning Hub and is also available online. • Ask your team to create a list of relevant books, websites, that they have found helpful in their career. • Ask your peers to provide you with relevant learning resources and share it with the team.

CREATE MENTORSHIPS

• Work with you team members to understand their individual career goals and interests. • Have your team members present you with a list of a few mentors they would like to work with • Review the information your team members provided and try to connect them to mentors that will help them grow in their career.

CREATE STRETCH ASSIGNMENTS

• Assign stretch assignments to one or a few members of your team. • These stretch assignments would take someone out of their current comfort zone in terms of knowledge, skill, or ability but would not be impossible for them to achieve. • Set up check-in meetings to ensure that the individual has support and the resources they need. • Ensure that you, or a subject matter expert, is available for questions as needed.

DISCUSS CAREER PATHS

• Discuss career paths with your team and highlight that the vertical path is not the only route to grow one’s career. Sometimes the best way to grow is through lateral moves. • Highlight the career paths of successful colleagues in the organization and have them attend a team meeting to discuss their own career paths.