Career Management

• Careers are in chaos! Progress is no longer up so employees are moving on!
• How can careers be managed if the traditional ladder has been kicked to one side?
• How can you retain your stars, if they cannot advance?
• Flexibility is the key to career success, so become a chameleon!
• All work is becoming nothing but short term projects for knowledge workers.
• The concept of the fixed "job" is obsolete, never mind lifetime employment.
• These visions of tomorrow apply well to the most media-hyped industries.
• High tech industries where fast innovation drives continuous change.
• Not all industries change fast - oil, airlines, restaurants, construction, public sector.
• Some compete on cost, quality and service - see organizational renewal
• Managerial careers will be available where complex tasks need efficient execution.
• Organizations need a cafeteria approach to careers to accommodate differing strategies and varying needs of people.
• Employees will continue to want career development whether it be increased professional status, greater responsibility, personal development, power or more money.
• Career planning matches organizational needs with those of employees.
• The first step is to take stock of your own industry patterns.
• Edgar Schein's career anchor concept is a way to take stock of employee needs.
• Effective career management is a sound talent management strategy.
• Talent management depends on effective career management. Otherwise, highly qualified knowledge workers will go elsewhere.
• Managing careers is a strategic initiative to position an organization for competitive advantage.
• But, employees need to be entrepreneurial about their careers and take equal ownership for advancing themselves, regarding the organization as an internal market.

• Assessment Centres
• Management assessment
• 360 degree feedback
• Succession planning
• Career management
• Two broad employee roles
• Success in your new job

• Competency profiling
• Performance appraisal
• Developing people
• Executive mentoring
• Developing entrepreneurs
• Redundancy counselling