Career Conversation Toolkit
Empower your managers to have the conversations that keep people motivated, engaged, and ready to grow.
Engage, retain and develop your employees through effective career conversations
Career conversations shouldn’t be hard — but too often, they’re avoided. The Career Conversation Toolkit gives managers the structure, language, and confidence to talk about growth in a way that’s natural, engaging, and effective — in 20 minutes or less.
Research shows that engaging and enabling employees boosts performance by 15-30%
Helping employees take ownership for developing their careers can be a significant challenge. Let’s face it. Opening up a sensitive issue like career progression can weigh heavily on even the most experienced shoulders.
Where should you start?
What questions should you ask?
How do you help employees develop their career?
That’s what the Career Conversation Toolkit is designed to help you with.
This set of practical card-based tools designerd for managers, mentors and coaches. It’s flexible and easy to use with all employees, no matter where they are in their career and what they want to achieve.
It allows you to have conversations that make employees want to stay with your organisation rather than go elsewhere.
The Career Conversation Toolkit allows you to:
- Have a meaningful career conversation in less than 20 minutes without any complex process or paperwork.
- Help employees feel more positive and satisfied with their current role no matter what their ambitions.
- Encourage employees to identify development opportunities and take steps that will help them and the organisation.
Whether you’re booking Antoinette to speak at a Learning at Work Week event or a company-wide mobility development campaign, the Career Conversation Toolkit is a powerful companion resource to extend the learning.
Testimonial
“The Career Conversation Toolkit has everything you need to have a useful career conversation. I now have simple and helpful techniques that mean I can have these important conversations in a way that is productive and beneficial.”
Rosa Scognamiglio, HR Director
What does the Career Conversation Toolkit Contain?
The Career Conversation Toolkit draws on the principles of positive psychology, solutions focus and neuroscience. It provides a set of powerful, thoughtfully-conceived questions to:
- Provoke reflection, insight, ideas and action
- Keep the focus on the employee
- Encourage them to take ownership
The questions are packaged into ten different tools. Each tool provides a practical but flexible framework that can be used as the basis for a conversation that is only 20 minutes long. You can use one tool or several tools in whatever sequence or order makes sense for the employee and their situation.
Pair it with the Career Compass Workbook to help employees reflect before your conversations — so discussions are more focused, positive, and productive.
About the Creator
Antoinette Oglethorpe is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author, and global authority on career development and leadership.
With over 25 years’ experience – including roles at P&G, Accenture and Avanade – she’s worked with organisations like the World Health Organization, UN Refugee Agency, NHS and Fortune 500 companies.