5 Keys For Developing Talent In Your Organization

5 Keys For Developing Talent In Your Organizati

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  1. Reinforce the value of learning. Go beyond the baseline conversation about goals. Ask about what they want to accomplish and what they feel their gaps are.  When someone completes an assignment, celebrate both the outcome and the learning, especially if the assignment wasn't completed as smoothly as everyone would've liked.
  2. Build sustainable processes to support development. Managers should be expected to coach and develop their people. At a minimum, everyone knows what areas they need to improve, and for those with particularly high potential, career tracks are developed that give them a sense of where they can go inside the organization.
  3. Reinforce shared values. Employees should be able to link their everyday tasks and responsibilities to the values in the organization. People need to understand why what they do is important.
  4. Leverage problems as opportunities for real world learning and development. What's an acceptable failure needs to be clarified and that way, by incorporating stretch assignments, employees can seek out challenges where they can develop without feeling like mistakes will set them back in their career or jeopardize their job. Learning organizations see problems as opportunities.
Personally, I'd like to solidify a culture of development at Forbes. I'm a big believer in giving as much context as possible, and when I meet with members of my team each month, one of my favorite questions to ask is, "what have you learned recently?" When an entire organization is stacked -- from top to bottom -- in "step up" roles, everyone is learning and there's the potential for high performance.
I do wonder how leaders at every level, based on their educational background, perform on this dimension. For example, are leaders with MBAs more or less prone to coach and develop talent in their organizations? Inquiring minds want to know.

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