Performing the Exercise With Your Staff
Explore methods to effectively lead your staff through career visioning exercises by using coaching techniques and competency assessments. Learn how to facilitate collaborative planning sessions, provide constructive feedback, and help your team create actionable development plans to advance their careers.
The exercise above, in which you define your vision and plan, is both engaging and motivating. The good news is that you can go through this exercise with your staff. You should have a pretty good idea of how to do it as you’ve just done it yourself, but here are some additional tips.
Let’s start with defining a vision.
Step 1: Ten-years exercise
First, they’ll need to look back over the last ten years using a timeline in the same way that you did. You can decide to do this collaboratively, such as drawing it all out on a whiteboard together, or perhaps, they’d prefer to go away and think about it. It’s up to them.
The result of this stage, regardless of whether it was done alone or in partnership with you, is that they’ll have filled in their timeline. Get them to document it somewhere so you can find it later. It’s time for the first coaching session.
Step 2: Ten-years coaching session
In this session, you’ll be using the timeline of the previous ten years to help them dream about the future. You need to assume the role of the coach, keeping the thought bubble over their head as we’ve learned before and asking leading questions to help them ...