Development interviews

Bring your career development conversations to life over the long term and encourage action

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Pedagogical objectives

  • Make development interviews a managerial ritual, so as not to intervene only when things aren't going well or when it's already too late.
  • Prepare your interviews by focusing on employee development
  • Monitor their goals over time, encouraging them to take action

The program

  • Preparation: how to prepare yourself and help your colleague prepare?
    Example of tools: Define your managerial intention; The Start / Stop / Continue technique for preparing the exchange.
  • Leading the conversation: How to manage uncomfortable situations (employee who has no plans, who wants to progress too quickly, etc.)
    Example of a tool: the hourglass technique to structure the conversation. 

Ongoing monitoring: how can you support an employee's progress over time? Example of a tool: The follow-up logbook

WHEN YOU LEAVE THIS WORKSHOP, YOU'LL KNOW...

  • Integrate development interviews as an essential management ritual, to anticipate growth needs and opportunities, rather than intervening only in crisis situations or when difficulties have already set in.
  • Approach each interview by focusing on the employee's support and progress, and thinking about how to support his or her long-term development.
  • Ensure regular monitoring of the objectives set, while encouraging employees to take the initiative and take concrete action to make progress on their projects.

AND IT WILL COME IN HANDY...

  • Don't put everything on the annual review
  • Keeping your employees loyal
  • Build your reputation as a manager-coach, even beyond your own team 

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Workshops
From 6 to 12 participants
1 Workshop per week or every 2 weeks
+6 situations per workshop
Short format

Our teaching approach

The number 1 differentiator of our courses. Each of our training contents is developed on the basis of more than 500 real-life cases on which we get participants to react. Each case is matched with tools and best practices to be applied directly in their daily lives. The key to creating commitment throughout the course: your participants come and come again because they are convinced of the concrete usefulness of what they have learned.

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