Career Conversation Toolkit Ten Tools to help Employees Take

Ownership of Their Career Development

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The Career Conversation Toolkit is a set of practical tools developed by Antoinette

Oglethorpe for use by managers, mentors and in-house coaches

“We all know its good to talk. It’s good to engage people in a conversation. To give people a voice.

So why don’t we do more of it? Effective career conversations have the potential to

drive up levels of engagement and

productivity within your organisation.”

Antoinette Oglethorpe

The quality of a Career Conversation is in the power of the questions

The Career Conversation Toolkit does the heavy lifting for you

The Career Conversation Tools are:

Practical

Flexible

Enable an effective career conversation in 15 mins or less

Use the tools to change the viewing

Help employees see things differently

So that they change the doing

Help employees behave differently and take ownership of their careers

Training for managers, mentors and in-house coaches to use the Toolkit

Can lead to lots of positive insights and actions by employees

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Secondment

Retention

Contacts

Career skills

Development

Political

On-going …

Job move

Feel-good

Information

Self-insight

Future direction

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Source: Straight Talking: Effective Career Discussions at Work by Wendy Hirsh, Charles Jackson, Jenny Kidd.

“I love this toolkit. Its practical, helpful and

easy to use. And it helps facilitate career conversations in small,

bite-size chunks”

Manager & Coach, Financial Services

Organisation

You can use the toolkit in a variety of ways

Focus on one question or one tool

Blend 2-3 different tools

Apply all 10 tools

Find out more

www.antoinetteoglethorpe.com/career-conversation-toolkit

Get in touch

Website: www.antoinetteoglethorpe.com Email: antoinette@antoinetteoglethorpe.com Telephone: 0191 286 4311 or 07957 604783 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/antoinetteoglethorpe Twitter: www.twitter.com/antoinetteog