Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go:

Career Conversations Organizations Need

and Employees Still Want 3rd Edition

 

Research consistently shows that career development is the most effective tool for managers to enhance retention, engagement, productivity, and overall results. Yet, many managers, pressed for time, feel they can’t prioritize it. This book presents a transformative solution: frequent, brief conversations with employees about their aspirations and the business. By weaving these discussions into everyday interactions, managers can drive career development at the pace of business, making it both practical and impactful.

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Join us for a book sharing and panel conversation on Career Development!

Explore new updates, key insights, practical and impactful approaches to employee growth and engagement.

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Updates to the new edition of this career development classic includes:

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• Three Key Conversations: Techniques to help employees understand their strengths, weaknesses, and career aspirations.
   

• New Chapter Highlights: Strategies for supporting remote and hybrid employees and addressing proximity bias.
   

• Talent Management Insights: Understanding talent as a vital enterprise resource and combating talent hoarding.
   

• Psychological Safety: Its critical role in fostering a supportive development environment.
   

• The Importance of Human Interaction: Navigating the balance between AI and meaningful connections.
   

• Practical Tools: Over 100 questions for initiating career conversations and a discussion guide to enhance our approach.
   

• The Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go Book-Bot, a custom GPT that extends and elevates the reader experience with AI-powered opportunities to plan and rehearse career conversations, assess current skills and practices, brainstorm targeted development activities, and more.

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PANELISTS​​

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Dr. Beverly Kaye

Best-selling author, dynamic speaker and internationally recognized authority on career development, employee engagement and retention. Since founding Career Systems International (CSI) forty years ago, Bev has helped organizations reduce talent loss and foster supportive cultures. She refreshes business leaders’ thinking as both a guide and a keynote speaker. Bev shares her thought-leadership through books and articles, motivating leaders to support employee growth and empowering employees to take charge of their careers. She revitalizes career development and engagement projects, hosts talent management conversations, facilitates brainstorming, provides 1:1 coaching, and participates in panels.

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Doreen Tan

Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific Human Resources at Allied World, brings 25 years of expertise in HR and finance across consulting, airline, and healthcare sectors. She is known for her strategic leadership in change management, fostering productivity, and enhancing employee engagement through innovative HR solutions.

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MODERATOR

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Dr. Wendy Tan

An entrepreneur, researcher, and Managing Partner of Flame Centre, Wendy seeks to build the learning ecosystem to help professionals thrive in the future of work. Concerned about how human beings are learning in an age where machines are getting faster and smarter, Wendy started her doctoral studies focusing on learning agility in 2017. Wendy is also an author of Wholeness in a Disruptive World: Pearls of Wisdom from East and West, a recommended reading in organisational change masters programs in the USA. A graduate of Masters of Organization Development (MSOD) at Pepperdine, she is also a facilitator of Flawless Consulting.

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