Overview
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Explore the four-stage Pivot Method for helping your direct reports map their growth through targeted, one-on-one career conversations.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Applying the Pivot Method to help employees map their career growth
- Why career conversations matter
- How career conversations differ from performance reviews
- Identifying ideal outcomes in a career conversation
- Avoid problem solving in career conversations
- Bridging the gap in career conversations between what's working and how employees are most excited to grow
- Help your team find their flow state with stretch projects at work
- Coaching employees toward pilots and small experiments for their next career moves
- How career pilots fit within a pivot portfolio, even if not full-time
- Practical tips to close career conversations with clear ahas, actionable insights, and small next steps
- Build the Pivot coaching process into your regular one-on-ones
- How to launch career conversations with your team
- Manager dos and don'ts during one-on-one career conversations
- Tips for managers, mentors, and coaches on preparing for career conversations—without overdoing it
- Career coaching tip: Find resonance through body language brightness
- Career coaching tip: Draw from all three intelligence centers—head, heart, and gut
- Career coaching tip: The two most powerful follow-up questions
- Coaching conversation: Plant stage
- Coaching conversation: Scan stage
- Coaching conversation: Launch stage
