As you’re planning for 2024, one thing to ensure you include in your planning is some space for individual career planning with your team.
This doesn’t necessarily have to be done pre-Christmas, but at least once every year you should be having really great discussions with your people about their future with you.
This doesn’t have to be the performance review discussion, in fact, it may not be best for it (and I do love a quarterly review cycle anyway), but creating space for these discussions is essential.
Having a plan, a pathway forward and being clear about is something your team fundamental want-they want to know where they are going and if you can’t articulate that, and a competitor can, you’re in big trouble.
It doesn’t mean it needs to be ladder climbing or annual promotions, micro steps and milestones are a great way to lay out a plan.
It helps people to feel like they are making progress, moving forward, achieving, improving, not staying stagnant–which is amazing for motivation and engagement.
