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Why Should Leaders Help Employees to Develop the Right Career Strategy?
In general, the majority of people around you want you to be successful. Your parents, your friends, your family, your partner, your employer, your boss, your team members — all the people with whom you interact on a daily basis and with whom you have a relationship — all want you to succeed in whatever endeavour you attempt.
But that’s in “general”! More specifically, consider these points:
- Your parents would never want you to fail. That’s a given.
- Your “good” friends would never want you to fail. That’s acquired behaviour.
- Your partner would never want you to fail. That’s how it is supposed to be.
- And no employer would ever hire someone with the hope that the individual would fail! That’s just not logical.
Yet, many employers continue to spend a tremendous amount of resources to hire great and talented individuals and then leave them to their own devices as they navigate throughout their career. That non-management “hands off” style absolutely does not make any sense either.
The Costly Paradox
Many organisations today pay for health insurance, fitness centre membership, meals at work, tuition reimbursement, dependent care, car…
