10 Reasons Talents Will Leave - 10 Pledges a Talent Should Make To Stay (Part 1)
I was reading the above article from @Mike Myatt on Forbes at 12:00 AM tonight after resolving highly stressful situation related to an application hosted on the cloud. After reading the article, which is a great read, I asked myself whether could I answer each of the 10 points from the perspective of the talent. Specifically, what would the ideal talent do to stay as a talent in their organization and the consequences that would come with their decision. I call this my 10 Pledges A Talent Should Make. Let me start with 5 for tonight.
Note: You will see the original statement followed by my pledge, and a paragraph explaining my pledge.
1. You Failed To Unleash Their Passions - A talent will own their careers making the necessary maneuvers to ensure their passion and career roadmap align
- As a talent, I know what my main goal is and what my passion is. I voice my career aspiration to management and continue to perform at an excellent level in my current role. I try to always innovate and integrate aspects of my passion in my role - design thinking and user story mapping for me - even if it is not the norm. I know that I will not always get the roles I am passionate about due to many reasons (different field of discipline, people's perception, etc.) and that others may get those roles first. I will evolve and adapt, stay humble, and start from the beginning in a new field of discipline as long as it is part of my roadmap to achieve my passion. As a talent, that is how I will continue to unleash my passion.
2. You Failed To Challenge Their Intellect - A talent will challenge the status quo if everything seems alright and will find a challenge to achieve something never done before
- As a talent, when accepting roles and assignments offered to me, I will always challenge the status quo because innovation and evolution if we follow what's worked in the past. There are challenges everywhere when you step into a role, a team, someone else' team, or any other assignment. Stakeholder perception, application performance and stability, communication, customer satisfaction, vendor relationship, new ideas, or budget are just some of the challenges. I will not what for people to assign a challenge, I will find challenges, show others why the challenge matters, and then overcome them. As a talent, that's how I will feed my intellect.
3. You Failed To Engage Their Creativity - A talent will not allow boundaries or limitation, such as job descriptions, to stop them from tapping and unleashing their creative force with others inside or outside their team
- As a talent, I will not allow my output to be defined only by my job description or a set of KPI/metrics. I will evolve the definition of my job description and responsibilities to meet the challenges the organization is facing, without waiting to be told. I will find new ways to create value in my work by working with people outside of my function to new and creative ways to improve my work, or change the way I work. I will implement new disciplines, innovations, and ideas from the outside into my work, and show them why the new creative process matters. As a talent, that's how I maintain my creative force.
4. You Failed To Develop Their Skills - A talent will own their own personal development by identifying new trends, their own needs, and planning their own training needs
- As a talent, I will own my personal development. I will seek feedback from many sources - direct manager, peers, partners, other people, direct reports, etc - to identify my development needs. I will seek the new skill trends in the marketplace. I will create my own development plan, identifying training, and execute them by myself without waiting or depending on the organization. I will use Open Universities and sources if I can't have paid training. I will read books to learn new ideas in my off time so that I always have knowledge and new skills. I will fight for my training budget and be able to show to my management why my training matter. As a talent, I own my skills and how I want them to evolve.
5. You Failed To Give Them A Voice - A talent will speak and provide feedback by knowing the right channels and the right people to talk to
- As a talent, I know that my opinion matters and that I must speak out. I also know that speaking out means finding the right channels for communication and finding the right people to communicate. I know that I have creative ideas and opinions, and know how to frame them against all the strategic needs of the organization and the different people within them. I know that I need to maintain relationships and networks far beyond my own function or organization to ensure my voice can be heard. As a talent, I will use my voice to influence others with my ideas and opinions to make a difference.
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8 年Looking forward part 2 :) Interesting position regarding the ? challenge their Intellect ? point, how many times we faced a status quo established by a cultural-conservative-fear situation. You never laughed to the situation that looks like: - Please “Think out of the box” but within the well stablished standards Unfortunately the article do not covers the ‘Why we do what we do’ When I read my first book of management 3.0 the importance of the ? goal and purpose ? at work became so obvious. The challenge is to motivate people with something more than a paycheck. (along with recognizance, development and self-management) I had the chance to have this interesting discussion in Argentina a few years ago, among other issues to handle the motivation was one of them. So, I simply sat down and asked ‘Why do you work?’ Obviously, you need to have a good level of closeness and the confidence of the people to be able to ask such plaint simple question without sounding aggressive, ironic or asking for a justification. But it’s an outstanding question to understand other people motivations if you are able to listen without judgement.