Managers Need to Also Be Career Counselors

Fast Company
Reid Carr

Ideally, the people you hire have some ambition and are somewhat competitive. This stems far beyond the office softball team or reaching for a promotion. Managers need to recognize that they play a critical role in getting employees where they want to go within the company and beyond.

At Red Door Interactive, we’ve noticed certain staff members are go-getters, seizing opportunities based on their strengths, but most need help looking at the big picture to really capitalize on them. For the purpose of this blog, we’ll define strength as something one is passionate about where the hours seem to go by in an instant. A manager should be able to help an employee harness and foster that passion to ultimately create a stronger workforce. Some of these techniques have worked for us:

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