HR Management & Compliance

‘Passiontivity’: Engaging the Next Generation

In yesterday’s Advisor, consultant Shira Harrington showed how the career ladder has been replaced by the career StairMaster®. Today, her take on “Passiontivity” plus an introduction to the leadership library for managers and supervisors.

 

Assessment Tool for Career Motivation

Harrington offers the chart below as a way of assessing career motivation.

 

You’d like to get people to high skill, high motivation jobs. If they are highly motivated with low skill, go for professional development. Low skill and low motivation suggest ending the relationship. Low motivation and high skill is probably a stop-gap or a temporary situation.

Assessing Gen-X Succession Planning Motivators

Harrington recommends considering the following:

  • Who—Passion /Personality.
  • What—Highly skilled and highly motivated.
  • Where—Interest in industry, mission, or location.
  • When—Work/life balance, travel, commute.
  • Why—Why do they (or do they not) want to assume an executive role?
  • How—Do they grasp what soft skills will be required?
  • How Much—What are the compensation expectations?

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Next Generation Engagement

  • Determine the next generation of high potentials.
  • Assess career motivators using “Passiontivity” chart above.
  • Determine the KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities) required.
  • Offer the KSAs as a shopping list. Coach people up or out. (You get the development you want; we get the KSAs we want.)
  • Offer training and executive coaching for high motivation, low-skill, high potentials to fill executive roles?
  • Set up a program to encourage knowledge transfer and mentoring from Boomers.

Anticipating Needs

Don’t simply wait and then react to unexpected turnover, says Harrington. Discuss business and staffing projections with your revenue generating managers:

  • Can your HiPos be groomed from within?
  • What percentage of hires do you want to be external?
  • What are your vacancy rates in up or down economies?

Filling Difficult-to-Fill Positions

When you encounter difficult-to-fill roles, says Harrington, consider the following:

  • Develop new career paths, including horizontal ones.
  • Assign short-term projects.
  • Articulate your EVP (employee value proposition). Make sure employees know all that you are offering in exchange for their work.
  • Develop your employment brand:
    • Your specialists speak at conferences.
    • Build an online profile around topics associated with critical roles (PR, blogs, etc.).
    • Develop your branding at universities and colleges for disciplines where there will be shortages.

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Each course in our leadership library addresses a specific topic with engaging and interactive presentations, delivering practical advice and clear instructions that trainees will remember long after the training is complete.

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