How to Help Your Employees Develop Their Careers

Today’s rapidly evolving business landscape means that managers not only need to actively manage their careers, but they need to provide career guidance for their employees. Here are some ways on how to help your employees develop their careers.

1. Create growth opportunities

Give your team new and professionally challenging work experiences to get them out of their comfort zones. Different assignments allow your employees to grow rather than remain stagnant.

 2. Offer financial support

Skills trainings or taking up additional courses in a tertiary institution can be costly. Offer to subsidise their course fees or sponsor them for the entire study period.

3. Update your team

Keep your employees up to date on the organisation’s goals and future plans so that they will know where the company is headed. This will allow them to better develop a personal career development scheme that is in line with the progress of the company.

4. Allow time off

Sometimes, seminars and skills trainings are conducted during work hours. Ensure that your employees have reasonable workloads so that they can have time off to go for training opportunities. Adjust work schedules if possible to give your employees time outside of work responsibilities to develop new skills and gain new knowledge which may contribute to their growth on the job.