In today's workplace, career development is critical for attracting, engaging, and retaining talent. Employees expect a job with opportunities for growth and advancement. Managers can shape the employee experience and drive team performance.

In this episode, The Edge of Work Founder and Podcast Host, Al Dea shares some of the research that he and the team have been doing around how to promote a culture of career development inside of your organization.

In this episode, Al covers:

• The importance of career development as it relates to performance, agility, and talent attracting and retention
• What employees are looking for out of managers for support
• What managers can do to support employee career development
• What steps organizations can take to create a culture of career development

Additional Links

• Research Highlights: https://theedgeofwork.com/people-growth-equation-career-development-report/
• Al’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsaldea/

Chrissie Arnold is the Director of Future of Work Programs at Slack. In her role, Arnold is tasked with identifying and testing new and novel ways of working that can help improve the way that Slack employees work so that they can improve key business results including productivity, employee engagement and employee satisfaction.

During our conversation, Chrissie spoke about some of the lessons she’s learned about experimenting with new ways of working and thinking about work as well as some of the examples of different experiments that she and her team have run to help employees work better. Chrissie also shares some of her thoughts on how leaders can challenge workplace norms, build a culture of experimentation inside of their company, and her own perspective on how leaders can think differently about work.

Links

• Chrissie’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissiearnold/
• Slack Workforce Lab Research: https://slack.com/resources/collections/workforce-lab#explore-workforce-lab-research-

Dr. Michael Arena is an author, researcher, and co-founder of Connected Commons and former talent executive at companies including General Motors, Bank of America and Amazon. With a passion for research in the studies of collaboration, social connection and organizational dynamics, Michael has a keen sense and understanding of the state of today’s workplace, and ideas for what organizations can do to create opportunities for their people to work productively and collaboratively.

During our conversation, Michael spoke about key topics including the importance of social capital, the power of intentional collaboration and what organizations can do to maximize the impact of the work of their teams. Michael also shared his thoughts on the true impact of serendipity, the importance of creating the right conditions for collaboration, and his own thoughts on how to create a better world of work.

Links

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-arena-21b6164/
• Articles: https://www.hrexchangenetwork.com/contributor/michael-arena
• Book: Adaptive Space: