WishList!
Proactive career management
Wishlist is an open platform to proactively manage your learning and your evolution in the company and fulfill your wish!
Summary
The idea is to establish a platform in the organization intranet to post your career wishes that has expectations for the short, medium and long term. This open platform will allow the individual to connect with other people in company who have similar interest, learn from their experiences, get executive guidance, and proactively manage a career. It will allow the rest of the organization to support the career of its employees.
Moonshots
Retool management for an open world (log in to the web page to see the different options)
Problem
The traditional career management of individuals might be suppressed by structured organizations, by the lack of opportunity to express individual interests, by assumptions of the management or by desires of the management instead of desires of the individuals.
In global companies where the opportunities could also be global, HR tends to remain local therefore not giving the employees a full perspective on international opportunities.
Career management is also often the result of one ability to network. In global companies, networking with colleagues from other regions might result pretty challenging for those not requested to travel across the organization.
This suppressed current form of career management does not exploit all the potential of the employees and doesn’t allow full visibility of opportunities across regions and functions
Solution
We offer to establish a platform in the company intranet where individuals can post their wishes and expectations for their careers. Individuals will write their short, medium and long- term wishes.
Individuals could express the functions, geographies or business units that are interesting for them. Additionally, they could express how they envision their progress within the company in order to start lobbying for it.
Colleagues and superiors will know about the individuals’ expectations and will be able to give feedback, either privately or publicly, however the individual chooses to do so.
Individuals will be able to network with other people within the organization pursuing similar steps and this network will allow exchange of knowledge in the organizations.
Impact
Improved motivation of employees because they will have more transparency to express their intentions
Dynamic organizations where the employees would be in charge of driving their careers instead of using the typical structured “career success management tools”, which appears many times obscure and secretive, thus creating frustration.
Meritocracy will be incentivized because the promotions within the organizations will be supported by results and by a conscious effort to drive a career.
Internal politics will be limited and undermined. ndividuals will not be promoted or blocked based on their ability to fit into internal politics, Instead, talent will be promoted.
This system will also allow company to increase the satisfaction of their employees and to give them a clearer vision of their career potential. Thanks to this system employees might therefore be more willing to commit to the company thus increasing their retention level.
Challenges and suggestions
1. Who should be given access to the wishlist?
Whether the platform could be accessed by all employees or only by certain individuals with high potential is one of the question companies will have to answerThe suggestion is to roll out the platform first in the higher hierarchies of the organization and afterwards in the lower hierarchies of the organization.
2. Why should the company top executive take the time to give feedback?
How to motivate managers to give feedback to individuals is key to the successful implementation of such a program. The suggestion is to set the target to all executives to at least coach a certain amount of employees through the tool. The quality of the feedback could also be graded and have an influence in the overall evaluation of the executive.
3. Should the information be private or public?
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