60 min 5 activities LearningReflectionPlanning

Career Development Workshop

Managers, HR, individual contributors

Create meaningful professional growth conversations, surface career goals and development gaps, and generate concrete next steps for growth.

Workshop Goal

The Problem

Create meaningful professional growth conversations, surface career goals and development gaps, and generate concrete next steps for growth.

What You'll Achieve

Facilitator Value

Safe For The Office™ handles the technology, timing, and participant experience. You focus on the conversation.

A step-by-step structure for the full 60-minute session.

Would You Rather 10 min

Warm up. Surface career preferences and growth tradeoffs in a low-stakes format.

Open with: "There are no right answers here. We want to understand what growth means to each of us." Career WYR questions reveal real development preferences.
Team Polls 12 min

Surface career goals, development priorities, and confidence levels across the group.

Do not ask participants to disclose salary expectations, performance ratings, or promotion timelines. Focus on development, skills, and growth conversations.
Team Retrospective 12 min

Reflect on current development gaps, what is working, and what is missing.

Keep reflection focused on development experiences and growth opportunities — not performance evaluation. Retrospective before Idea Storm is essential.
Idea Storm 12 min

Generate ideas for supporting professional development and career growth.

Ideas should address development at the team and organisational level — not just individual plans. Keep discussion forward-looking.
Priority Poker 10 min

Align on the most important next steps for career growth and development support.

After reveal: "This is what the group said matters most for growth. What's the first concrete step?"

Do not ask participants to disclose salary expectations, performance ratings, or promotion timelines.
Keep discussion focused on development, skills, growth conversations, and learning opportunities.
Retrospective before Idea Storm — always. Understand current state before generating solutions.
WYR opens the session because career conversations benefit from low-stakes warm-up before polling.
Close with a concrete development commitment, not a general aspiration.

What's the career conversation you keep putting off?
What skill would most change your trajectory if you developed it this year?
What does this organisation do well to support growth — and where does it fall short?

"What's one development commitment you're making after today?"
"What's one conversation you're going to have about your career in the next two weeks?"

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Safe For The Office™ guides you through every step. No facilitation experience required.