Based on goals, participant profile, IDP, and coaching fundamentals required.
Positive Career Conversation™ equips managers and leaders with direct reports to lead clearer, safer, and more useful career conversations around growth, career path, aspirations, development priorities, and future opportunities.
When managers ignite possibilities, they help employees find more meaning in their work. And meaning is often where stronger performance begins.
Career conversations sound simple until they involve questions about growth, promotion, pay, readiness, career path, and future opportunities.
Most managers care about their people. But when they cannot promise a role change or salary increase, the conversation can feel risky.
So they delay it. Not because they do not care, but because they were never given a clear structure for how to lead it.
HR can design the talent framework, career pathways, and IDP process. But employees often decide whether they still have a future in the organization through the conversations they have with their manager.
That is why this programme treats career conversation as a leadership capability, not just an HR initiative. It helps managers create the space where employees can see possibility, meaning, and a practical path forward.
The Career Adventure Blueprint, or CAB, gives managers a structured way to open the conversation, decode motivation, calibrate difficult topics, agree on action, and keep the conversation alive through follow-up.
Managers learn how to start the conversation with a crafted opening and transition smoothly into a meaningful career discussion.
The CAB helps managers explore the key touchpoints behind an employee’s motivation, career aspirations, and growth direction.
Managers practise handling sticky questions around promotion, pay, readiness, and future opportunities without avoiding or overpromising.
The conversation closes with concrete, employee-owned actions supported by the leader, so the discussion produces movement.
Managers build a rhythm of follow-up so career conversation becomes an ongoing leadership practice, not a one-time checklist.
The training helps managers move from vague encouragement to a more intentional rhythm of conversation, reflection, calibration, and follow-through.
Open growth conversations naturally inside 1-on-1s, development check-ins, and review follow-ups.
Use the Career Adventure Blueprint to understand what employees value, what drives them, and what kind of growth creates meaning.
Respond to promotion, pay, readiness, and future opportunities by clarifying what sits within and beyond the leader’s control.
Help employees focus on strengths, skills, experiences, and actions that can move them forward.
Keep career development alive through check-ins, reflection, and shared accountability.
Close conversations with clearer priorities, useful feedback, and development actions employees can own.
Managers practise how to open career conversations, use the Career Adventure Blueprint, calibrate hot spots, and create employee-owned actions that can be followed through after the session.
More confidence, clearer structure, and less avoidance around sensitive career development conversations.
A stronger sense of visibility, direction, career path clarity, meaning, and support for growth.
Better retention support, stronger engagement, manager capability, and a healthier talent growth culture.
Some employees will eventually move on. The deeper question is whether their experience under your leaders made them clearer, stronger, and more willing to return one day.
Positive career conversations help managers become a meaningful part of an employee’s growth journey, not just a checkpoint in their employment history.
Designed for managers and leaders with direct reports, with guided practice, role-play scenarios, and conversation examples your team can apply immediately.
0900–1700 hours
With direct reports
Based on goals, participant profile, IDP, and coaching fundamentals required.
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Real moments from our Career Conversation training sessions where managers learn to lead meaningful conversations.
Positive Career Conversation™ helps your managers ask better questions, listen well, calibrate hot spots, guide next steps, and follow through.
Speak with RISEUP Global about running this workshop for your managers and leaders.