Title: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team - Thoughtful Leader
Headings: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team
Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team
What Is a Development Opportunity?
Development Opportunities Come With Risk
Risk Comes With Reward
How to Provide Development Opportunities, Safely
Selecting Development Opportunities
1. Believe
2. Ensure That the Development Opportunity Aligns to Your Team Member’s Career Direction
3. Make Sure There is Enough Support Available
4. Handle Their Business as Usual Work
5. Communicate With Relevant People About the Development Opportunity
About the Author: Ben Brearley BSc. BCM MBA DipProfCoaching

Content: Firstly, you need to make sure your support team are aware of the opportunity and that they are prepared to give their time to help. Next, you need to make sure that anyone involved in your team member’s business as usual work are told about the change in their working arrangements. Otherwise, you’ll get people pulling at your team member from all directions, expecting them to do everything. And lastly, if you are providing a development opportunity where your team member is stepping up into a higher role, you need to make that clear to the people relying on the work that needs to be done. In other words, don’t pretend that your inexperienced team member has done this before. Tell people it’s a development opportunity and what support arrangements you’ve put in place to help them succeed. Your stakeholders need to be comfortable too, because if they are relying on the work, they are also taking on risk. Learn More: 5 Communication Mistakes That Will Damage Your Leadership. —
Providing development opportunities can be one of the best things you do for your team.