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: 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. But only if you set them up to succeed, not to fail. Follow the guidance above and see whether you can start carving out better ways for your team members to improve their skills and progress faster on their career path. —
Have you provided development opportunities to your team? How did you go about it? What were the good, bad and ugly parts of providing them?