Career Conversations That Don’t Suck: The Antidote to Attrition | Antoinette Oglethorpe | #TGV634

Jul 9, 2025

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Summary

In this episode, Antoinette Oglethorpe, a leadership development expert, discusses the importance of career conversations in organizations. She highlights the common pitfalls in how companies handle career development and emphasizes the need for meaningful dialogues between managers and employees. Antoinette shares practical tools and models to facilitate these conversations, especially in the post-pandemic hybrid work environment. The discussion also touches on the significance of discovering purpose within roles and building a mentoring culture in organizations.

Takeaways

Career conversations are essential for employee engagement and retention.

Many organizations treat career development as a tick-box exercise.

Post-pandemic, there's a greater need for empathetic career conversations.

Effective career conversations involve reflecting on the past and dreaming about the future.

Managers should ask powerful questions to facilitate career discussions.

Purpose in work can be discovered through reflection on past achievements.

Mentoring doesn't have to be time-consuming; it can be integrated into daily interactions.

Employees often feel stuck in roles they have outgrown; empathy is key to helping them.

Career aspirations should focus on experiences rather than job titles.

Antoinette's journey into career conversations was inspired by her own career transition.

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