Employee Development: Like Asking A Kindergartener What She Wants To Be When She Grows Up

Consider this: Employees at most organizations are offered a variety of development and training options—seminars on managing, brown-bags on new software, even roundtables on Using Social Media Effectively (or: Stop Blogging On Company Time). The problem, writes Chris Ferdinandi at Fistful of Talent, is that employees don’t always know what’s best for them, or even what they’d like.

He cites himself as an example:

Back in kindergarten…I wanted to be a veterinarian.

Then one day in high school I realized that I suck at biological science.

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