
Engage in introspection, set career goals, and leverage mentorship to coach your employees through strategic career development.
Managers shape their teams' futures by holding quarterly career development conversations, giving feedback, advocating for growth, and connecting employees with mentors.
Map your career as a visual journey from starting point to goal destination, noting stops, changes of direction, lateral moves, and jumps, using the provided map template.
Guide managers and teams in career development with a wall-climbing mindset, recognizing careers aren’t linear, allowing sideways moves, leaps, and ongoing goal re-evaluation to uncover meaningful paths.
Explore diverse career paths through real-life moves and pivots, as Udemy employees share lessons in learning, customer service, and skill-building across marketing, design, and engineering.
Identify four career moves—promotional opportunities, lateral roles, expanded roles on other teams, and new roles at a different level—and learn how managers coach employees to choose the best path.
Explore Peak Experiences to uncover motivation, strengths, opportunities, and career values, clarify your career direction, and start setting goals while learning to coach others through the process.
Identify your peak experiences to uncover your gifts, values, and motivating factors, then analyze moments of flow, creativity, collaboration, and leadership to navigate toward your ideal career.
Analyze your peak experiences to identify common themes and traits, compare them with valleys, and align future work with what motivates you.
Identify your career values by analyzing peak experiences and select your top five from a 31-value list to align your current role with what you value most.
Guide employees through peak experiences activity with a pre-work worksheet identifying peaks and valleys. Use coaching—open-ended questions and active listening—to explore top values and frame future growth with Grow.
Learn to set actionable career goals using the GROW model—goal, reality, options, and will—guided by a worksheet to drive effective manager–employee career conversations.
Coach your employees to set career goals through deliberate, focused conversations and open-ended questions that empower growth, action, and sustained improvement.
Develop active listening in coaching by applying the four rs: respect, real time, relate, reflect, and adapt open-ended questions to employee responses.
Facilitate mentorship as a manager by helping employees identify mentors and drive one-to-one learning through goals, experiences, networks, and coaching techniques.
Move from manager to mentor by turning employee goals from GROW activity into opportunities, and connect them with mentors and learning options such as books, workshops, and Udemy for Business.
Managers drive career development through regular one-on-one conversations and the GROW model. Encourage peak experiences, mentorship, and ongoing reflection to support employee growth.
Navigating your career can be tough, and helping your employees navigate their careers can be even tougher. However, employees are much more likely to leave their jobs if not given an opportunity to talk about their careers, so as a manager it’s imperative that you learn how to do this. In this course, you will learn a three step method for talking to your employees about their career development, involving introspection, goal setting, and mentorship. You will also learn how to use coaching and mentorship to guide your employees and colleagues through the activities from the course to help them develop their careers.
This course is designed for people managers who have one or more direct reports, to help you learn how to coach and mentor your employees through conversations about their career, identify their values, and set goals. To do this, you will first reflect on your own values, set your career goals, and identify a mentor to help you achieve those goals. By completing these activities for yourself first, you will build empathy with your employees and be better prepared to coach them through the activities.
We’ll start the course by talking about career development today, how the idea of career development has changed over time, and types of career moves. Next, we’ll go into introspection, where you’ll complete an activity called Peak Experiences to reflect on the times in your career when you felt most engaged and identify career values. From there, we’ll work through a goal setting method called GROW to set career goals that align with your values and peak experiences. Finally, we’ll talk about mentorship, why it’s important to helping you achieve your goals, and how you can identify a mentor for yourself and act as a mentor for your employees.
By taking this course you are taking a meaningful step in navigating your career in a positive direction that engages you and makes you feel excited about your work. The tools and methods for reflecting on your career that are presented in this course will be useful to you for a long time, and are meant to be revisited continuously as you grow and develop your career. So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started!