Career Development as Risk Management Strategy

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

  Career Development   Risk Management   Talent Management  

Within an IT-based organization, there are many forms of risk management to consider. cyber-based security threats, service and system outages, implementation failures, and those faithful old legacy applications that no one knows how to patch and everyone is afraid to touch.

Although “lack of career development” doesn’t make the risk management list, it’s one of the greatest hazards that an organization can face. Unlike other risks that have triggers, alarms and all sorts of dashboards that help call attention to a variety of issues, career development doesn’t have any indicators that help staff recognize when there is a problem starting to form until it’s too late.

When it shows up, it has swift and painful ramifications—usually right after your best team members resign, when your projects slow to a stumble, and nobody recalls how “critical systems” actually work.

Ignoring career development in your organization is like ignoring a persistent and long-lasting body pain after a workout. It may not seem like a problem until it becomes one.

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