Leading the Way: Career Development Paths

At Kwela, our work takes us into many different organizations across a range of industries, which gives us the fortunate position of seeing common themes and challenges in the world of management and leadership. Of particular interest to me lately is career development in organizations.

It is no surprise that with an increasingly competitive environment and challenging economic times, particularly as of late, organizations in both the public and private sector are seeing slower rates of voluntary turnover and increasingly flattened hierarchical structures.

Both of these factors combine to create conditions which challenge a traditional notion of career development, i.e. promotion. As we all know, career development is not characterized by simple promotion these days. To be successful, we have to be more creative about career development these days.