Developing your experts

What are the possibilities?


Context

Developing your experts
- Difficulty in recruiting and retaining high-level experts.
- A certain demographic deficiency associated with a disaffection for scientific professions and engineering.
- A search for experts that is taking on a more international dimension.
- In-company career development that very often involves the exercise of a management function.

A dual challenge for Human Resources Divisions:

- To succeed in recruiting high-level experts for specific areas of work,
- To propose development programmes that take into account the needs of the organization and also people's aspirations.

The key challenges for expert functions

- Maintaining expertise at the highest level.
- Sharing and transmitting this expertise.
- Knowing how to communicate with "non-experts".
- Mobilizing one's expertise in order to make effective decisions.
- Knowing how to associate technical expertise and leadership in order to mobilize talent and energy.

Leadership competencies to deploy in order to meet these challenges

- Detecting tomorrow's experts and supporting their development.
- Moving out of one's competency comfort zone and entering the reference framework of a "non-expert" correspondent.
- Identifying and promoting useful information for decision-makers.
- Developing a real power of influence and persuasion.
- Shifting the core of one's legitimacy from technical competence towards leadership.
- Knowing how to analyze the organization and develop one's network.

The most common requirements and expectations of these populations

- How can I ensure that people who are not familiar with my field of expertise understand what I am talking about?
- How can I get non-expert mangers to make decisions that are technically valid?
- How can get people from different fields of expertise to cooperate on complex projects?
- How can I enjoy a successful career in the organization without having to occupy a management post?
- How can I remain technically competent in my field of expertise even though I am taking up a management post?

Different types of support:

- A specific development programme.
- Coaching for a team of experts.
- Group coaching.
- Practice supervision: the CARRIED® process.
- Individual coaching.

Rédigé par Isabel BORNET le Jeudi 29 Juillet 2010 à | Lu 328 fois




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