Golden handcuffs are the state of being so skilled and well-compensated at your work that you’re stuck-the company needs you, so they’ll do and pay whatever it takes to get you to stay. That’s not just boring and unfulfilling for workers-it holds them back from achieving their goals.
What Is Talent Mobility?
Making it easy and encouraged for people (especially high-performing ones) to move around your company.
- Creates a culture of cooperation, collaboration, and innovation, resulting in better employee engagement, greater job satisfaction, reduced turnover costs, and improved productivity.
Can Moving Sideways Help You Move Up?
Lateral career moves offer the challenge of applying your skills to a different part of your organization or a new industry
- A chance to work at a company more aligned with your values
- Digital dexterity has become one of the most critical facets of a business
- Getting it right can turn a sluggish, old-fashioned team into a digital powerhouse that can adapt to anything
Mobility Now
Letting people move around your company creates agility, and that’s essential to thrive in today’s fast-paced business world.
- It’s no longer realistic for companies to seek out and hire new people whenever their needs change. Today’s employees have thousands of opportunities at their fingertips 24/7. People will simply leave if you don’t provide them with opportunities.
Go Forth And Be Mobile
As the business world has become more complex, competitive, and data-driven, smart management has increasingly become about giving power and autonomy back to a company’s people.
- Let people seek out opportunities they find most exciting and engaging, or let your mission-driven team use their expertise to determine how best to achieve a goal.
Start With Managers
Despite (usually) good intentions, managers are the greatest barrier to cultures of mobility
- The solution is to make it a normal, expected fact of company life for people to bop around to new teams, roles, and function where they’re needed-or even just ones they’re interested in
What Is an Agile Organization?
Using Trello to Transform Your Organization’s Workflows
- Embracing a new system across an entire company is never easy, especially when you’re enterprise-sized.
- With the right solutions and processes in place, that transformation can be easier-helping teams and individuals fall into a new, agile way of working
Promote Transparency
Bring all your opportunities for internal job-hopping, recruiting, and promotions right out into the open
- Managers should take time out once a month to connect with their people, sharing projects, tasks, and open positions
- This culture of acceptance will also erase the judgment and stigma that can sometimes crop up when striving for internal mobility
Leverage data
There’s a reason businesses of yesteryear were run in these restrictive silos-because it’s much, much, simpler to operate that way.
- That’s not to say it’s confusing or stressful to actually work in a high-mobility organization. It does take a little more planning, and maybe some software magic.
