3. Manager-Supported Career Development with Nick Denstaedt

In this episode of Office Hours, we continue our series on career development, exploring the ways managers can enable, support, and guide the career development of their direct reports. I’m joined by Nick Denstaedt, a talent management leader with a background in operations, systems improvement, and industrial-organizational psychology.Nick and I discuss how managers can more intentionally develop their people through better conversations, clearer follow-through, stretch opportunities, and everyday curiosity. We also discuss job crafting, experience mapping, psychological safety, and why making time for development may be one of the most strategic things a manager can do. The episode is chock-full of practical tips and insights for managers engaging in this process to act with agency and to enable better individual and organizational outcomes. Episode Mentions, Notes, and LinksBelow are some informational resources related to things mentioned in this episode.SMART goalshttps://www.ucop.edu/local-human-resources/_files/performance-appraisal/How+to+write+SMART+Goals+v2.pdf70-20-10 rulehttps://hr.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/70-20-10_2.pdfhttps://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/70-20-10-rule/Experience Mapping (article by Marc Effron)https://talentstrategygroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Using-Expereince-Maps-.pdfThe paper on team charters Nick referenced at the end of the episode:Mathieu, J. E., & Rapp, T. L. (2009). Laying the foundation for successful team performance trajectories: The roles of team charters and performance strategies. The Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(1), 90–103. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013257Find Nick Denstaedt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-denstaedtEpisode Transcript A happy update: I've been notified that Spotify has enabled transcripts for Office Hours at The Alignment Lab! Though I do not know yet how long it takes for those become available, I do understand them to be auto-generated by the platform. A transcript of the episode that I have reviewed is available on my website here: Episode 3 Transcript Music: "Feel Good (Instrumental Version)" by PØW⁠ via Epidemic SoundEditorial NoteThis episode had its fair share of unexpected technical challenges leading to some audio disruption, which I did my best to mitigate. I do apologize for any annoyances for the listener, but in the end I chose to post the episode anyways because I believe the content discussed was too high quality to sit on. I do humbly ask for your understanding as I endeavor to get better on the audio engineering/producing aspect of podcasting! At the end of the day, I hope you get as much out of this conversation as I did.