Synopsis

This Playbook is for you if, as a public sector manager, you are concerned about any of the following workforce needs:

  • Recruitment and retention of talented employees
  • Transition support (e.g., onboarding, automation, retirement planning, etc.)
  • Development of new leadership candidates and skill sets
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Career agility, resilience and mobility
  • Reskilling or upskilling that is increasingly needed in the rapidly changing world of work
  • Safeguarding and improvement of mental health and well-being
  • Fostering diversity, equity and inclusion

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Author(s)

Lisa Taylor

Publisher

CERIC

ISBN

978-1-988066-64-6

Past Conversations:


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    Retain and Gain: Career Management for Non-Profits and Charities Playbook

    Retain and Gain: Career Management for Small Business Playbook

    Articles and media

    “Empowering public servants through effective career management” Policy Options, September 21, 2021
    “Canada’s Public Service Employee Survey 2020 says: employees happier and former top agencies still on top,” The Hill Times, June 21, 2021
    “Effective public sector career management serves all Canadians” CareerWise, June 9, 2021
    “Lisa Taylor on using career management to attract, retain and engage staff in the public sector” All in a Day with Alan Neal, CBC Ottawa Radio, June 8, 2021
    “Retain and Gain for Public Sector Leaders: Integrating DEI into Career Management” Challenge Factory, May 11, 2021

    Also in the Retain and Gain Series:

    Retain and Gain: Career Management for Non-Profits and Charities Playbook

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    This Playbook is for you if, as a public sector manager, you are concerned about any of the following workforce needs:

    • Recruitment and retention of talented employees
    • Transition support (e.g., onboarding, automation, retirement planning, etc.)
    • Development of new leadership candidates and skill sets
    • Knowledge transfer
    • Career agility, resilience and mobility
    • Reskilling or upskilling that is increasingly needed in the rapidly changing world of work
    • Safeguarding and improvement of mental health and well-being
    • Fostering diversity, equity and inclusion

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    About the Author 

    Lisa Taylor is President of Challenge Factory and the Centre for Career Innovation. She is the author of The Talent Revolution: Longevity and the Future of Work, the Retain and Gain series of Career Management Playbooks and The Canadian Guide for Hiring Veterans.

    Articles and media

    “Empowering public servants through effective career management” Policy Options, September 21, 2021
    “Canada’s Public Service Employee Survey 2020 says: employees happier and former top agencies still on top,” The Hill Times, June 21, 2021
    “Effective public sector career management serves all Canadians” CareerWise, June 9, 2021
    “Lisa Taylor on using career management to attract, retain and engage staff in the public sector” All in a Day with Alan Neal, CBC Ottawa Radio, June 8, 2021
    “Retain and Gain for Public Sector Leaders: Integrating DEI into Career Management” Challenge Factory, May 11, 2021

    About the authors

    Lisa Taylor is President of Challenge Factory and the Centre for Career Innovation. She is the author of The Talent Revolution: Longevity and the Future of Work, the Retain and Gain series of Career Management Playbooks and The Canadian Guide for Hiring Veterans.

    Reviews

    Review 01

    Isabelle Racine
    Executive Director and Valérie Plourde, Regional Lead, Quebec & Nunavut, National Managers’ Community, Government of Canada

    “This Playbook is full of resources that managers and staff can use to help create more meaningful career development experiences. It provides the information and practical tools to retain and engage employees and leaders. It also offers simple steps that can be customized to individual needs and aspirations in order to grow the talent we need to best serve the public as public servants. We especially appreciated the concrete tips for managers and the abundance of additional resources.”  

    Review 02

    Susan Osborne, CCDP, Career Development Consultant, Province of Nova Scotia

    “Absolutely excellent publication! As with the other Playbooks in the series, the engaging travel guide metaphor and format makes this a very useful resource. I’m impressed with how well the career development guidance has been adapted to and customized for the public service context and I believe managers across the public sector will feel it speaks to their reality. It’s uniqueness as a guide for Canadian public service managers – on a topic of such importance to employee engagement and organizational culture – will make it an instant hit.”  
     
     

    Review 03

    Tony Haddad and Jim Pine, Co-Chairs, ONWARD – Building Tomorrow’s Ontario Municipal Leaders

    “Attracting, retaining and developing the next generation of municipal staff leaders must be a priority to meet the needs of our cities and towns. In light of the disruptive change that will face municipal workforces over the next decade, this Playbook helps to mobilize talent through practical career management strategies that reduce skills gaps and enable responsiveness. Managers will find this to be an invaluable and easy-to-implement guide to leading more engaged teams.”  

    Review 04

    Dan Pontefract, best-selling author of Lead. Care. Win. and Open to Think

    “Retain and Gain masterfully connects the dots between career management and a meaningful employment path in Canada’s public sector. If you’re looking for a helpful travel guide that assists your career journey, this excellent Playbook is it.”  

    Review 05

    Rachel Haché and Nathalie Thériault, Co-chairs of the Interdepartmental Career Community of Practice, Public Service of Canada

    “As career development professionals, we often hear that managers are afraid to have career conversations with their employees because they do not want to create expectations, lose talent, or they simply don’t know how. We refer to managers as career enablers and we believe that effective talent management begins with managers having career conversations with every single employee. We love this Playbook because it includes navigation tools that will equip managers with the career coaching skills, inclusive and agile career mindsets, and practical know-how needed to initiate career conversations with confidence.” students, helping them develop various facets of their lives, including healthy habits, social and emotional skills, self-confidence, and more, as they prepare to embrace their future.”

    Review 06

    Alastair MacFadden, Executive in Residence at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and Former Deputy Minister, Government of Saskatchewan

    “Public sector managers are in the driver’s seat of a leadership journey. Guiding a team to serve the public interest is not straightforward. It’s no small task for any leader to invite creativity, and support resilience and results. The circumstances for public managers are especially challenging. You are navigating obstacles, changing conditions, roadblocks, speed limits and frustrating traffic signals. The directions can sometimes put you on the wrong path while at other times they are ambiguous. Managers are maneuvering the heavy traffic of competing priorities in a vehicle whose dashboard offers limited information. The brakes are sticky. Your budget can offer fuel but maintenance or an upgrade can be tough to justify. What’s more, your passengers are with you but can get frustrated, restless and even car sick. This Playbook is designed to support your journey with compassion for your reality. The travel guide format satisfies a hunger for bite-sized, practical advice to super-charge relationships in a way that mobilizes progress. These tips will help you succeed by engaging the full capacity and talent of a diverse team. Whether you’re a veteran or beginner, you’ll find ideas to build your confidence and competence for the road ahead.”  

    Review 07

    Doug Ball, Executive Director, Ontario Municipal Social Services Association

    “I found it a very interesting read, very appropriate and easy to follow. Looking back at my own career and the many leaders who inspired me through my journey in the public sector, I now realize they employed many of the actions steps identified within this Playbook and I am glad they did.”