{"id":5500,"date":"2014-06-03T09:11:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T09:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2014-06-03T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T09:11:44","slug":"learn-from-ge-how-not-to-approach-mid-career-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2014\/06\/03\/learn-from-ge-how-not-to-approach-mid-career-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn from GE: How not to approach mid-career development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/training.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/training-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"training\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\n\nI read this post \u201c<a title=\"How GE Trains\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/2014\/05\/how-ge-trains-more-experienced-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How GE Trains More Experienced Employees<\/a>\u201d with great interest.\n\nFocusing on \u201cmid-career\u201d development is a useful and important topic. Very little attention has been paid to mid-career development, whether the people in question are new hires or long-time employees within a given organization.\n\nHowever, the lessons outlined in the post are weak and present a typical \u201ccorporate\u201d perspective of \u201cdevelopment.\u201d They offer little insight into how these more experienced people learn, or how the new neuroscience of learning changes leadership development.\n\nFrom our more than 15 years of experience in improving organizational performance, much of which was grooming mid-career personnel\u2014both new hires and long-time employees\u2014it\u2019s clear that mid-career personnel think and learn differently than less experienced people.\n\nMid-career personnel are:\n\n\n<ul>\n\t\n\n<li>More purpose driven. They\u2019re clearer about the greater good they want to achieve and are more willing and able to align their personal purpose with an organization\u2019s collective purpose.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n\t\n\n<li>Intensely self-directed learners. They teach themselves well if they\u2019re given the opportunity to create their own learning programs, which always include a good mix of theoretical models and practical application.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n\t\n\n<li>Confident because of their past experiences. They simply know more about organizations and life and can immediately make significant contributions to organizations.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\nBased on these three concepts, we\u2019ve provided many transformational programs\u2014for executives, mid-level managers, first line managers, and individual contributors. In these programs, 90 percent of the participants became star performers and great leaders.\n\nThe general topic of the post is good, but the program itself is out of date. Get current, GE!]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,403],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Learn from GE: How not to approach mid-career development - Cerebyte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2014\/06\/03\/learn-from-ge-how-not-to-approach-mid-career-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Learn from GE: How not to approach mid-career development - 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