- Mentoring Relationships—essential to developing leaders in a company, whether the relationships are formal or informal. The people who grow in any organization and aspire to higher positions generally have had mentoring relationships throughout their careers.
- Cross-Organizational Assignments—experiences that go on outside of a person’s specific job role. IT staffers need to appreciate the importance of networking with people across and outside IT, because you never know what the next assignment will be.
- Outside Associations—with any number of organizations, whether industry-related, research groups or educational associations. What’s important is that employees are getting an appreciation of the outside world.
- Enterprise View—broadening employees’ perspectives as they go up the ranks. Incentives for establishing an enterprise view are important for job effectiveness.
- Committee or Governance Board—participation broadens IT staffers’ enterprise views and shows them the dynamics of governance and how things get done inside a company.
- Job Rotation—crucial because an employee in a job for a long time tends not to develop as effectively as someone who moves across different roles and responsibilities.
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