Growing at work: the importance of progression.
summary
Companies rely on bulky spreadsheets to describe career levels so teams stop leaving; eighteen months of research finds 82% open to new jobs and 27% will leave for lack of career opportunities. Practical advice: start with a tiny, team-owned framework, measure only core skills, involve managers, iterate often. Examples include Basecamp, BuzzFeed, Financial Times (API) and Medium’s Snowflake, and an actual product called Progression app now publishes public frameworks (Clearleft, Intercom) and is already being used.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and personal story
- 3:55Career progression reflections
- 7:09The problem with job titles
- 8:12Maslow’s hierarchy at work
- 10:18Problems with spreadsheets
- 12:07Building a progression framework
- 13:28Level one: Starting from scratch
- 15:57Level two: Moving fast
- 18:03Level three: Alignment and integration
- 20:10Key takeaways for leaders
- 21:13Progression app announcement
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