Minnesota Career Development Association (MCDA) - Organizational Career Development Special Interest Group (SIG)

Organizational Career Development
Special Interest Group (SIG)

MCDA's Organizational Career Development SIG — a collaboration with the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) — discusses topics related to career planning practitioners and ways to provide career planning resources to employees of organizations.

The Organizational Career Development SIG meets over breakfast on the third Friday of every month (except December) from 8-9:30 a.m. at the Double Tree Hotel, in the Dover Restaurant (1500 Park Place, St. Louis Park).

2008 Schedule

January 18: How do you measure the impact of employee and career development to the bottom line?

February 15: How do organizations recruit and retain people of color?

March 14: Tom Bodin – Workforce and economic development. (Falls on second week of March due to Good Friday on March 21)

April 18: How do internal career development professionals handle the conflict between serving the needs of the company versus the employee?

May 16: How do career development professionals get into their positions – planned or happenstance?

June 20: How do you educate employees on how to do career development?

July 18: What is successful career development? Share personal stories of successful transitions.

August 15: Show and tell – Technology resources and vendors for career development.

September 19: How do organizations use their career development programs to attract employees?

October 17: What are successful strategies to get managers to be effective career coaches?

November 21: How do you retain employees in flat organizations?