In this episode, presented by Teknion, ThinkLab interviews Dost Bardouille, Director of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility of Swinerton, and Nina Johnson, Senior Commercial Insights Manager at Armstrong Craven. They discuss the pitfalls of traditional mentorship and explore three additional solutions for career development and upskilling your talent in a modern era. Accredited for: IDCEC | 0.5 CEU.  

After listening, you will be able to:

• Identify a key shift impacting career development today 
• Compare three new methods used for engagement.
• Assess the D.E.I. benefits of champions 
• Summarize the 7 considerations needed in designing a shadow board.  

In part one, we sit down with Dost Bardouille of Swinerton to evaluate the pitfalls of traditional career development and compare two new methods of connection: sponsorship and champions. In part two, we sit down with Nina Johnson of Armstrong Craven to identify how implementing a shadow board, a tactic that major fashion house Gucci used, can provide employees with high-level engagement and, in turn, prove long-term success for a company's growth.  

Want CEU credit for listening? Take the quiz and earn your certificate of completion.

• How it works: Step 1: Listen to the episode. 
• Step 2: Visit this link to take a short, 5-question quiz. *Scoring an 80% or above on the quiz will earn you 0.5 CEU 
• Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion from CEU provider Teknion. 

Connect with our expert guests on LinkedIn:

• Nina Johnson 
• Dost Bardouille 

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