Expertship

What do you want to ask? Organizations spend millions developing more effective people leaders. Technical specialists don't get that support. This creates the great talent divide. Organizations are robbed of value, and experts of potential and aspiration. It is time to bridge the talent divide. We need to change the way organizations understand the... potential of experts. EXPERTS ARE BECOMING more and more important to the organizations that employ them. Increasingly, we live in the Age of the Expert. Most organizations rely on an increasing population of talented technical experts who do ever more specialized work. This work typically keeps the organizations functioning. In other words, the experts work is mission critical, even though, for a considerable portion of the organizations workforce, their work is often invisible. Experts are increasingly at the epicenter of innovation and value-creation in their organizations. If they arent, they ought to be. Ask any chief information officer, chief risk officer, head of engineering, or indeed the chief of any technical function, and they will tell you that finding the right technical experts is extremely difficult and often very expensive. Thus, hanging on to the best experts and keeping them happy is imperative. However, our research and our experience of working with many technical experts around the world shows that many experts are not happy. Experts are often deployed in the same technical role for many years, roles that frequently become unchallenging and uninteresting for the expert over time. Experts are often constrained by their workload and the lack of understanding of their ability to add extra valuevalue they know they could create for their organization if they were given the chance. Experts often lack any semblance of a well-thought-out career path. People leaders have well-developed leadership pathways in most medium to large organizations, while experts typically have no Expertship pathways. In short, many high-performing and high-potential ...Read More