In my work with organsiations over many years I’ve been struck by the numbers of professionals who enjoy deploying their specialist skill set, and who want to grow in their impact, influence and value, but don’t wish to follow a generalist career path into people leadership roles – subject matter experts such as lawyers, auditors, project and product managers, engineers, finance and ICT specialists to name a few. Sadly, senior level learning is often focused exclusively on people leaders. The technical cohort can have very limited exposure to development opportunities, or they’re corralled into unsuitable people development programs, and as a result their value to their organisation is often lost.
Expertunity is an evidence-based framework which addresses this gap by identifying the unique competencies that enable specialists to thrive and to add maximum value to their company regardless of their technical domain. The framework incorporates a unique Expertship competency model and a range of developmental programs and strategies targeted specifically at Subject Matter Experts as distinct from people leaders.
Mastering Expertship programs have been run successfully over a number of years in Australia, New Zealand and globally, with program evaluation results showing both participant and organisational benefits including
- Technical experts adding far more value to their organisation
- Retention of top technical talent
- Avoidance of single-point-of failure expertise gaps
- Re-energising long-term technical employees
- Re-engagement of demotivated or cynical technical experts.
In March this year my colleagues and I delivered the first 5 day Mastering Expertship program for technical experts here in Adelaide. The program was extremely successful, receiving a net promotor score (NPS) of 78. Participants included scientists, HR experts, IT specialists, engineers and planners. Feedback from both participants and line managers of the experts has been so positive we have planned a second Mastering Expertship program to be run face to face in Adelaide in October.
The program will be facilitated by two experienced local facilitators, myself Jo Saies and Wendy Taylor. We would be looking at a program of 12-16 participants with a minimum of 2 per agency, and wanting to confirm participant names by early August.
Attached is a brief overview of the Mastering Expertship program and a guide to selecting participants.
Would you be interested in finding out more?
If this is something worth exploring further as a development option for your subject matter experts please book a 30 minute call to provide some more context and answer and questions.
Thanks for your interest in Expertship
Jo
