Julie Winkle Giulioni - Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

Expand your horizonsand those of your employees! We know that promotions are so yesterday, and yet we all fall in the trap of constantly confusing growth with positions. This book offers an updated road map for anyone who wants to develop themselves and their teams toward reaching their full career potential with tools and strategies within any leaders control.

Ingrid Urman, Director, School of Management, TenarisUniversity, Tenaris

At a time when human connection is more critical than ever and harder to achieve, Julie has pulled together a practical field guide that busy managers can leverage to increase their teams capabilities and personal career satisfaction, regardless of physical proximity.

Heather Hoerdemann, Vice President, Team HR, and Head of Talent, Synopsys

This book is required reading for HR professionals and managers in every industry! Promotions Are So Yesterday offers a powerful and insightful new look at how leaders can approach career development in a way that inspires and motivates their employees.

Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author, Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Wont Get You There

Once again Julie brings amazing content for people managers who care about employee satisfaction and retention. Promotions Are So Yesterday empowers managers to adopt a new mindset around career development. Well-organized and to the point, the book also provides rich resources to support practical application.

Marissol Mello Alves, PhD, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Career Development

This book cracks the career development code for leaders and managers. By showing how to think outside the promotion box, Julie provides a plethora of practical possibilities for anyone who cares about development.

Bev Kaye, Co-Author, Up Is Not the Only Way, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, and Love Em or Lose Em

Julie uses employee insights and feedback to challenge people leaders and HR to reframe the why, what, and how of career development. She offers a playbook of research-backed tools that will help all leaders become better career coaches, developers, and facilitators.

Mark Rhein, Director, Talent and Learning, Glaukos

Julie has created a compelling story that resonates for leaders who want to create rock stars in the workplace by focusing on their most important responsibilitygrowing their team members. Promotions Are So Yesterday is not only a great read, it includes tools and strategies to support you in your journey of helping your team develop their best version of themselves, no matter what title they have.

Allan J. Klassen, Chief Experience Officer, Brookfield Residential Properties

If youre a manager who genuinely cares about helping your employees thrive, this is the book for you. With a keen understanding of how contemporary organizations really work, Julie Winkle Giulioni shows you the exact strategies you can use to engage and develop your team to the fullest.

Dorie Clark, Author, Reinventing You; Executive Education Faculty, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

Your employees may not want to play the game or even climb the ladder, but they dont want to get left behind either. What they want is a career to be proud of, one of contribution and fulfillment. This practical book will help you coach them to do that on their own terms.

Michael Bungay Stanier, Bestselling Author, The Coaching Habit

In Promotions Are So Yesterday, Julie captures the realities of todays workplace: Possibilities are the new promotion! This book is filled with tips, tricks, and tools for framing an engaging multidimensional approach to career development. The practical and example-based guidance for managers, who often dread career conversations, demystifies how to partner with employees to provide the development they crave.

Melinda Kirk, General Counsel and Vice President of HR, GDH Consulting

If we dont make development our practice, then our employees will go to companies that do. Julie Winkle Giulioni gives you the canvas to make true development of your talent viable, applicable, and realistic. Grab this book and practice the Cs with yourself and your people. Youll see the results!

Steve Browne, SHRM-SCP, Chief People Officer, LaRosas; Author, HR on Purpose!! and HR Rising!!

In her remarkable new book, Julie Winkle Giulioni provides seven dimensions to help employees grow and find meaningful, rich, and varied experiences in their careers. For managers wishing to support growth aspirations of their teams, this book is a treasure chest of ideas to help employees see that career growth goes beyond the ladder. I highly recommend this book and am keen to start introducing the seven dimensions at my company.

Lucy Chaddha, Senior Director, TMP Innovation and Learning, Salesforce

Promotions Are So Yesterday offers sage advice that is spot on and to the point, especially in todays chaotic work environment. Promotions at work are certainly wonderful, but people hunger for so much more. Julie Winkle Giulioni has beautifully crafted a clear and practical approach to meeting this challenge in a way that engenders engagement, high performance, and retention. A worthy effort and a more worthy read.

Doug Conant, Founder and CEO, ConantLeadership; Bestselling Author, The Blueprint; Former CEO, Campbell Soup Company

Consistent with Julies gift for cutting through the chaos and offering reality-based solutions, this book offers a fresh and immediately actionable alternative to outdated ways of thinking about careers. Finally, a way to democratize development and empower a workforce capable of changing the world. Leaders who embrace this multidimensional approach to career development will enrich their organizations as well as the broader business community. Making change for good happens one person at a time, and Promotions Are So Yesterday offers the framework and resources to enable leaders to help everyone reach their greatest potential and thrive.

Carrie Rich, CEO, The Global Good Fund

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