Expert Skills Lab

Career is the #1 reason people leave. Can you keep them without a promotion?

Work Institute, 3,265 exit interviews, Q2 2026

You can't promote them.
You can still keep them.

You're doing your own work, leading the team and coaching, and now your best people want to know what's next. There's no promotion to give them, and you can't afford to lose them. In this hands-on lab, Julie Winkle Giulioni, author of Promotions Are SO Yesterday and co-author with Dr. Beverly Kaye of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, shows you seven ways people can grow besides moving up, and teaches you two tools to use with your team: the Multidimensional Career Self-Assessment, which shows what each person wants from their career, and the Multidimensional Career Conversation Template, which guides the conversation. You'll try both yourself, then practice a career conversation in a small group.

Led by expert Julie Winkle Giulioni
Author of Promotions Are SO Yesterday
Thursday, February 18, 2027 · 11 AM⁠–⁠12:30 PM PT · 1⁠–⁠2:30 PM CT · 2⁠–⁠3:30 PM ET 90 minutes Live on Microsoft Teams Live translated captions $345 per person Limited to 40 people Includes 60 days of AI coaching and lessons
Promotions Are SO Yesterday Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

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You'll get a calendar invite with the Teams link as soon as you register, and a reminder the day before.
Bring a question or challenge. For example: A strong performer wants a promotion I can't give. Someone on my team seems stuck. I don't know what my people want from their careers.

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Who it’s forPeople leaders facing the retention and engagement challenge of flatter organizations and fewer promotions.

What you’ll walk away with

  1. 1How to use the Multidimensional Career Self-Assessment with your team, starting with your own results
  2. 2Seven ways people can grow besides a promotion, all within your control as a manager
  3. 3A career conversation planned with the Multidimensional Career Conversation Template
  4. 4Concrete strategies for inspiring growth and engagement in those focused only on the next promotion

How the 90 minutes work

1

Learn the tools

The expert teaches the tools and shows you how to use them.

2

Practice in small groups

You work through them on the challenges people brought, with the expert coaching.

3

Leave with a plan

You keep the tools and templates to use with your team.

Live only. You keep the tools and templates.

What we’ll cover

Why Promotions Aren't the Answer

  • The gap between what people expect and what organizations can offer
  • What your people want from their careers

Seven Ways to Grow

  • Contribution, competence, connection and confidence
  • Challenge, contentment and choice

The Career Conversation

  • Using the Multidimensional Career Conversation Template
  • Low-cost development experiences you can offer now

When Someone Only Wants a Promotion

  • Keeping the conversation honest and useful

Also included

  • 60 days of follow-up support: Athena, our AI coach, short expert lessons, and a discussion board to keep working on your challenge
  • The Multidimensional Career Self-Assessment and Career Conversation Template to use with your team
Save your seatThursday, February 18, 2027 · 11 AM⁠–⁠12:30 PM PT · 1⁠–⁠2:30 PM CT · 2⁠–⁠3:30 PM ET
About the Expert
Julie Winkle Giulioni

Julie Winkle Giulioni

Author of Promotions Are SO Yesterday

Julie Winkle Giulioni helps organizations develop and keep their people. She is the author of the Amazon bestseller Promotions Are SO Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive., and co-author with Dr. Beverly Kaye of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, a widely used guide to career conversations. Her career development programs have been tested with managers at every level across a range of industries.

Books by Julie Winkle Giulioni
Promotions Are SO Yesterday Promotions Are SO Yesterday
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
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