Hear you co-worker's possible reticence
Some co-workers may find it pointless to speak about the future
with their manager: from fear of being disappointed, harboring
grievances, feeling unappreciated... You must then "read between
the lines" and understand what their message is. Not in order to
justify yourself or even to offer a new response but to show that you
hear them, and to start afresh by explaining the aim of
the career development meeting.
Make employability a key subject
The term employability is sometimes taboo. However, it clearly
expresses a responsibility that is shared between the co-worker and the
enterprise. The career development meeting offers the
opportunity to demystify it, making it a everyday topic by
coming back to its definition: "the maintenance and development of
employees' skills, and of conditions of human resources
management, which make it possible to obtain a position, inside
or outside the enterprise, in a reasonable amount of time and under
favorable conditions." (*)
(*) "Developing employability", Alain FINOT
Establish a direct link between development and training
We sometimes think "training" before we think
"position-development-skills to acquire" -- this is reasoning about the
means while the objective and what it will take to reach it are not yet
defined. The purpose of the career development meeting is to
link training to a project. It becomes a means, not an end in itself.