Hello and welcome to Radical Cander, a podcast from Panoply and Gretchen Rubin's Onward Project.

Radical Cander is about how not to hate the boss you have or be the boss you hate.

I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Cander, Inc.

And author of Radical Cander,

be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity.

Can't wait for that book to come out, by the way.

Yeah, you and me both.

And I'm Russ Larraway, also co-founder of Cander, Inc.

And career-long operational manager across the Marines, Google, and Twitter.

So in this episode, we're going to talk about a technique and you can use to build great relationships with the people on your team, career conversations.

If you have career conversations, you can build a much stronger team because you'll better

understand what motivates the people on your team, what motivates them at work, and you'll have a much better sense for where they're trying to go in their career.

So throughout this episode, we will tell some stories that show why career conversations are

needed and talk about what career conversations even are. We're going to talk about how

managers employees participate together in career conversations.

And we'll wrap up with the candor checklist, just like we always do.

I love that part, by the way.

Me too.

Yeah, that's awesome.

It's always so, like, tangible.

Got to know what to do differently.

Change in behavior.

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