Eighty-Eight Assignments for Development in Place

Eleven Challenges Common to Developmental Experience

In our research, not just any type of experience was recalled as having been developmental. Job changes involving the same people, or similar tasks, or indefinite time frames were rarely cited. Here are the 11 most commonly cited challenges, in rough order of how often they were mentioned. Based on this research, we have concluded that for an experience to be developmental, 5 or more of these imbedded challenges are usually present.

Eleven Developmental Challenges

1.  Success and failure are both possible and will be obvious to others (some visible score or end point will tell everyone how things went). Most learning occurs of necessity; and when managers believe that the chance of failure ...