A Career Valuation is a structured conversation about what motivates one person at work and how well the organisation is delivering on it. It reads seven motivators, and each one is captured twice, once for how important that factor is to the person and once for how well their current role delivers it. A Cultural Leader inside the business runs the conversation.
Most owners can name the two or three people the business would struggle to replace. Very few can say, with evidence, what those people actually want from their work.
A Career Valuation answers that question one person at a time. The people who feel genuinely met in their work are the people who stay, and who take on more. A business that keeps and grows its people builds a leadership layer that can carry real decisions, and that is what makes a business worth more when the owner steps back. Retention and owner independence turn out to be the same problem viewed from two ends.
People do not stay in a job for one reason, so a Career Valuation reads seven. Between them they cover why people stay and why they go.
The work itself, and whether there is a career ahead of it here.
Room for the rest of a life. Family, community, recreation, health.
Whether the values of the business are clear, lived, and a match for their own.
Access to the learning the role needs and the person wants.
Real support behind them, in the role and beyond it.
Being seen for the work, and being heard in return.
Stability that fits where they actually are in life.
What sits at the top of that list for any one person moves over time, with their age, their circumstances and their financial security. The same person can give a very different reading three years apart, which is why this is a repeating conversation rather than a survey run once.
Every motivator is read twice. First, how important that factor is to the person. Second, how well their current role is delivering it. The distance between those two readings is the useful part.
A business can be doing well on something the person is not particularly motivated by, and falling short on the one thing that would keep them. A single score would hide that. Two readings on the same seven factors show a leader exactly where to put their effort, and where they are already spending it for nothing.
The conversation is held by a Cultural Leader. Cultural Leaders are people inside the business, trained to hold this conversation and to keep holding it. Two things follow from that. The conversation lands better coming from someone who works alongside the person, and the capability stays in the business afterwards. You can see how those leaders are built on cultural leadership.
In Adapt's platform, the conversation runs on the Career Valuation Tool, usually shortened to CVT. It holds the seven motivators, records both readings, and tracks how a person's answers move over time. The Career Valuation is the conversation. The CVT is where it lives. The tool sits alongside the rest of the platform.
One conversation gives a leader a clear read on one person, which is worth having on its own. Across a whole business, the answers become something larger. They are data the leadership team uses as an input into strategy and cultural initiatives, next to everything else it knows about the business.
When the same motivator comes back weak across an entire team, that is a structural problem surfacing through individual answers, and it can be addressed structurally. Culture stops being a matter of opinion at that point, which is the moment it becomes something an owner can actually lead.
The Career Valuation is one of the reads Adapt takes at the individual level during the Organisation Review, the first step of The Adapt Way.
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A Career Valuation is a structured conversation about what motivates one person at work and how well the organisation is delivering on it. It reads seven motivators, and each one is captured twice, once for how important that factor is to the person and once for how well their current role delivers it. A Cultural Leader inside the business runs the conversation.
A Career Valuation reads seven motivators. Professional Fit, Personal Fit, Cultural Fit, Training, Mentorship, Recognition and Feedback, and Financial Security. Together they cover the reasons people stay in a job and the reasons they leave one.
Two readings on every motivator. How important that factor is to the person, and how well their current role is delivering it. The distance between the two is what the conversation is for. A business can score well on something the person does not much care about while falling short on the one thing that would keep them, and only the two readings together show which is which.
A Cultural Leader. Cultural Leaders are people inside the business who are trained to hold this conversation and to keep holding it, so the capability stays in the business rather than sitting with an outside consultant.
The Career Valuation Tool, or CVT, is the feature in Adapt's platform that runs the Career Valuation. It holds the seven motivators, records both readings for each one, and tracks how a person's answers move over time. The Career Valuation is the conversation. The CVT is where it lives.
One conversation gives a leader a clear read on one person. Across a business, the answers become data the leadership team uses as an input into strategy and cultural initiatives. When the same motivator comes back weak across a whole team, that is a structural problem surfacing through individual answers, and it can be addressed structurally.
Because the people who feel genuinely met in their work are the people who stay, and who take on more. A business that keeps and grows its people builds a leadership layer that can carry real decisions, which is what makes the business worth more when the owner steps back. Retention and owner independence are the same problem viewed from two ends.
It is a repeating conversation rather than a one-off survey. What matters to a person shifts with their age, their circumstances and their financial security, so a reading taken once tells you less than a reading you can compare against the last one.
They answer different questions. A performance review looks at how well the person is delivering for the business. A Career Valuation looks at how well the business is delivering for the person, and at what that person is actually motivated by.
