The events of 2020 stressed many orgs' core people strategies. As leaders revamped their approaches to employee engagement, development, retention, and more, they came to see the power of an intentional career mobility strategy.

But mobility has changed. Career mobility once simply meant moving employees upward through an org's hierarchy. Now, it's a mindset about encouraging exploration, experimentation, and growth regardless of the form it takes: sometimes movement isn't involved at all.

This research uncovered 5 different approaches to career mobility, each of which helps solve different business challenges. This infographic summarizes our report on this topic, Career Mobility: Mindset Over Movement.

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Written by

Heather Gilmartin Adams

Heather is a senior consultant at RedThread Research. Trained in conflict resolution and organizational development, Heather has spent the past ten years in various capacities at organizational culture and mindset change consultancies as well as the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She holds a masters degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a bachelors degree in history from Princeton University. She has lived in Germany, China, Japan, and India and was, for one summer, a wrangler on a dude ranch in Colorado.