--- title: Springboards Blog | workplace description: workplace | Springboards Consulting focuses on multicultural development and coaching in writing and speaking. --- [![Springboards Consulting](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5c817d19d86cc958f70204a2/1553974083680-I8WO1M3ZXIHI8SU53B4D/springboards.png?content-type=image%2Fpng "Springboards Consulting")](http://springboardsconsulting.com) - [home](https://springboardsconsulting.com) - company - [about us](https://springboardsconsulting.com/about-us) - [coaches](https://springboardsconsulting.com/coaches) - [careers](https://springboardsconsulting.com/careers-1) - [our mission](https://springboardsconsulting.com/our-mission-1) - [why springboards?](https://springboardsconsulting.com/why-springboards) - [services](https://springboardsconsulting.com/services) - clients - [our clients](https://springboardsconsulting.com/our-clients) - [case studies](https://springboardsconsulting.com/case-studies) - [testimonials](https://springboardsconsulting.com/testimonials) - [news/blog](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com) - [contact](https://springboardsconsulting.com/contact) # Springboards Blog ## [Employee Development Takes More Than The Performance Review Process](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/make-employee-development-top-of-mind-all-year-round) Dec 19, 2019 1:16:08 PM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [Performance Reviews](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/performance-reviews), [Year-end reviews](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/year-end-reviews), [workplace](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/workplace) [0 Comments](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/make-employee-development-top-of-mind-all-year-round#comments-listing) Congratulations! In your role as a manager (or as an HR pro helping new managers), you’ve successfully recruited and onboarded a high-potential multicultural employee. And at year-end review time, you’ve carefully aligned the employee’s development needs with job competencies and future career objectives…but is that annual process enough to help them succeed? Not according to experts Beverly Kaye and Julie Guilioni, who [advocate in](https://www.help-them-grow.com/articles/idp-individual-development-plan-or-impediment-to-dialogue-and-progress/) *Help Them Grow or Watch them Go* that employee development works best when it’s top of mind *all year round*. And while this observation holds true for all employees, it is especially critical when it comes to employees whose cultural norms and communications skills present challenges that the once-a-year performance review conversation may not adequately address (see my post “[Performance Evaluations of Multicultural Employees: Three Things to Keep in Mind](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/performance-evaluations-of-multicultural-employees-three-things-managers-should-keep-in-mind-1)”). [Read More](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/make-employee-development-top-of-mind-all-year-round) ## [Inclusion Is the Key to Cross-Cultural Collaboration](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/9/13/inclusion-is-the-key-to-cross-cultural-collaboration) Sep 17, 2019 2:58:47 PM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [unconscious bias](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/unconscious-bias), [diversity training](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/diversity-training), [workplace](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/workplace), [cultural bias](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/cultural-bias), [diversity and inclusion](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/diversity-and-inclusion) [0 Comments](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/9/13/inclusion-is-the-key-to-cross-cultural-collaboration#comments-listing) ![](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/diversity_teamwork.jpg) ***The future of work is collaborative. 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