Support the professional development of others
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The reporting and paperwork around management automate well. Directing, developing and evaluating people does not, and people do not accept it when it is attempted on them.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Managing, training and developing people |
| Jobs that do it | 12 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Developing and Building Teams (4.A.4.b.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 12 occupations that perform it.
- Identify educational, training, or other development opportunities for sustainability employees or volunteers.
- Encourage and support party candidates for political office.
- Participate in special education-related activities, such as attending meetings and providing support to special educators throughout the district.
- Mentor graduate students and junior colleagues.
- Mentor new faculty.
- Mentor new faculty members.
- Prepare actors for auditions by providing scripts and information about roles and casting requirements.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to other caregivers to help facilitate their professional growth and development.
- Provide staff with assistance in performing difficult or complicated duties.
- Counsel employees in work-related activities, personal growth, or career development.
- Recommend and implement measures to improve worker motivation, work methods, or customer services.
- Speak to students to encourage and support the development of future political leaders.
- Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues.
- Mentor and support administrative staff members, such as superintendents and principals.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Buy nothing. The reporting and paperwork around management run on whatever you already use for documents, and the part that is actually managing people does not automate at any price.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Enterprise platforms
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Astronomers
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
- First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
- First-Line Supervisors of Passenger Attendants
- Legislators
- Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary
- Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Talent Directors
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Provide support or encouragement to others”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.