I invest in you and you give me your soul (5 years work contract etc).
We don't make contracts obligating the employee to stay after the study period. Why?
"CFO asks CEO: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave us?”
And the CEO answers: “What happens if we don’t, and they stay?”
I haven't found the author of this story, but within each of us there is a little bit of a CFO-mindset. We don't want to cultivate what we're going to lose.
Sometimes we get so attached to development that we want to keep it to ourselves. We cling so much that we are willing to pay the price of giving up development for the simple fear of losing.
However, it is not as simple as it seems. First because it involves emotions and second because it involves investment. Investing generates a different relationship than not earning. And it's this upside and trade-off that we want to change the lens we see.
A pact is much more valuable than a contract, is a commitment and to decide to tighten our belts, we have to gain the freedom to choose the journey and embark on it.