In all aspects of life, people strive to attain the best for themselves.  They usually start with good intentions and high motivation, but somewhere along the way they lose focus, direction, or momentum.  This can cause them to settle for less, personally and professionally, with far-reaching consequences: low morale, mediocre performance, or poor quality work relationships.   This program will allow participants to plan their career path to attain the goals, positions, or rewards that will benefit their long-term development.  By creating a plan and managing their efforts strategically, participants will be able to navigate their course to make the most of their present roles and those they desire in the future.  Because a successful career is compatible with your unique personality, participants will evaluate their skills, values, and interests to effectively manage their work and personal lives effectively.  This is a life-long process, and goes hand-in-hand with your personal and professional development. This program allows participants to align their personal and professional development with an organization’s values and direction and to be an integral part of shared successes. Each module is  one-day long.      

 

Career Planning

Developing the Right Skills

Connecting Your Professional Dots: Networking

Creating a Personal Development Plan

Communicating Your Value

 

 

Career Planning <Back to Top>

 

Because the traditional "career ladder" has been replaced by career mobility, individuals must rely on themselves to develop their career path. This session allows participants to identify their professional objective and create the foundation for achieving that objective. A professional objective will provide them with the direction they need for their career plan, and set the tone for other communication to help them select and prioritize their contact lists and targets. Participants will identify their skills, personal characteristics, interests, and values, build a personal profile with their main competencies, and determine how those competencies can be utilized to benefit their careers and their organizations.

 

Developing the Right Skills <Back to Top>

 

In response to fundamental changes in the global economy, many organizations have changed the way they approach and organize work. In this session, participants will learn to identify and develop the right skills to match these changes and keep themselves marketable in the changing world of work. Individuals will learn the difference between "jobs for life" and "skills for life" and the value of the "multi-skilled" generalist.

 

Connecting Your Professional Dots: Networking <Back to Top>

 

Getting the message out about who you are and what you have to offer is at the heart of the career management process. The most beneficial method is talking to people in your profession, industry, organization, colleagues and friends. This technique is often called networking. The core purpose of networking is to locate and get to speak with key contacts and influential people, inside and outside of organizations. In addition, a sustained and focused communication effort will result in more referrals, more visibility and more potential opportunities. In this session, participants will begin establishing their network "target", from initial contacts to key contacts, design an action plan to implement the networking process, and establish their list of contacts in a relationship building manner.

 

Creating a Personal Development Plan <Back to Top>

 

A personal development plan identifies what you need to learn to progress in your career, and provides a framework for achieving it. In this session, participants will identify their learning needs, set their learning objectives, understand their learning style, choose which learning methods are the best method for them, and establish guidelines by which the development plan can be measured and tested.

 

Communicating Your Value <Back to Top>

 

Every discussion with managers and contacts should be considered an opportunity to communicate your value as a professional. Even if the conversation is in passing or in an informal setting, your role in the discussion should be to position your skills, talents, and experience as a solution to the challenges faced in the organizations today. Your task is to cultivate interest by helping people see you in a particular role and eventually contact you for assistance, or serve as an ally in your career management plan.

 

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