Career Strategies to Get You Ahead

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Explore, chart & actively create your career path

• Gain confidence to optimise your current performance

• Increase & deploy your value for your company & its succession plan

“Anne is kind, caring, interested in personal development, genuine and a knowledgeable expert. I had wonderful knowledge sharing & personal time with Anne.”

Norah Flanagan, IS Training Manager, Balance Agri-Nutrients

“The course was positive, empowering & focused. Thank you Anne.”

Lisa Rodgers, Manager, Ministry of Education

Do you want to increase your career potential? If so, you need to plan and prepare for it. Whatever situation or point in your life or career that you may be in now, you alone have to discover the opportunities and decide on the career path that you may want to commit to in the long run.

To do that, you need to clarify and audit your values, talents, skills, knowledge etc. – just about everything you need to know about yourself to start off on the right foot, define your future contributions to your organisation and to perform at your level best.

Career Development for Professional Women has been designed to take you through several self assessments, identification, planning and branding exercises that are constructive and effective. You will emerge from the course with lots to take away with you and implement straight away. It is an introspective course that helps you identify and weigh your options whilst lifting your game and capitalising on opportunities you might have overlooked.

Attend the course and you will return to your workplace with a renewed sense of direction and confidence to take things further, create win-win situations that will benefit both you and your organisation.

GREAT REASONS TO ATTEND

You will benefit from this cutting edge training programme by:

1. Taking stock of where you are now, issues and opportunities through a personal SWOT analysis

2. Understanding and establishing the connection between values, interest, talents and personality and how they relate to your career planning

3. Assessing the work values you most want in a job and an employer

4. Identifying skill and knowledge gaps

5. Developing a career development action plan that works for you

6. Harnessing your personal power and influence for an upward trajectory

7. Learning to coach yourself and developing resilience to manage challenges and setbacks

8. Understanding how personal branding can positively impact on your performance and career 

Day One

Overview of Current Career Market

• Global career trends for women

• NZ career trends for women

Keys to Career Planning

• A blueprint for career planning

• Personal SWOT Analysis: Taking stock of where you are now, issues and opportunities

• Personal mission statement

• Clarifying your career values, talents and opportunities

Primary Factors to Identifying Your Capabilities

• How values, interests, talents and personality relate to your career planning

• Workplace Values Assessment: Do you know the work values you most want in a job and an employer

• Career Interests : Defining your future contributions to your business and beyond

• Talents: Identifying your current marketable skills and talents

• Leveraging talents to add value to your current role and to create future opportunities

• MBTI career assessment : Identifying what you are really suited to and what you can contribute to your team and organisation

Auditing Your Skills and Capabilities

• Analysing current skills, competencies and knowledge

• Identifying and marketing your transferable skills

• Identifying your blind spots and career watch-points

• Closing the gap and creating a bridge to your future

Day Two

Career Development Action Planning Guide

• Developing a framework

• Identifying barriers to success

• Creating a compelling vision for the future

• Building an action plan that really works

Negotiating & Influence For An Upward Trajectory

• Harnessing your personal power

• Becoming aware of the effect you have on other people

• Building your sphere of influence

• Managing negative responses, rejections and passive responses

Developing Resilience and Mental Toughness

• Understanding why resilience is crucial and how it works

• Where do you stand on the tenacity continuum?

• Using perspective and reframing to manage challenges and setbacks

• Keys to keeping your career on track: Self-coaching for success

Personal Branding for A Brilliant Career

• Developing a ‘Personal Branding Statement’

• Understanding what your brand is, how it would play out everyday

• How to control your personal brand to positively impact on your career choices

• Driving your performance with your personal brand