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Managing your
own career - don't make the 9 to 5 a black hole, make the
working day count by maximising your success at work
The aim of these services is to help you
reach the work goals you want to achieve.
Specifically this can include,
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setting work & career goals
that are right for you |
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making the right career decision |
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managing the challenges of
professional life effectively |
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building on strengths and managing
weaknesses |
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developing and maintaining
sufficient motivation and focus to reach your goals. |
There are a lot of websites on the net
describing career development services for people. What makes us
different? Our approach is to draw upon the evidence base of
occupational and organisational psychology, utilise the
insights gained from our counselling and management
experience and take a coaching approach to motivate you to
get things done!
The services we offer will, between them, give you a much
greater understanding of your strengths and career development
needs, the type of work environment in which you are likely
to thrive, the tasks that will energise you and how to
enhance your work performance. The new understanding and skill
you have gained should allow you to take a pro-active
approach to your career, enable you to play to your
strengths, and help you to predict more successfully how a
career decision will turn out - for example, which jobs to
reject and which to go for! In addition, through a thorough
understanding of your personal style, we can help you to
manage your weaknesses and enhance your performance.
We aim to be grounded and very practical.
We will help you utilise this information in a way that is
relevant to you. You may want a career change but have
little idea of what you would like to do, we can come up
with a list of career areas and occupations for which you
would be most suited. We will also be able to give you
information on training, for example. Basically, we will
provide the career information that you will need to make
the most of your new insight and the impetus for action that
will get you where you want to be.
With the working world rapidly changing,
gaining insight into yourself will give you a competitive
edge.
Below we have bullet pointed the broad
concerns that people come to us with:
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Career
decision issues
This is designed for individuals looking to start
their career, switch careers or jobs, handle
redundancy constructively, or seriously re-consider
earlier decisions and current career paths.
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I am looking to change direction, but
to what?
I think I know what career I want to change to, but I am
not sure if its realistic?
I'm not happy in my current job but I am not sure
whether I should change careers, or just change
employer?
Been out of the work place for several years due to my
family commitments. What are my options now?
'Make it thy business to
know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the
world'. Cervantes.
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Work
performance issues
The focus of this intervention is on your
effectiveness at work, i.e., your behaviour. This
might sound a bit heavy, but in practice its about
learning about yourself, your strengths and
career development needs, and then what you can do about
those development needs. The service is grounded in
psychometrics, development of self awareness and makes
full use of a coaching approach.
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"I have progressed well in my career, but
I need to work on some issues to really move forward
to the next stage."
"My last appraisal was disappointing,
I want to work on the issues identified."
"I think I am in the right sort of
job but I just can't get on with my boss. How can I deal
with this effectively?"
"I have been identified as a high
flyer."
'Wisdom
is often times nearer when we stoop than when we soar'.
William Wordsworth.
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Motivation
issues!!
This is really designed for individuals who are
feeling ambivalent about their working life. There is
nothing particularly wrong with their work, but its
not exciting any more, doesn't give the same buzz. Is
this what getting older is about?!
Typical questions people bring to us include - |
'I feel bored. Nothing seems to
interest or excite me'. 'I feel at a loose end career
wise?' 'I don't know what I want anymore'
We will help you to identify what
makes you tick, what energises you, what turns you off
and exhausts you and link that to career choice, goal
setting and action.
We will help you to identify what
makes you tick, what energises you, what turns you off
and exhausts you and link that to career choice, goal
setting and action.
We will help you to identify what
makes you tick, what energises you, what turns you off
and exhausts you and link that to career choice, goal
setting and action.
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Executive
coaching & career development - senior one to one
work
Senior people, whether a top fee earner in a city law
firm or a director on the main board, have particular
needs as the issues are often more complex, the
opportunities for action greater, but mistakes for the
individual can be a lot more costly:
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Continued success at a senior
level generally places much greater emphasis on
emotional intelligence and self awareness.
Leadership style becomes vitally
important.
Huge adjustment issues may be
required if an abrupt change in circumstances is
required.
Confidentiality is perhaps a
greater concern - for example, being a well known CEO.
Credibility and awareness of the
coach is important.
Quite often, because of their position,
such people frequently lack peers and colleagues with
which they can discuss career related issues, the
'loneliness of the long distance runner' syndrome.
Typical concerns that people have
brought to use include:
'I have been very successful but am now
looking for the next energising challenge'.
'I have been very ambitious, still
think I am, but I think my values have changed and am
looking to identify the next stage?'
'This redundancy has really kicked me
in the teeth, not really sure what I want to do next'.
'Its what you
learn after you know it all that counts!' John
Wooden
We can offer a flexible series of careers counselling /
executive coaching sessions dealing with any of the above themes, or a
more structured career change
programme - "Where do I go from here?"
a programme for individuals or in workshops. Click
here for
further information
Where appropriate, our services are
underpinned by psychometrics. The ones we use are all
scientifically validated. They can provide you with reliable
and insightful information on your values, motives,
personality, stress points, coping style, problem solving
strengths - the list can go on.
We can see people in our offices in
Winchester, and other locations around the UK. Some of the
psychometric testing can be done on-line or via email, and
some of the coaching can be done via the telephone. In terms
of methods of delivery, we are flexible and can put together
a package that suits your circumstances. Depending on the
service, we also see people in their own homes.
The real output of the service is a
changed and energised you, but we can provide written
feedback reports, setting out insights and actions to be
taken, as well as any necessary research information, such
as contact addresses etc.
Finally, we are not an employment agency,
we cannot find you a job but we can give you the necessary
tools to make the best career decision, as well as to handle
work place challenges and opportunities productively.
For case studies please
click here.
If you would
like to request further information on any of these services
please click here.
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