Offers in-depth training in a one- or two-day session for groups, including a range of experiential exercises.
The course applies our Adaptive Leadership Perspectives competency profile and our Life Values and Preferences Inventory to drive a process for creating a specific, sustainable career plan. These criteria can be applied using a pre-class, on-line assessment and accompanying report or can be applied using self-assessment templates during the course.
The learning objectives for the course focus on helping participants:
- Apply an understanding of leadership career levels to both plan their own career and provide career coaching to others;
- Understand the key drivers that make lifelong career planning successful;
- Be able to assess their own career priorities in an ongoing manner;
- Be able to create an effective, achievable career and development plan;
- Be able to implement a process and apply accompanying tools to sustain lifelong career planning
The agenda for the course includes the following topics
- What is a career?
- What criteria work best for driving development and career planning?
- Adaptive leadership perspectives: overview of key principles;
- Adaptive leadership perspectives: contributions by career stage;
- The career and life planning process;
- Make your move
- Focusing your personal criteria
- Making your move happen
- Session summary
To complete each step in the career planning process outlined in more detail below, participants engage in individual and group exercises to explore concepts and document exercise outcomes.
| Career and Life Planning Process | |
| Making Your MoVE | Key Outcomes |
| Clarifying Your Career Planning Purposes | Personal career vision statement, including ideal values, competencies and experiences to pursue |
| Evaluating Your Current Values Preferences | |
| Defining Your “Motivated” Competencies | |
| Determining Potential Future Roles | |
| Evaluating Your Level of Fit for Identified Roles | |
| Developing a “Personal Career Vision” | |
| Refining Your Personal Criteria | Key Outcomes |
| Understanding the Current Career Environment and Trends | Statement of specific success criteria adapted to environmental demands and opportunities |
| Evaluating Your Current Life and Career Stage | |
| Clarifying Your Personal Learning and Development Style | |
| Understanding Your Personal Context | |
| Establishing Your Personal Criteria for Success | |
| Making Your MoVE Happen | Key Outcomes |
| Defining Supports for Your Career Plan | Practical action plan for career development |
| Clarifying Potential Development Activities | |
| Creating and Implementing a Personal Development Plan | |
| Establishing a Personal Brand | |
| Making Your MoVE – A Lifelong Process | |