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Training Course Summary:

Outline: Personal success within any career seldom happens by chance. We need to understand our performance and preferences and actively manage our opportunities. Success requires recognition of your own preferences and capabilities, a willingness to adapt, develop and be challenged, as well as the motivation to achieve. For any company that wants staff to take responsibility for their own careers, this course is the ideal way to help them do so. The course will provide delegates with a structured approach to managing their careers and realising their work ambitions.

Who should attend? People at all professional levels in any organisation that wish to more effectively manage their careers. This includes people at the start of their career trying to set direction, and those who may wish to re-appraise their situation and consider changes of direction.

Course Objectives:
Assess skills and knowledge base
Identify key competencies, personal characteristics and values
Recognise the types of contribution individuals are best equipped to make
Identify potential future career direction, taking account of assessment, preferences and what is practicable and achievable
Assess and develop a contact network from a career development perspective
Set short, medium and long term career goals
Use the planning process to identify possible barriers or hindrances to achieving goals
Agree the immediate and longer term steps that must be taken to gain ongoing support from managers in the form of buy-in, mentoring and review
Course Overview:
Personal SWOT analysis
Understanding trends affecting work and skills
Assessing value, characteristics, preferences and competencies
Goal-setting
Networking and influencing
Identifying training & development options
Researching and assessing job roles
Support systems (including manager, HR and mentoring)