Shaping My Professional Future

Module Overview

This 2-day training course on career development is designed to assist participants reach a level of career-mastery to successfully engage with the range of opportunities arising within their own organisations.

The training course, consisting of 10 modules, seeks to provoke and guide participants through a process of tuition, introspection & discussion – to take ownership for their professional development and become highly proficient in making a transition from one internal role to another.

The over-riding impetus of this career development training course is to motivate & empower individuals to creatively find personal career development solutions that are synergistic with their employer’s needs, as well as fulfilling their own personal potential.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand, appreciate & leverage the factors that make for a happy and rewarding career.
• Identify the personal self-awareness factors that influence one’s career adaptability.
• Develop a mindset to manage one’s own career – supported by one’s manager & the internal talent management structures.
• Devise a personal framework for realising your career development potential internally.
• Improve motivaton & personal engagement with your organisation – through deeper involvement/commitment to a common future.

Programme Content

• 21st century career landscape – encompassing concepts of Talent Management & Knowledge Work.
• Knowing Myself: A toolkit to unlocking my inner values, dreams, skills, biases, personality, temperament, achievements, work satisfiers.
• Development Planning: charting a course that expands my internal career prospects.
• Initiating Internal Transitions: securing support of my manager & raising my job-satisfaction levels in current role.
• Future-proofing my skill-base for sustainability & marketability – in terms of functional roles & transferable skills.
• Weighing Further Education – value or liability?
• Managing interpersonal relations, office politics distortions, deceptions … & setbacks.
• The unwritten rules of Networking & Mentor Selection – thinking creativity, reciprocity & self-management.
• Avoiding self-sabotaging behaviours – modulating ambition within team environments.
• Navigating in-company transfers & promotions – mindful of selection processes, lateral & vertical … formal & informal.
• Succeeding in a new job – surviving & thriving during those first 100 days.
• Commitment to Engage: acting on my career plan … & integrating with my employer’s PMDS.
• Summary & End … questions, clarifications & roadmaps.

This course is suited for
Senior Managers, Middle Managers, Team Leaders, Non-Managerial Employees