Expert Insights on Career Planning

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Your ideal career starts with a dream. Once you know what you want, the path is clear: Learn everything you can, develop relationships with the right people, take advantage of all opportunities, and persevere no matter the obstacle.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Acquire insights on the importance of connecting the work you do with the goals and success of the company.
    Acquire insights on using the four quadrants from the wheel of change as your guide for improving your life or work.
    Acquire insights on how to evaluate your career satisfaction.
    Acquire insights on how to give your career a big boost by creating a group of like-minded professionals to learn from and with.
    Acquire insights on how to map out a career strategy to help you reach your career destination.
    Acquire insights on the importance of self-development and how to make time for self-improvement, which in turn will lead to better personal relations and job performance.
    Acquire insights on the importance of understanding that you persevere and perform your best and when your desires are greater than your disappointments.
    Acquire insights on the importance of being vocal about what you want to do, and communicate it clearly to the right people to create the right opportunities for yourself.
    Acquire insights on the three stakeholder groups are and the role they play in your career.
    Acquire insights on how to make a smooth career transition.
    Acquire insights on how to use the issues faced by individuals during career development to actually further their careers.
    Acquire insights on how to decide which career path to take, which includes knowing when to take the advice of others and when to rely on your own instinct.
    Acquire insights on how to get what you need in order to love your job.
    Acquire insights on how to establish your expertise and communicate your value to secure your career.
    Acquire insights on the importance of being vocal and clear about where you want to reach--your dreams.
    Acquire insights on how to successfully navigate your career using new techniques that provide more opportunities compared to the traditionally prescribed ways.
    Acquire insights on how to take charge of your professional development.
    Acquire insights on the importance of investing in yourself to be successful in your professional and personal lives.
    Acquire insights on how to be successful by becoming more intentional with your life and knowing and working towards what you want.
    Acquire insights on the importance of ‘reframing’ work for success.
    Acquire insights on how to play to your strengths to be successful in your career.
    Acquire insights on the importance of asking for feedback.
    Acquire insights on how to make an impact in your first 60 days.
  • Acquire insights on the importance of customizing the work to make it more meaningful.
    Acquire insights on how and why you need to understand and measure the value you bring to your organization to be able to negotiate the best possible salary or raise for yourself.
    Acquire insights on how to unleash the talent pool that comprises of women.
    Acquire insights on the three steps to accelerate your career.
    Acquire insights on how to ask for a raise.
    Acquire insights on the importance of providing enough career development opportunities for people in the organization.
    Acquire insights on the importance of shifting to a kaleidoscope mindset for career mobility.
    Acquire insights on how to design your roadmap for your career mobility.
    Acquire insights on the ‘5c approach’ to career mobility.
    Acquire insights on the importance of asking questions to your managers to help you manage up successfully.
    Acquire insights on the importance and secret to building good stakeholder relations.
    Acquire insights on the three rules for leaving your current job.
    Acquire insights on the top five do's and don'ts for sharing your ideas without sabotaging your career.
    Acquire insights on how to recognize who we are: our identity, and perhaps, redefine it, if needed.
    Acquire insights on how to become a successful entrepreneur.
    Acquire insights on the importance of planning your career by strategically focusing some of your time and effort on taking control of your professional future.
    Acquire insights on being proactive about opportunities.
    Acquire insights on understanding how to be first in line when the job you want opens up.
    Acquire insights on identifying what you like to do and the skills you want to use so that you can focus your energy on finding happiness in your career.
    Acquire insights to understand that having confidence during an interview demonstrates not only your competence, but also that you are the best person for the job.
    Acquire insights on three essential skills for career success.
    Acquire insights on how to future-proof your career.
    Acquire insights on how to switch roles using the c-a-n formula.

IN THIS COURSE

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    1.  Why Am I Working Here?
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    The most destructive thing in an enterprise occurs when people can’t connect the work they do to the success of the enterprise — its financial goals; productivity goals; safety goals; development goals; innovation goals; etc. Else what’s the point of working there? FREE ACCESS
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    2.  Wheel of Change: Planning for the Future
    3m 48s
    Improving your life or work; or the life or work of those around you; is easier using the four quadrants from the Wheel of Change as your guide. FREE ACCESS
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    3.  Evaluating Your Career Satisfaction
    2m 7s
    Dominic Barton wants to make a difference in the emerging world; and evaluates himself with respect to that purpose. A co-worker he trusts periodically asks him questions like; “Why do you to do this? Do you think it makes a difference? Do you have enough time?” FREE ACCESS
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    4.  Create a Mastermind Group to Grow Your Career
    2m 20s
    Give your career a big boost by creating a group of like-mind professionals to learn from and with. FREE ACCESS
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    5.  Mapping Your Career Strategy
    2m 42s
    To reach your career destination; you need to map out a strategy; recognizing that the straightest course is not necessarily the best way to get there. FREE ACCESS
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    6.  Make Time for Self-Development
    2m 5s
    People who take time for self-development see improvements in their personal relations and job performance. Take half an hour each day to read; talk; or otherwise be inspired. Treat these activities as daily rituals. FREE ACCESS
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    7.  Persevere through Desire
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    Terry Fox was a Canadian cancer amputee who ran across Canada on only one leg; to raise money for cancer research. He said he did it “one telephone pole at a time.” We persevere when our desires are more powerful than our disappointments. FREE ACCESS
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    8.  Create Your Own Opportunities
    2m 1s
    Most people don’t try to achieve the highest levels because they assume they can’t get there. Learn new things by volunteering with professional associations; ask to shadow senior executives; and tell others what your goals and ambitions are. FREE ACCESS
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    9.  The Three Stakeholder Groups are and the Role they Play in Your Career
    3m 18s
    Interactional stakeholders are your peer group; your career depends on them. Observational stakeholders are the local work community. Reputational stakeholders know you only through their communication with others. Build relationships will all three types of stakeholders. FREE ACCESS
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    10.  Career Transition
    3m 7s
    Promotions and transfers often require new skills. Understand what the new position requires. Show your commitment; ask others for their opinion; take classes; or find a mentor. FREE ACCESS
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    11.  Coaching and Mentoring for Career Development
    4m 29s
    Career development; says Martyn Redgrave; hinges on four issues: intellect; energy; ambition; and choices. Here he details how people can use each issue to further their careers. FREE ACCESS
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    12.  Follow Your Own Path
    2m 7s
    Ultimately; people have to decide for themselves which career path they want to follow. Sharon Wood talks about when to listen to others’ advice and when to rely on your own instincts. FREE ACCESS
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    13.  Love Your Job; Don't Leave It
    3m 44s
    Sharon Jordan-Evans shares four steps for how to get what you need in order to love your job. FREE ACCESS
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    14.  Establish Expertise to Secure Your Career
    1m 24s
    To acquire "career insurance", you need to establish your expertise within your organization. That means learning continuously, sharing your knowledge, and communicating your value. FREE ACCESS
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    15.  Dream Out Loud
    3m 34s
    Energy is created when you say your dream out loud. For example, saying that she was going to run the Boston Marathon helped her start training. Saying it out loud also helps other people to help you. These people are often one to three degrees of separation away. FREE ACCESS
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    16.  Navigating a Career Like a Climbing Wall
    3m 12s
    The traditional career ladder has been replaced by a new and updated climbing wall; which offers more opportunities. FREE ACCESS
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    17.  Take Charge of Your Professional Development
    4m 8s
    Rote box-checking on annual performance reviews confirms that you're able to do your job. But to improve professionally, you have to set development goals that enhance your skills over time. FREE ACCESS
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    18.  Invest in Yourself
    3m 1s
    If you haven't invested in yourself, you won't have anything worth giving away to others. FREE ACCESS
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    19.  Be Intentional to Be Successful
    3m 22s
    John Maxwell gives his absolute best single piece of advice to people who want to win. FREE ACCESS
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    20.  Reframing Work for Success
    2m 43s
    Reframing can shift the way people perceive situations and experiences at work—and can mean the difference between success and failure. FREE ACCESS
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    21.  Learn to Play to Your Strengths
    3m 10s
    Lots of people will tell you to play to your strengths, but Dan Cable will tell you how to actually do it. FREE ACCESS
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    22.  Ask for Feedback
    2m 53s
    The person most responsible for your success is you; so do not leave it up to your boss to give feedback. FREE ACCESS
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    23.  How Do You Make an Impact in Your First 60 Days
    3m 8s
    Dan Cable shares three pieces of advice for setting yourself up for success in a new job. FREE ACCESS
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    24.  Customize the Work to Make the Work More Meaningful
    3m 26s
    Today's employees want and expect more autonomy and purpose in their work. Job customization makes this possible. FREE ACCESS
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    25.  Measure Your Worth So You Can Negotiate Your Worth
    3m 12s
    Negotiating the best possible salary or getting the best possible raise starts with understanding and measuring the value you bring to your organization. FREE ACCESS
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    26.  Unleash Your Talent Potential
    2m 57s
    Finding out why your female talent pipeline is leaking and actively solving the problem unleashes your organization's untapped talent potential—which ultimately improves your organization's performance. FREE ACCESS
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    27.  Three Steps to Accelerating Your Career
    1m 14s
    Knowing your passions and goals are the starting point for accelerating your career. FREE ACCESS
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    28.  How to Ask for a Raise
    2m 44s
    Sharon Melnick shares her surefire advice for asking for and getting the raise you deserve. FREE ACCESS
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    29.  Career Development
    2m 46s
    Employees want career development and will go wherever necessary to find it. FREE ACCESS
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    30.  A Kaleidoscope Mindset for Career Mobility
    3m 10s
    Career mobility is similar to a kaleidoscope in that three major factors combine to make a plethora of options. FREE ACCESS
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    31.  Career Mobility Roadmap
    3m 29s
    Once you've embraced career mobility from a kaleidoscope mindset, it's time to design your roadmap. FREE ACCESS
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    32.  The 5C Approach to Career Mobility
    2m 18s
    When it's time to develop your action plan, take advantage of the 5C approach to launching your career mobility strategy. FREE ACCESS
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    33.  Successfully Managing Up
    5m 36s
    Asking your boss some key questions can help you manage up more successfully. FREE ACCESS
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    34.  The Secret to Building Stakeholder Relations
    2m 44s
    Stakeholder relationships can help you advance your career at any stage. FREE ACCESS
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    35.  Three Rules for Leaving Your Current Job
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    Three Rules for Leaving Your Current Job FREE ACCESS
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    36.  Best Practices for Rebels at Work
    4m 38s
    Are you a rebel at work? If so, practice Carmen Medina's top five dos and don'ts for sharing your ideas without sabotaging your career. FREE ACCESS
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    37.  Identity: How Do We Know Who We Are?
    3m 18s
    Our identity includes memories of our past; what others say about us; and the programs others have given us. We can also create a new identity. FREE ACCESS
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    38.  Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur
    2m 34s
    Entrepreneurs can succeed if their organization is structured to meet the need they hope to satisfy; and that need is recognized as a real need. MBA programs can help entrepreneurs get started; sometimes with seed money. FREE ACCESS
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    39.  Planning Your Career
    2m 48s
    Don’t leave your career to chance. By strategically focusing some of your time and efforts now, you can take control of your professional future. FREE ACCESS
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    40.  Be Proactive About Opportunities
    2m 50s
    There is more to getting promoted than just doing a good job. FREE ACCESS
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    41.  The Hidden Job Market
    2m 22s
    Acquire insights on understanding how to be first in line when the job you want opens up. FREE ACCESS
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    42.  Finding Career Happiness
    2m 20s
    When you identify what you like to do and the skills you want to use, you can focus your energy on finding happiness in your career. FREE ACCESS
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    43.  Interviewing with Confidence
    3m 4s
    Having confidence during an interview demonstrates not only your competence, but also that you are the best person for the job. FREE ACCESS
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    44.  Three Essential Skills for Career Success
    1m 57s
    Irrespective of your role or responsibilities within your department or company, there are three skills that will help you be better at your job. In addition, these skills will help you along your career, no matter where you go. Discover the three essential skills for career success. FREE ACCESS
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    45.  How to Future-Proof Your Career
    1m 51s
    Although no job is guaranteed forever, you can future-proof your career. You can ensure there's always going to be an opportunity out there for you just waiting, and people who really want to work with you. You do this by networking, shaping, and tracking. FREE ACCESS
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    46.  How to Switch Roles Using the C-A-N Formula
    2m 3s
    For anyone looking to switch departments, roles, or even industries, there is a can-do formula to help. Find out about the C-A-N steps you need to follow if you want to switch roles. FREE ACCESS

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