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Be prepared to answer the door when opportunity knocks.
Solutions for Individuals
Be prepared to answer the door when opportunity knocks.
Run Toward the Career you crave
It seems like there are two main times in life that we take the time out to consider our career. The first is right when we graduate. The second time is when we finally make the decision to leave a stagnant job or a toxic workplace. Unfortunately, only considering our career wants and needs in those moments leaves us unable to take the lead with our careers. When we are running from a job, we typically don’t have the luxury to thoughtfully determine exactly where we want to go. The Lead Your Career Framework will free you from this cycle, and get you started on the path to career fulfillment.
Lead Your Career Services
Career Coaching
Maximize your investment in yourself by partnering with a certified Lead Your Career Coach.
Your coach will guide you through the Lead Your Career Framework, helping you focus on what matters most.
You’ll be inspired to maximize your professional potential as your coach helps you to discover, clarify, and align with your career goals. They will encourage self-discovery, elicit solutions and strategies, and help you hold yourself accountable to your goals.
Independent Study
Go at your own pace with the Lead Your Career Workbook.
Arranged in a chronological, step-by-step fashion, the Lead Your Career Workbook is a tool you can apply to your career at any time.
Whether you are seeking a promotion, exploring a different career path, or charting a course for growth in your current organization; the Lead Your Career Workbook supplies you with in-depth information, templates, exercises, worksheets, and reflection questions designed to help you achieve your desired results.
How It Works
The Lead Your Career Framework introduces a system that will help you direct the entire arc of your career. Using this approach, you will learn to how to plan and manage your career in an intentional and strategic way. You’ll take a holistic approach to your career taking the time to understand your motivations and needs, skills and talents, and the demands in the marketplace. Then you’ll identify what you want to do in the short and long term, and create a comprehensive plan to make it happen!
Step One: Plan
What Do I Want to Do Next?
The Lead Your Career approach to professional development starts with an understanding of what it takes to find work that fills you with a sense of passion and purpose.
You can enjoy a rewarding career by finding work
- you are good at (identifying skills, talents, and strengths)
- you enjoy doing (aligned with interests, wants, and motivations)
- in an environment where you feel valued (matches with a business need)
By the time you complete step one of the Lead Your Career framework you’ll have drafted a career plan, created your guiding career criteria, determined your value proposition, learned how to research new opportunities (including those inside your current organization), participated in informational interviews, and you’ll have decided what your next move is.
Step Two: Market
What is my reputation?
Managing your personal marketing is critical to ensuring your reputation is in alignment with your career goals, and that you and your career marketing tools like your resume and LinkedIn effectively communicate your value.
Building directly on the work completed in step one, you’ll align your personal marketing and branding with your career goals. In step two you will:
- complete your personal branding building blocks
- create a value statement that answers the question, “what do you do?”
- learn to confidently articulate your goals and abilities
- polish your marketing tools including your resume and LinkedIn
- learn to lead with a quality first impression
Step Three: Network
How am I supported?
Networking is nothing more than building relationships, but to understand your networking goals, it helps to know what types of relationships to build.
At the conclusion of step three in the Lead Your Career Framework, you’ll have learned how to
- keep the four steps to building lasting relationships top of MIND (Meet-Initiate-Nurture-Develop)
- utilize best practice conference and event networking tips
- build a personal career advisory board
- understand the role of mentor and mentee
Step Four: Prepare
How do I get there?
Preparing for what’s next is a critical step in career management involving communication strategies, application materials, interviewing preparations, and successful onboarding techniques.
By the time you have worked through step four, you’ll know how to:
- understand an organization’s application procedures
- be ready for important conversations
- prepare to interview
- embrace the opportunity to negotiate
- onboard successfully into a new position with a plan
Ready to lead your career?
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