Becoming Empowered in Career & Life Choices

Career Program for Organizations & Licencees featuring the Who You Are MATTERS!^TM Career & Life Clarification Game

Organizations, companies, agencies and educational institutions benefit from the CareerCycles experience. Try our Career Program and have your team learn about themselves and each other, and HAVE FUN. Use the experience to evaluate whether you and your team want to move to the next level and licence the program for your Human Resource or Career Professionals team.

For individual practitioners, you can add the CareerCycles experience to your professional repertoire and increase your offerings and revenue through a licensing arrangement.

Benefits to organizational clients

• Better retention: save recruitment costs, reduce turnover

• Company reputation: You’re an employer of choice, easier recruiting because candidates are attracted to you

• Succession planning: Grooming high potential employees to fill impending and real gaps

• Intellectual property: Save institutional knowledge & skill sets to maintain competitive advantage and further grow the business

• Engagement: Improved productivity and better employee engagement

• Training: Increased ROI of training costs by linking individuals’ aspirations with their development plans

• Leaving on good terms: For the few staff who do choose to leave, exiting on good terms is critical to the marketplace perception of the organization, and demonstrates that it treats its people with respect 

Benefits to participants

• Better satisfaction, interest, alignment, fit with company

• More opportunity to learn and grow with the organization

• Open and honest career conversations, rather than accessing recruiters and career services in “secret”

• Increased confidence and potential for greater success through identifying using one’s strengths

Organizational Clients, partial list

• SNC-Lavalin ProFac

• Canadian Hydrographic Service

• Humber College

• Ontario Society of Professional Engineers    

Career Program Components

 1.     Who You Are MATTERS!^TM The Career & Life Clarification Game (½- or ¾-day session)

RESULTS

• Completed “Career Sketch” ©, including 10+ self-awareness insights in the areas of your career D.A.T.A. (Desires, Abilities, Temperament, Assets)

• List of career enrichment, external, volunteer, further education and other possibilities you’re curious about

• Participants have a fun, engaging experience while tackling a serious topic

• Participants will not only be clearer about who they are, but will also leave the workshop more focused and intentional about taking the next steps in their career journey.

• “A light but enlightening and enjoyable session." -participant

INCLUDES

• Up to 20 participants

• Professional facilitation of workshop game

• All game materials and handouts

• Follow up activities

• Summary of feedback

 2.     1:1 career coaching - first round  (recommended to include a package of 1-5 sessions per participant for first and second rounds)

• Start with the Career Sketch from the first session, plus the follow up activity output

• Meet 1:1 with a CareerCycles Associate for career counselling and coaching session(s)

• Resulting in a refined Career Statement^TM that individuals will use like a compass in their Intentional Exploration process

 3.     Intentional Career Exploration – (½- or ¾-day session, ~2-8 weeks after Who You Are MATTERS!)

RESULTS

• Quality career conversations happen at the workplace

• Career changes occur in greater alignment with individual desires and organizational needs

• Positive impact on career-related professional development components of performance reviews (from gap analysis)

• Participants understand how to conduct an Intentional Exploration

• Confidence in career self-management, self-awareness and how to move forward

• Excitement and positive energy; positive repositioning of career management which takes the negative expectation component out of the what might be a fearful process

• Stronger belief in the commitment of the organization to its staff’s career wellbeing

 INCLUDES

• Up to 20 participants

• Tools to operationalize the Intentional Exploration process

• Professional facilitation of workshop

• All workshop materials and handouts

4.     1:1 Career Coaching – second round

• Meet 1:1 with a CareerCycles Associate for career counselling and coaching session(s)

• Fine tune Possibility & Exploration Plan

• Draft self-report

 5.     WRAP UP

• We provide an aggregate result of the self report instrument. And, feedback and observations about the group for further consideration.

Interested in this program? Please contact us.

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