A Team Learns to Manage Their Careers

I partnered with an organization’s Human Resources department to provide a career management workshop for their employees. The company felt it was imperative that each employee set their own career goals and the Human Resources group did not have the bandwidth to provide this training.

I designed and provided a half-day interactive session which highlighted the importance of taking responsibility for the management of their own careers. In addition, they were introduced to my career management framework which provides strategies and tools to set short, medium and long-term career goals and create action plans to achieve those goals.

At the end of the session each participant chose an accountability partner to keep them on track. Best of all, they walked away with a career framework and tools to help them manage their careers now and into the future.

A New Team Interacts More Effectively

I was asked to work with a relatively new leadership team within a major consumer goods company. While the team was made up of very talented and experienced people, they had all just recently moved into their roles and hadn’t had a chance to get to know each other.

Based on input from the Plant Manager and Human Resources Director, I designed and provided a customized one-day workshop which would help the team get to know each other better, build a level of trust and respect and an understanding of how to work interdependently. There were three segments covered during our day together:

• A self-reflection exercise in which each person shared their thoughts on their function, the team and the company. 

• A strengths assessment which allowed the team to understand their own and each other’s strengths. 

• A mission-creation exercise in which the team defined its purpose, goals and working agreements.

By the end of the day the shift between the way the team members interacted was visibly apparent. They were more connected, open and trusting with each other. Most importantly, it was clear to me and their leadership that their interactions going forward would be much more effective, productive and meaningful.