Coach Yourself and Others To a Customized Career Path

With some of us changing career paths and industries up to 3-6 times in our career, how can you be assured to choose the correct next step for yourself? How do we know if you are moving into a toxic environment or an environment where you will be successful? If you know you want to be creative have a seat at the table, or change industries, what are the best ways to assess the potential fit in a new position?  If you want to retain and coach the people on your teams toward their optimal career path, how can you do that without a background as a career coach? Are you unsure of your career strengths, and how to leverage these to find a career path where you can demonstrate mastery? We will answer these questions and more in this interactive and illuminating webinar. Instead of just guessing about your career direction, or using other people’s sometimes biased thoughts, you will connect with your unique strengths and particular “must haves” needed in a successful career path, customized to you!  
 
Part 1  
You will use the trademarked Key Elements ™ assessment tools and specific questions like a detective to shine a light on the important factors that you require in a more ideal position.  
You will clarify your optimal Key Elements:  

Manager/Business Partner *Colleagues   *Key Values*Meaningful Job Activities   *Special Considerations *Supportive Culture and Environment *Minimum Salary and Benefits *Maximum Commute   
Your completed Key Elements document will be used as a visioning tool, so you keep your eyes on what you want, instead of being dragged down in your current environment. Additionally, you can use the Key Elements document to vet potential opportunities and avoid future avenues where you might not be successful.  
We will also examine how you might find these Key Elements in a host of known and unknown situations, including your current organization or new and creative job choices.   
 
Part 2  
Once you have gathered information on your two possible career paths, you will use an upgraded pros and cons method to help you make careful and informed future decisions. The facilitator will offer spot coaching to those participants who are still unsure of their career choice or would like additional insight.  
We will further explore your career strengths, and boost your confidence in identifying and articulating these strengths with the popular “SOAR” method: Situation-Obstacle-Action-Results. Additionally, participants will receive instruction on how to use the assessments from the class to help others create their own Key Elements “wish list” for the future.  

• Eliminate roadblocks to uncovering, owning, and articulating your strengths  
• Increase your confidence and gain insight into your marketability 
• Carefully review your past work history as well as explore new potential areas for your career growth  
• Create a customized career “compass”- a visioning and vetting tool to help you aim for a prime career path, and avoid less-than-optimal career choices  
• Craft convincing SOAR short stories (Situation, Obstacle, Action, Result) that distinctly express your value to a future leader or employer  
• Gain new skills to make informed and thorough choices in career and personal areas 
• Develop your own career coaching and talent development skills to help maximize your team’s current abilities and retain key players.  

• How to use past career history and a deeper understanding of your strengths to choose an advantageous and rewarding career path 
• Effective methods to ascertain and clarify your value to a current or future employer 
• Understand the skills employers and leaders are looking for, and create expressive strengths statements to gain and ace interviews and secure better job offers 
• Add new assessments and coaching skills to your management repertoire to help yourself and your team become clear on the successive career roles to grow and develop your own and their top talents  
• Expand your ability to define your own career progression, as well as help employees pinpoint their “must haves” by creating a custom fit Key Elements “wish list”  
• Utilize your Key Elements “wish list” to focus on what you do want instead of what you are currently experiencing, and also use it as a tool to weed out less personalized opportunities  
• Benefit from advanced decision-making tools to resolve professional and personal complex indecisions  

• If you are unclear about your strengths, and next or future career path, or want to help your team and others clarify their career direction, join this webinar to: 
• Gain insight into your specific needs and key elements that must be present in order for you to be successful in your next career path(s). 
• Increase your confidence and interviewing success by identifying, owning, and learning to articulate your most marketable career strengths 
• Develop a future visioning tool as well as create a customized vetting tool to help you choose the most advantageous career course
• Learn to tell compelling stories that focus on your prime work accomplishments and how you deciphered previously unsolved problems, saved time and money, brought in new clients, groomed talent, and/or retained top talent. 
• Acquire the tools and skills to help develop the talent on your team and guide them to their own most advantageous new skill development and/or roles.  
• Get a head start on your current or future resume development and LI profile  

Anyone unclear about their own strengths and optimum career path. People looking for a new job, a better career “fit” where their strengths and talents will be leveraged, and they can perform meaningful and satisfying work in a positive environment. Managers and leaders, HR professionals, business owners and others who want to appreciate and groom their talent and provide career direction to help maximize and expand on their employee’s strengths to retain and capitalize on their people resources.

Suzanne Blake , PCC, is an award-winning International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach with 23 years of coaching, training, and business consulting experience. With?warmth, humor, and the?latest in coaching and brain?science techniques, Suzanne?helps individuals and groups attain their communication, empowerment, career, and leadership goals.

Suzanne Blake is the Founder and President of Blake Coaching and Training. She has helped hundreds of seasoned and emerging leaders expand their capacity, make decisions, use focused strategic thinking, and build confidence and self-awareness. Her coaching work has been featured on The Today Show, NPR, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and numerous other media outlets.

A passionate industry leader, she specializes in coaching executives and managers in leadership development, managing individuals and co-located and virtual teams, communication styles effectiveness, work-life balance, presentation skills, emotional intelligence, and time and performance management.?Suzanne has comprehensive experience designing and facilitating training and coaching programs, facilitating team building, and conducting one-on-one Executive Coaching sessions.

Her clients include Verizon, Deloitte, LLC, Amica Insurance, BCBS, EMC/Dell, Synthes Switzerland, eClinicalWorks, Nimbly Wise Ed/Tech Coaching and Training, Core Axis, and numerous small to medium size businesses, and non-profit organizations.

Suzanne is a masterful communicator with a proactive and resourceful approach to helping drive client-oriented coaching services and learning and development programs. She demonstrates a unique ability to quickly zero in on the root causes of problems and identify creative and sustainable solutions.

Suzanne is a featured author in the popular book, 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, co-authored with leading experts Jack Canfield, John Gray, Richard Carlson, and Bob Proctor.