The Key Issues

Globalisation, continuous restructuring, fewer management layers, smaller permanent headcount, increased part time and contract employment and outsourcing to third parties; strategies designed to improve efficiency and reduce cost have resulted in an environment demanding continual “stretch targets” with reduced resources, increasing the likelihood of employees feeling overwhelmed by unremitting demand and challenge.   It has also had an effect upon the perceived contract between company and workforce, profoundly impacting individual careers and attitudes to the organisation.  

Coping with this reality, where traditional models of career planning and personal development cease to apply, requires a radically different approach.   The assumption of security of employment and structured progression have become obsolete in a rapidly changing world, resulting in the need for organisations and individuals to work together to ensure the sustained development of the skills, knowledge and behaviours essential to both business and personal success.

Accommodating this presents both problems and opportunities.   Many employees remain psychologically or materially unprepared and inevitably experience anxiety due to uncertainty, possibly resulting in low morale and impaired productivity as well as the potential impact on health and well-being.   For some, planning for an uncertain future can represent an exercise in futility.   However, it also presents an opportunity to work in new and challenging ways, with greater flexibility and increased opportunities for individual and organisational growth.

The Way Forward

For the employer - to match the personal and career aspirations and development of employees with business needs and objectives and by doing so, build an enhanced mature relationship, ensuring the retention of a committed, loyal, motivated, creative and highly developed workforce.  

For the employee - to be conscious of their needs, wants and value add and recognise how to manage, promote and develop this, whilst at the same time, defining and implementing plans to ensure the personal development essential to guaranteeing success in a constantly evolving business and market.

Critical to business success is the motivation, retention and development of key personnel .   Ensuring both sides align and achieve their objectives requires not only employee motivation but also the fostering of an environment that provides tools and support to enable each person to take ‘control’ and demonstrate 'ownership' for their Personal Development and Career Management.  

The Solution

Using a series of proven interventions designed to assist with a journey of ‘self discovery’, our programmes are pragmatic and build on the principles that as individuals:

• we only move forward effectively with ‘insight’ , and the awareness to enable successful planning of both short and long term development in practical and effective ways.
• we must recognise what we want and why, and then align these with both our life and career.  
• it is essential to appreciate and then demonstrate our value add .   To do this, we must understand the range and diversity of our talents and experiences, and be able to clearly understand and demonstrate how they can be best utilised.
• it is our responsibility to build our skills, knowledge and experiences in order to maximise our personal effectiveness now and in the future.
• we must have strategies for maintaining personal performance, resilience and motivation.

Our programmes enable each person to gain a clear view of his or her “big picture” through creating a Map of Personal Preferences.   This is then used to create a personal ‘Vision’ and determine ‘Planning and Self Marketing’ activities.   All programmes:

• include comprehensive tools that enable self-discovery, self-awareness, and the knowledge to identify the way forward and plan to successfully achieve it.
• include comprehensive documentation in the form of workbooks for individuals and where required, manuals for coaches / HR professionals.
• can be augmented by Coaching / Mentoring for ongoing career planning and development support.
• allow for integration of existing organisational tools and approaches.

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