Category: Career Development

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Five Benchmarks of a Powerful Career Management Strategy

Are you trying to improve career management in your organisation? Are you keen to respond to employee questions and concerns over their career opportunities?  Are you committed to helping managers support employees with their career development? If so, you should have a documented career management strategy that is known and understood by employees, managers and

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7 biggest mistakes companies make in career management

The Seven Biggest Mistakes Companies Make With Career Management

The only effective, sustainable approach to career management involves the whole organisation.  Attitudes and behaviours filter down from leaders with reinforcement from policies and procedures.  Alongside any training, information and support, it’s important to create a culture that promotes growth and career development. When clients contact us, it’s often because of their engagement survey results. 

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Associate Trainer – Leadership Development and Career Management

Update 22/03/19: This is now closed We are growing and so are looking for two exceptional Facilitators/Trainers to support our leadership development and career management programmes on a freelance, part-time basis. Antoinette Oglethorpe Ltd. is a globally operating, world-leading training provider.  Through leadership development and career management we unlock leadership potential so that empowered individuals and ambitious organisations can

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Three Trends Changing the Face of Career Development in Organisations

Leadership development and career management aren’t working. Well that’s the conclusion of the Corporate Executive Board (CB) anyway.  In their paper, “The New Path Forward”, they highlight the improvements needed for both organisations or employees.  They describe a chasm between what employees are looking for from their careers and the support they are getting from

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Competition Time – Win One of Ten Career Conversation Toolkits

In a time when the job market is uncertain, I am convinced organisations that invest in career conversations and career development for their employees will have a proven competitive advantage. Are you having regular career conversations with your employees? We all know the theory: employees are more engaged when they see a future for themselves

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How to Cultivate a Diverse Culture that Develops Female Talent

“How’s your organisation doing with regard to gender equality? Do you have many women at senior levels?” This line will be familiar to professionals in HR. It’s a focus for many who have recognised that gender inequality in the workplace costs companies. It impacts financial performance, idea innovation, market share, team collaboration and much more.

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How to Build Trust Through Your Personal Brand

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently”  Warren Buffett  In my last blog post, I talked about How to Clarify Your Personal Brand.  And I made the key point that it’s the unique promise of value you want to

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How to Clarify Your Personal Brand

Companies have brands. Products have brands.  Over the past few years, the concept of ‘personal branding’ has gained momentum. It has become something of a buzzword for modern professionals.But for whatever reason, many aren’t comfortable with developing their personal brand, and may find it ‘salesy’ or even disingenuous. Personal branding isn’t as intense as it sounds. Jeff

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Career development strategies. Are yours up to date?

CCS (or Career Counselling Services to give them their full title) is the organisation I did my career coach training with many, many, years ago.  Twice a year alumni who have trained with CCS come together to exchange knowledge, ideas and experiences as part of our continuous professional development. We were also lucky enough to

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