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Learn MoreBuild your career in uncertain times
Build your career in uncertain times
Build and execute your development plan to acquire the knowledge needed to face your future with purpose and confidence
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Created byThe Growth Lab, Jeremy Farrell, Adrienne O'Brien
Last updated 1/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Refresh your cv / resume
- Implement a skills plan
- Articulate your transferable skills
- Pursue opportunities hidden in uncertainty
- Establish a foundation of values, balance, and adaptability
- Pivot during Job loss, redundancy, or career plateau
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Course content
12 sections • 73 lectures • 5h 25m total length
- Welcome career builder!2:58
This course is designed to help you understand the forces shaping the world of work and position yourself — or your clients — for long-term career security, relevance, and fulfillment.
You’ll learn:
What “digital-first” really means and how automation, AI, and changing business models are transforming industries.
How to assess your current skills and identify gaps that could limit your future employability — and how to close them strategically.
Which skills are most in demand across professions, from technology and problem-solving to adaptability and digital literacy.
How to create a personal learning and development plan that keeps you growing and employable, no matter what the future holds.
How to build career resilience by understanding transferable skills and using them to shift roles, industries, or even professions.
How to balance ambition and well-being, ensuring that your definition of “success” is sustainable and aligned with your values.
And for coaches and career professionals, how to help your clients navigate uncertainty, reframe setbacks, and build future-ready careers.
Whether you’re a career builder, career changer, job seeker, life or leadership coach, or a small business owner, this course gives you the insights and frameworks to understand the world of work today — so you can confidently plan for tomorrow.
- Welcome coach!1:08
- Reinventing our career or working identity9:25
- Introduction to SatisFactors9:58
Use the proprietary SatisFactors (TM) tool with the instructor to reflect on and evaluate your satisfaction with key areas of your life and start to develop a plan to close the satisfaction gaps - and use it 'white label' licence free.
The client who may, or does, have Adult ADHD will love using this hands on visual coaching and learning tool to evaluate there state of mind in different areas of their life, and develop plans accordingly.
The SatisFactors tool comes with:
Excel Workbook with four assessment worksheets with immediate visual results for the client
Workbook in ppt for white labeling
- Part 1 - Holistic life satisfaction assessment5:54
Use the proprietary SatisFactors (TM) tool with the instructor to reflect on and evaluate your satisfaction with key areas of your life and start to develop a plan to close the satisfaction gaps - and use it 'white label' licence free.
Neurodivergent students and clients will love using this hands on visual coaching and learning tool to evaluate their state of mind in different areas of their life, and develop plans accordingly.
The SatisFactors tool comes with:
Excel Workbook with four assessment worksheets with immediate visual results for the client
Workbook in ppt for white labelling
- Part 2 - Holistic assessment review6:17
Use the proprietary SatisFactors (TM) tool with the instructor to reflect on and evaluate your satisfaction with key areas of your life and start to develop a plan to close the satisfaction gaps - and use it 'white label' licence free.
Neurodivergent students and clients will love using this hands on visual coaching and learning tool to evaluate their state of mind in different areas of their life, and develop plans accordingly.
The SatisFactors tool comes with:
Excel Workbook with four assessment worksheets with immediate visual results for the client
Workbook in ppt for white labelling
- Part 3 - Action planning to improve on SatisFactors3:11
Use the proprietary SatisFactors (TM) tool with the instructor to reflect on and evaluate your satisfaction with key areas of your life and start to develop a plan to close the satisfaction gaps - and use it 'white label' licence free.
Neurodivergent students and clients will love using this hands on visual coaching and learning tool to evaluate their state of mind in different areas of their life, and develop plans accordingly.
The SatisFactors tool comes with:
Excel Workbook with four assessment worksheets with immediate visual results for the client
Workbook in ppt for white labelling
- Part 4 - Concluding the SatisFactors5:31
Use the proprietary SatisFactors (TM) tool with the instructor to reflect on and evaluate your satisfaction with key areas of your life and start to develop a plan to close the satisfaction gaps - and use it 'white label' licence free.
Neurodivergent students and clients will love using this hands on visual coaching and learning tool to evaluate their state of mind in different areas of their life, and develop plans accordingly.
The SatisFactors tool comes with:
Excel Workbook with four assessment worksheets with immediate visual results for the client
Workbook in ppt for white labelling
- Career Development Part 13:07
The Career Development Theory: Proposed by Donald Super, this theory suggests that career development is a lifelong process influenced by various life roles and stages.
- Career Development Part 25:46
In this lesson, you’ll explore the major career development models that help explain how people choose, grow, and adapt in their careers — and how you can apply them to your own professional journey.
By the end of this lesson, you’ll understand that future-proofing your career isn’t about protecting a single job — it’s about developing a mindset that embraces growth, opportunity, and change. You’ll start to see your career as an evolving journey where your personality, values, and choices shape a life that’s both meaningful and resilient.
- Future-Proofing Your Career4:59
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
Differentiate between a job, a career, a gig, and a side hustle—and see how each fits into your professional journey.
Define what “career” means to you—whether it’s mastery, mobility, influence, autonomy, or impact.
Identify your growth preferences: do you want to deepen your expertise (specialist) or widen your experience (generalist)?
Recognize what drives you: status, recognition, flexibility, creativity, security, or contribution.
Understand the importance of personal brand and network as part of future-proofing your career.
Start thinking strategically about how to stay adaptable, visible, and valuable as roles and workplaces evolve.
- Understand business and where you fit3:43
The video discusses the importance of future-proofing your career in a digital-first economy by understanding some key business indicators.
- Developing business acumen
- Test your business acumen
- Introducing Digital-First4:15
The concept of a "Digital First Environment" revolves around the idea that organizations are increasingly using digital products for internal automation, efficiency, and collaboration.
- Career Risks4:01
By the end of this lesson, you’ll understand:
The biggest threats to career longevity in the digital age — from automation to changing workplace models.
How skill obsolescence happens, and why continuous learning is your best insurance policy.
The importance of digital visibility — and why having no online presence can be as damaging as having a poor one.
The shift from traditional career structures to dynamic, tech-enabled ecosystems where your adaptability defines your security.
- Coaching through FUD and Ambition2:24
By the end of this course, you’ll:
Understand how to help clients gain perspective on their current situation, skills, and aspirations.
Recognize the key skills and mindsets employers seek in a fast-changing, tech-driven workplace.
Learn how to coach clients to strengthen their internal networks and raise their visibility in authentic ways.
Gain insight into how organizations identify and reward emerging talent.
Be able to guide clients in building career resilience — a career that can withstand disruption, deliver purpose, and grow through change.
- Using the GROW coach approach to engaging with a career builder, changer, seeker
- Coaching the transferrable skills4:07
In this lesson, we explore one of the most important ideas in career change and resilience — transferable skills.
When a client faces redundancy, industry change, or the need to earn more by stepping into a new role, they often ask, “What can I take with me?”Your role is to help them see the value hidden in their past experiences — the leadership, problem-solving, planning, and self-discipline they may take for granted. These skills often form the bridge between who they were in one profession and who they can become in another.
This lesson illustrates how even the most unlikely career moves can succeed when built on a foundation of adaptable human skills and a clear understanding of how to articulate them.
- Coaching transferrable skills with a hospitality example5:16
- Coaching lifelong learning4:21
By the end of this lesson, you’ll:
Understand how lifelong learning protects against career stagnation and skill obsolescence.
Recognize how digital recruitment filters and credential requirements affect job mobility.
Learn to help clients identify their development gaps and turn them into focused learning goals.
Explore how to link learning choices to current job performance and future opportunities.
- Coaching for differentiation6:11
By the end of this lesson, you’ll:
Understand how to differentiate yourself or your client in a highly competitive digital job market.
Learn how to analyze job requirements to identify missing qualifications and areas of opportunity.
Discover how to turn career challenges into creative projects that demonstrate initiative and insight.
Explore the value of personal branding through content creation—writing, video, or thought leadership.
Gain practical tools to help clients recognize and combine their unique skill set into a compelling personal story.
See how meaning and creativity can sustain confidence and momentum during unemployment or career transition.
- Coaching through unemployment3:55
In this lesson, you’ll discover how to turn uncertain times into opportunities for growth by developing and demonstrating transferable skills — the abilities that make you adaptable, employable, and resilient.
You’ll also see, through real examples, how these actions can open unexpected doors — just as registering a company, doing freelance work, and learning new digital tools helped secure a meaningful new role after a period of unemployment.
- Coaching personal introspection and career choices5:55
In this lesson, you’ll take a closer look at the skills that have brought you to where you are today — and the ones that will carry you forward.
Through this reflection, you’ll begin to see how every role you’ve ever held — from past employment to community involvement — has contributed to your ability to adapt, lead, and reinvent yourself.
By the end of this lesson, you’ll not only have a clearer view of your own transferable skills, but also a framework you can use with clients to help them navigate change, rediscover purpose, and take confident next steps in their own careers.
- Overcoming obstacles2:01
Embrace the obstacle is the way mindset by confronting unemployment with creativity, drawing on strengths, and detailing past obstacles—actions and results you can share in interviews.
- Meaning and purpose2:45
- Pessimists and optimists both think ahead2:32
- Man to man - get out there2:52
Encourage men to build confidence through non-confrontational walk-and-talk mentoring with friends or colleagues, using golf as a bonding model for reflective conversations.
- Key Emerging Trends Shaping the Job Market4:45
In this module, we’ll dive into the emerging trends that are reshaping the career landscape. Understanding these trends is critical to future-proofing your career, as they help you spot opportunities before they become mainstream. Whether it’s new technologies, shifts in the job market, or changes in how we work, staying ahead of these trends will keep you competitive and relevant.
- Three Trends in skills and work5:37
The video discusses three key work trends to watch:
1. AI and Automation
2. Gig Economy and Remote Work
3. Hybrid Working
The video emphasizes the importance of adapting to these trends to future-proof your career and stay ahead in the job market .
- Building your understanding of cost drivers in your business
- Timeless skills3:54
The video discusses the importance of timeless skills such as leadership, emotional intelligence, and AI. It emphasizes the need for problem-solving abilities, creativity, and the ability to bring people together to find solutions to challenges.
- Digital Domains - Collaboration, Cyber, Cloud, AI9:27
Several critical digital skills development knowledge domains are essential for professionals to thrive in a digital-first economy. These domains will provide you with the skills to succeed in a rapidly evolving digital economy.
- Lessons from Nigeria, Uganda and Spain4:28
Importance of Digital Infrastructure: Consider the broader infrastructure that supports digital services, including networks, power supply, and engineering.
- Digital Domains - Data Literacy and Analytics6:48
Several critical digital skills development knowledge domains are essential for professionals to thrive in a digital-first economy.
- Developing Industry and Functional expertise3:52
This video is all about how to keep your career on track by looking at things from an organizational and functional perspective.
- Developing Organisational Adaptability and Transformation skills3:12
This video talks about how important it is for organizations to be adaptable and ready for the future.
- Organisational context slides with the above as narration3:52
- Organisational Adaptability and Transformation slides with the above narration3:12
- Learn more about your organisation and marketplace and reflect on your readiness
- Complex and Wicked Problems in Cyber and the Online world4:21
- Design Thinking3:51
Design thinking empowers user-centric problem solving through creativity, iterative testing, and system-wide analysis, while combining data gathering, brainstorming, and advanced thinking with workshops and lessons learned.
- Data Gathering and Modeling4:04
- Brainstorming4:53
Become a better brainstormer. You can use AI to enhance brainstorming in several ways.
- Problem Solving3:57
The video discusses various thinking and problem-solving skills essential for future-proofing one's career.
- Project, Programme and Product Management - Delivering digital products12:23
- Project Team Competencies1:22
What is a team?
How do teams form, norm, and perform?
How to coach teams to improve their performance.
- Part 1 - 8 Predictors of Team Performance5:33
The video discusses eight predictors of team performance derived from an ADP study.
- Part 2 - The life cycle of a team and time to performance5:26
Explore the life cycle of a team from forming to performing, including storming, norming, and swarming, and learn how coaching, leadership, and enablement accelerate time to high performance.
- Part 3 of the team lifecycle3:05
The video discusses team dynamics and the Edge leadership framework, which includes engaging, enabling, encouraging, and evaluating.
- Recap the SatisFactors approach to self-assessment to introduce the work factors9:58
This recap of the Life SatisFactors exercise introduction is so that you can apply the same logic to work skills and competencies in the following lectures.
This is not the Life SatisFactors exercise. That is presented earlier in the course.
- The key skills SatisFactors workbook [Learn how from the Recap lesson]0:05
Take a look at your satisfaction with key workplace skills such as:
Customer Relationships and Satisfaction
Industry Domain Knowledge
Function-Specific Knowledge
Agile and Hyper Agile
Hybrid
Design Thinking
Transformation
Data Gathering and Modeling
Requirements Management and Traceability
Time Estimation
Communication
Adaptability
Brainstorming
Interpersonal Skills
Problem Solving
Teamwork
- The Future-Proof skills workbook based on earlier development actions ideas0:03
Requirements
- No prior experience is required.
Description
Ambitious?
Struggling with uncertainty in the workplace?
Fear being left behind by emerging digital business technology?
The rules of work have changed - and they’re still changing. In a digital-first world, career paths are no longer linear, and success requires more than technical skills.
Be empowered in the face of accelerating change.
Learn about the changing workplace and skill requirements.
AI such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Designer - the list grows every day - is an enabler and a threat. If you recognise the opportunity to excel and shine in the digital world including AI you stand out and leapfrog your competition at work.
For life coaches, leadership coaches, and career counselors, this means understanding the shifting landscape to effectively guide clients.
For career builders, career changers, and job seekers, it means knowing what’s ahead so you can craft your own plan for growth and resilience.
Take control and create your development plan.
This course equips you with the essential context, insight, and foundational understanding of the forces reshaping work today. Whether you’re coaching others through transition or navigating your own career, you’ll gain the clarity needed to help yourself or your clients thrive.
Learn the key global trends reshaping work—and why they matter for career strategy.
Who this course is for:
- Mid-to-late career individuals looking to stay relevant and purposeful in a digital-first economy
- Career changers ready to align their work with their values, skills, and lifestyle goals
- Professionals navigating job loss or redundancy who want to rebuild with clarity and confidence
- Freelancers, digital nomads, and portfolio career builders seeking to craft a flexible, sustainable path