Reinvent Your Career

Name: Reinvent Your Career
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Learn how to identify, design and plan for a professional career change to do the work that really fulfills you

Created byJane Lewis, Ruth Robertson, Katie Botten

Last updated 8/2016

English

What you'll learn

At the end of our course, students will be able to implement a plan to reinvent their career having:
Taken stock of their current reality of the career to date, their skills, values, strengths, needs and resources;
Explored their ‘why’ and created an inspiring vision for their working lives;
Produced and evaluated a range of options for their reinvented career and decided which option(s) to pursue;
Formulated a plan and identified how to overcome obstacles and create the confidence needed to reinvent their career.

Course content

6 sections • 22 lectures • 2h 10m total length

Introduction to the Reinvent Your Career program7:24
Congratulations for signing up for our Reinvent Your Career course. We are delighted that you have decided to invest in your career reinvention! This is an introductory video from Jane explaining what's in store for you during the course and how to prepare yourself so that you can get the most from our career reinvention process.

Use this link to join our private Reinvent Your Career Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/380041302098895/
Piecing Together Your Career Reinvention Jigsaw3:39
In this short PowerPoint video, Katie describes our Career Reinvention Jigsaw and how to use the tool during the program.

Skills Audit6:37
The Skills Audit module enables you to identify your most valuable skills and potential skills to develop further. Katie will explain how to audit your skills using the Skills Audit spreadsheet,
Learning from Your Career Journey9:04
In this module, Ruth will take you through how to complete two activities:

An exercise in looking back at your career journey to date and what you can learn from that;
An exercise where you look back at your achievements and successes to start building a foundation for your reinvented career.
Exploring Your Values8:29
Jane will guide you through this module to help you explore your Values - the things that are most important for you to have in your working life.
Discover Your Strengths13:13
This is an exercise in identifying your significant strengths and how to build on them; you'll also identify the things that weaken you and explore how to reduce or eliminate them.
Tap into Your Inner Wisdom7:55
This is a guided meditation narrated by Katie where we will help you to tap into your inner wisdom, followed by a reflection exercise.
Assess Your True Needs3:53
This is an exercise described by Katie to assess your true needs from your reinvented career - extrinsic rewards, such as salary and benefits; limiting factors, such as the where, when and how.
Enrich Your Resources3:42
Katie will take you through an activity in enriching your resources for career reinvention, such as your physical environment, tools and equipment, your online brand and your reinvention fund.

Introduction to Phase Two - Create Your Career Vision4:34
Congratulations for completing Phase One of the Reinvent Your Career course. We hope you have enjoyed the process of reflection and rediscovery and have made some powerful connections and new insights. During the next phase of the program, you will create your career vision! This is an introduction from Jane explaining what's in store for you during the next three modules and some advice on how to transition to this key stage of reinventing your career.

Before you get started on phase two, we’d like you to watch the video of Steve Jobs’ commencement speech to students at Stanford University:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Step Into Your Future12:20
In this module, Katie will guide you through a powerful, physical activity, called "Step into Your Future” where you will integrate everything you’ve learned, discovered and rediscovered as you’ve worked through phase one. You will need to hand six pieces of plain A4 paper, a small notepad and pen and a quiet uninterrupted space with at least 6 feet (1.5 metres) in front of you.
Know Your 'Why'3:22
In this module, Ruth will show you two exciting activities to discover your "why" and create your career vision. You can view Simon Sinek's TED Talk, 'Start with Why' at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sioZd3AxmnE
Visualise Your Future5:18
In this module, Jane will talk you through a creative process to come up with your career vision.
You can view Patti Dobrowolski's TEDx Talk, 'Draw Your Future' here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7KRSCyLqc4

Introduction to Phase Three - Generate Possibilities2:43
Congratulations for completing Phase Two of the Reinvent Your Career course. We hope you have created a powerful vision for your career and are ready to move into producing possibilities for the shape that your new career might take.
You'll start with this video introduction from Jane explaining what's in store for you during phase three and some advice on how to approach this stage of reinventing your career.
The first module in phase three will enable you will make the transition from the vision you created to generating some more concrete career options. In the second module, you will evaluate a shortlist of options.

You can view Professor Lynda Gratton's TEDx Talk, 'How to be ready for your future, now' at:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZ3eKbFi3g
From Vision to Options3:42
In this module, you will work on making the key transition from the vision you've created for your career to generating options for what you might be doing in your reinvented career. Ruth will explain the process to you.
Evaluating Your Options4:24
In this module, Katie will describe how you can take the multiple options you generated in the previous module and narrow them to a shortlist of up to three.

Introduction to Phase Four2:05
Congratulations on completing Phase Three of the Reinvent Your Career course. We hope you're feeling energised by the possibilities you have produced during this phase and have generated some exciting options for your new career. Here's a video introduction from Jane explaining what's in store for you during these final four modules and some advice on how to approach this stage of reinventing your career.
During the fourth and final phase of the course, you will decide on and design an action plan for your reinvented career.
Making Your Career Decision5:38
In this module, Ruth will show you how to apply a systematic process to analyze the options you shortlisted in the previous module and arrive at a decision on the way forward for your reinvented career.
Reconnecting with your Wisest Self9:03
In this module, you will listen to another Guided Meditation to tap into your inner wisdom as you make the key decision on your career direction.
Planning for Your Reinvented Career5:35
In this module, Ruth will take you through how to create a phased action plan for your reinvented career.
Overcoming Obstacles and Creating Confidence5:03
In this module, Katie will show you how to identify how to overcome obstacles and create the self-confidence to move towards your inspiring new career.

Requirements

All materials required for the course will be provided as downloadable pdfs, many of which will require printing and collating into one file. Student will therefore need Adobe Acrobat Reader and access to a printer. There are no specific actions that students need to take before the course begins.

Description

Would you like to make changes to your current career or find a new career but don't know what that might look like or how to get started? Then, our Reinvent Your Career course will guide you through a comprehensive journey of taking stock of where you are now, clarifying your vision for your future career, deciding what you want and then planning how to get there.

The content of this course is based on our many years' combined experience in career development coaching and the latest research in psychology and personal development. The course has 17 sequential modules, each of which has a video-based lecture to explain the topic and a worksheet downloadable as a PDF for you to work through an activity on your own at a pace and timing that suits you. We've included a range of interesting and engaging activities, such as self-analyses, guided meditations, reading, educational video clips and TED Talks - something to suit all learning styles. There is a total of 80 minutes in video lectures, 15 hours of practical activities and another 55 minutes in educational video clips.

When we spend so much of our waking time at work, we owe it to ourselves to use that time well. If you're a mid-career professional who would love to get the career satisfaction, success and fulfilment you've always wanted, and make the most of your inherent strengths and skills, then this is the course for you.

Who this course is for:

The specific need(s) this course is catering to: • People who are looking for a complete career change but don’t know where to start the process of bringing about that change; • People who might have some ideas of what they’d love their future working life to look like but want to go through a robust process to test their options and create a plan to get there; • People whose present career might not be needed in the coming years and so need to research and decide upon alternative options.
Who this course is best suited for: Experienced professional men and women who are part-way through their careers but who want something different from their working lives.
Who the course is NOT for: Recent school, college or university leavers who have limited or no experience in a professional career. People in manual or unskilled jobs.

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Course Introduction2 lectures • 11min

Phase One - Taking Stock7 lectures • 53min

Phase Two - Create Your Career Vision4 lectures • 26min

Phase Three - Generate Possibilities3 lectures • 11min

Phase Four - Decide and Plan5 lectures • 27min

Conclusion1 lecture • 3min

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