Friday 24 May 2013

Motivational Career Seminar - Full Description

 
Motivational Career Seminar – Saturday 29th June 2013
Map your motivation as a tool to navigate career success today
Map your future career path with Ignite
Two experts. One day. One map. Your future career.
Purpose
Each week we encounter many professionals across a number of business sectors who ask us for advice about their career trajectory, keen for ideas and tactics yet short of time. The most commonly asked questions we receive are “Where next for me in my current role? How can I get there?

Our solution is therefore to compress all our ideas and experience of resolving these questions into one day of coaching with 10 highly motivated individuals who want to crack the code to career success. We are very much focused on delivering a seminar which is focused on you achieving  “what next “ and “when “ in your career.

Our plan for the day is to provide a variety of tools and frameworks which give clarity and insight on how to get on the right career track and build the motivation to achieve those goals. We take time to listen and understand exactly the context in which each participant operates best to focus the coaching on options and goals and how to achieve them.  The afternoon is dedicated to developing an action plan tailored to each individual and his / her own particular professional discipline, career path and business sector.

We also offer follow up after our session to ensure that you are on track to reaching your goals as swift execution of your plan is a critical success factor in achieving your plan.

We look forward to seeing you on the 29th June.

Who are we?

Motivational Career Seminars is a collaboration between Sarah Dudney Ignite, and Simon Jones, Campbell Black – a compelling combination of experienced coaching, career advisory, recruitment and executive experience.

Sarah Dudney Sarah has over 11 years experience of career management, recruitment and search in the City of London working with asset management houses, banks in EMEA and North America working at Managing Director and at Director level in a number of disciplines. 

Simon Jones is an experienced CEO, Chairman, Non-Executive Director, Board advisor and business coach with a track record over 20+ years of successfully growing companies and supporting individuals realise their professional ambitions.

Ignite offers a unique coaching programme for individuals who have reached an inflection point in their career and require career transition services.  Ignite works with hedge funds, asset management companies and leading law firms.

Campbell Black Recruitment Ltd provides executive search, recruitment, talent and team development services for high growth companies and people with a specific focus on telecoms, software and energy sectors.

Background and goals
We run Motivational Career Seminars to provide a unique and stimulating environment for ambitious professionals to explore the dimensions through which to drive their career success.

The Seminar addresses all the elements of an effective and motivating career strategy in just one day. It provides time for creativity, practice, reflection, and action planning with accountability and also a flexible and interactive environment that adapts to the specific needs of each group of participants.

It is suitable for all those who want to challenge themselves to achieve more, those who have ambitions beyond their current role, those looking to accelerate their career trajectory within their current organisation, looking for a new challenge altogether or find themselves involuntarily looking for alternative employment.

Our approach
Motivational Career Seminars are structured around our belief that exceptional career success and performance is critically dependent on how motivated we are.  Motivation drives engagement and commitment:
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    Performance = Skills * Motivation

Our seminars will cover all the key elements necessary to ensure you achieve your goals and potential in your career.
       Core of career success:
       We will identify what motivates you at work?
       We will describe what motivates you?
       We will measure and monitor what motivates you?
       We will help you design the appropriate career strategy to maximise your motivations?

Once we have established your core motivations we are able to apply coaching techniques to ensure you generate your personal career vision and commitment to your action plan. 
       
    Goal
       What do you want to specifically achieve?
       What is your goal/desired outcome?

       Options
       What are your options?
       Create and list as many alternative courses as possible.  Quantity of ideas more important at this stage than quality/feasibility
       Reality:
       Where are you now?
       Objective assessment of current situation.  Get clear on obstacles to overcome/challenges to meet
       
Will/Commitment:
       What are the actions you are going to take?  By when?
       Create an action list/timetable with deadlines etc.
       What could interfere with the achievement of your goals

We will also endeavour to combine the skills and experience of seminar participants to add richness and depth to our outcomes in addition to Sarah and Simon’s facilitation.

Format

       Seminars of no more than 10 participants who are keen to participate in a stimulating and collaborative environment to identify break-through career strategies
       
    Seminar outline:
       Part 1:
       Motivation mapping
       Career aspirations
       Goals and objectives
       Barriers and opportunities
       Personal elevator pitches
       Part 2:
       Two streams:
       Finding a new job:
       Key introductions
       Where are you heading? – Devising job targets
       Networking  - how to build your network from scratch
       Writing brilliant CVs and Covering letters
       Interviews- in different conditions  (role play)
       Achieving ambitions within current company
       Promotion plan
       Internal networking – goal and approach
       Team-working and communication
       Management vs leadership
       1-2-1 coaching follow-up – up to 1 month after seminar
       Assessing progress against plan
       Resolving further challenges and obstacles

Benefits:

At the end of this one-day seminar and the individual coaching session you will have clarity on:
       Differences between motivation and personality
       Strategies of how to manage each motivational preference
       Which roads are both attractive and open to you in the next 3 to 6 months
       Who are the influencers who will get you on the road to success?
       What other resources do you need
       How you can use the motivation and direction-setting tools in your day-to-day work

Participant Profile

       The Motivational Careers Seminar will work for you if you are:
§  On the cusp of promotion
§  Moving to a leadership role
§  Feeling blocked in current position
§  Decided to investigate opportunities elsewhere/new direction
§  Debating long term career aspirations and options
§  Uncertain about future path – feelings of underachieving, not knowing why…the fun has evaporated…what next

We create a challenging and supportive environment within which everyone can flourish and achieve break-through career strategies

Your Investment
       £400 (plus VAT) all-in
       Includes:
       Full-day workshop
       Motivational mapping tool and analysis
       30 minutes follow-up coaching session
       Refreshments and lunch during workshop

Location

The workshop will take place at:
B&F Hyde Park Executive
12th Floor, Marble Arch Tower,
55 Bryanston Street,
W1H 7AA, London

This is stunning and inspiring venue, providing the ideal background to stimulate thought and action during the workshop:
·      Close to Marble Arch tube station and luxury hotels
·      
     Natural daylight with view over the Hyde Park

   

Contact details
Mobile: 07793204220
simon.jones@campbellblack.co.uk
Mobile: 07775 684102

Map your future career path with Ignite
Two experts. One day. One map. Your future career.

What clients say about Sarah and Simon

“I really enjoy Sarah's style of inviting active participation in her coaching and her obvious delight in drawing out conclusions from me.”
Fund Manager
“From the moment of my first meeting with Sarah, working with her has proved to be an invaluable and enjoyable experience; she is smart, dedicated, full of sensible ideas and very good fun to work with.  Tactics I have learned from Sarah, some of them very subtle, have helped me to win business, no question. “
Corporate Finance Lawyer

“Simon provided extremely valuable coaching support to enable me to validate my career decisions, create a medium vision and to test out various approaches to operational and planning challenges I faced in my work. The mix of probing questions and the depth of real life experiences he could bring to bear on my goals and issues was insightful and definitely enabled me to move forward quicker and with more confidence than I would have done otherwise.”
Sales Director, Education software provider

“Simon has tremendously helped me clarifying the right career direction for me through four sessions of coaching. Simon managed to carefully listen to my intentions as well as my experience, adapted his approach to my expectations. The sessions with Simon gave me confidence in a career choice that has now happened. I strongly recommend Simon for anyone who is needing support in career development through a coaching exercise.”
Senior manager, oil and gas company

“Simon provided extremely valuable coaching support to enable me to validate my career decisions, create a medium vision and to test out various approaches to operational and planning challenges I faced in my work. The mix of probing questions and the depth of real life experiences he could bring to bear on my goals and issues was insightful and definitely enabled me to move forward quicker and with more confidence than I would have done otherwise.”
Sales Director, Education software provider

"Unlike most profiling tools that simply scratch the surface of user psychology, Motivational Maps provides deep and actionable understanding that can lead to breakthrough improvements."

Dr Dave Richards
“I have used quite a lot of psychometric type tests and found Motivational Maps to be a real eye opener. They helped to validate the decision I made a couple of years ago to change careers and seek a new path in a way that no other test could compete with. I would definitely recommend Motivational Maps as a tool to get feedback on your own and others motivations. Thank you James.”

Summary Facilitator Biographies

Sarah Dudney, Ignite

Sarah founded Ignite in 2011 in response to client demand for a more flexible and dynamic form of career transition services and coaching.  She has developed a unique coaching programme on proactive career management.  Her clients include City law and accountancy firms, commodities firms and fund management organisations. 

Ignite has been asked to advise partners in a well known City law firm on a successful career transition and has also been mandated to work for a CEO of private equity owned property company.    Sarah has over 11 years experience of recruitment and search in the City of London working with asset management houses, banks in EMEA and North America working at Managing Director and Director level across disciplines. 

Sarah has written many articles on career management, recruitment and related issues in the financial services for the Financial Times, Investment Pensions Europe, Professional Investor and Global Investor. Successfully graduating from the Meyler Campbell Business Coaching Programme in 2012, Sarah’s earlier career was spent in Edinburgh working for AEGON in a corporate planning role. She is also a University of Edinburgh Graduate.

Simon Jones, Campbell Black Ltd

Simon Jones is an experienced CEO, Chairman, Non-Executive Director, Board advisor and business coach with a track record over 20+ years of successfully growing companies and supporting individuals realise their professional ambitions.
·      Current positions:
o   Chair, Cornwall Energy, Norwich:
o   Chair/NED of 6 other high potential companies
·      Previous responsibilities:
o   CEO, Analysys Mason, Cambridge: 1998-2010
o   Economist, Management Consultant
·      Qualifications:
o   MA, MBA, FIMgt, Certified Management Consultant, Certified Business Coach (Meyler Campbell)
o   Motivational Maps – authorized practitioner
·      Industry expertise – professional services, ICT, telecommunications, publishing, health-care, energy and cleantech