Business Services
Career Consciousness provides business services
in the following areas:
- Employment Services
- Management Development
- Teambuilding and Values Clarification Workshop
- Employee Development
- Personality Assessments
- HR/OD Alliance for Small businesses and Non-Profits
1. Employment Services
Human Resource Strategy, Interviewing and Consulting
- Assist management in the critical upfront work essential for successful new hires.
- Conduct interviews and reference checks.
Employee Relations/Trouble Shooting Services
- Advice and consultation during times of crises: discipline, or employee dissatisfaction problems, leadership issues.
- Consultations for any employee or management situation where an outside perspective is needed.
2. Management Development
Executive Coaching & Intrapreneurial Development
Individual coaching sessions designed to increase self-awareness and introspection regarding leadership style and impact on others. Developmental sessions to align organizational goals and strategies with individual interests and skills. Various assessment tools are used: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), FIRO-B, Career Anchors, and 360° feedback.
Leadership for Organizational Effectiveness Workshop
5 Full Day Sessions
This program explores the principles of effective organizational leadership in order to increase the leader's capacity to meet the challenges and demands of a fast paced, chaotic and every changing marketplace. Using the perspective of human systems thinking, leaders are taught skills for effective interventions at the individual, group and organizational level. They are taught how to mobilize available energy for themselves and others. This is a highly interactive program where participants will be involved in applying workshop topics to work situations as a critical component of the workshop.
The workshop objectives are to:
- Develop self-awareness, to understand leadership strengths and identify developmental opportunities
- Understand the role of effective leaders in managing and effecting change
- Make application of human systems congruency and diagnosis
- Understand group dynamics and how to build greater team effectiveness
Supervisory Skills Training
4 Half-Day Sessions or 2 Full Day Sessions
This program will strengthen supervisors' core skills; teach effective strategies to manage issues common to employees, and make it more likely that employees will stay on the job. The goal of the training is help supervisors make the shift to coaching as the most effective process to develop their most valued resources, the employees.
This is a highly interactive program where each week, supervisors will learn, practice and receive feedback on new skills and strategies. Supervisors will be encouraged to immediately put the training to use to motivate, problem solve, and share skills.
Participants have reading assignments each week from the text for the course "Supervisor Savvy" How to Retain & Develop Entry Level Workers (2000) by JIST publishing.
The workshop objectives are to:
- Understand the impact of personal bias and assumptions and how they affect the supervisor's workplace attitudes and behaviors.
- Use a strategy of "Plan and Prepare" as the preferred technique for effective supervision.
- Practice skills toward mastery of supervisory core competencies and job duties.
- Discuss the supervisor's leadership role and linkage to other stakeholders in the organization.
3. Teambuilding & Values Clarification Workshops various options available
Myers-Briggs & Temperaments Workshop
Understanding and building upon differences is critical to developing a high performance work environment. This is a basic course in understanding self and major ways that individuals differ from one another. This understanding will translate to improving workers' abilities to negotiate their environments better and to acknowledge developmental issues.
Conflict Management Workshop
This workshop will help participants assess their conflict style and determine whether it is helping or hindering them in getting what they want from others. The Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode will serve as the catalyst for group activities to explore and access conflict styles and their effect on others and our perception of self. Participants will increase their understanding of the range of options available to manage conflict in order to respect differences and encourage synergistic solutions to problem solving.
Values Workshop
Values form the basis to understanding the underlying issues of both individuals and organizations. Values drive and motive employee's behavior. Clarifying individual and organizational values is critical to directing and influencing individual and organizational energy and resources.
Using a "Values" card sort deck, each individual reflects upon his or her values and share them with other members of the group. From the consensus of the individual values in the group, a discussion is facilitated on organizational values.
This workshop provides the medium to integrate individual needs with organizational practices and procedures.
4. Employee Development
Workplace Readiness Training Program
Career Consciousness will work with your organization to design a workplace readiness program specifically for the needs of your organization.
Workplace Competency Testing and Job Profiling Using Work Keys™
Employers need a mechanism for ensuring that workers are prepared to meet the challenges of their jobs. Work Keys(r) is a national system for determining and assessing generic workplace skills that include problem solving, communications and interpersonal skills. Simply stated "Work Keys is to businesses as SATs are to educators."
CCI can work with your human resources, training department, or directly with line managers to develop a skill improvement system that enhances an organization's learning capacity. Work Keys programs can provide the basis for a "pay-for-skills" program or a pre-certification program for entry-level new hires.
Work Keys tests are available in the following eight areas:
Problem Solving: Applied Mathematics, Applied Technology, Observation
Communication: Listening, Writing, Locating Information, Reading for Information
Interpersonal: Teamwork
5. Personality Assessments - (Now Available Online)
Career Consciousness has staff qualified and with extensive experience in administering and interpreting the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Strong Interest Inventory, Fundamental Interpersonal Relationships Orientation (FIRO-B), Career Anchors and Skillscan.
6. Human Resource/Organizational Development Alliance for Small Businesses and Non-Profits
Career Consciousness has brought together a unique complement of HR OD specialists with significant experience and genuine commitment and interest in growing small businesses. The HR/OD Alliance will provide services to small for-profit and non-profit organizations. Basic services will be made available for a monthly fee, with advanced services being offered for an additional fee/service. The following basic services will be provided through a combination of multi-client workshops and individualized consultations.
- Organizational Culture Audit
- HR Consultation & Troubleshooting
- Interviewing/Hiring Skills
- Skills Gap Analysis
- Performance Evaluation/Coaching Skills
- Policies & Procedures
- Team Building
- Valuing & Managing Diversity
- Succession Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Leadership Development