Programs in Support of Welfare Reform and New Entrants to the Workplace
Workforce Development Professional Training Series*
Module 1 Self Awareness = 4 days
Module 2 Essential Clinical Skills =4 1/2 days
Module 3 Facilitating Support Groups = 2 days
This program is designed to prepare the Workforce Development Professional*
(WDP) with foundational skills, and knowledge critical for intervening
and facilitating self-awareness and problem solving skills among customers
in various stages of the customer's career development.
The focus is to develop the WDP's self-awareness and essential core
clinical skills as critical competencies for their role as agent of
change.
Module 1 - Self Awareness
Purpose - To increase self awareness as a critical competency of an
agent of change. Consists of 3 workshops Myers-Briggs, Change & Transition
and Anger Management
Module 2 - Essential Clinical Skills of the WDP
Purpose - To develop the foundational skill set of Workforce Development
Professionals. This module includes a pre-test, skill building, videotaping,
final examination and awarding of certificate.
Module 3 - Facilitating Support Groups
Purpose - To provide the Workforce Development Professional with group
facilitation skills.
Each module can be used as stand alone training. All three modules
are constructed to serve as a certificate program for the workforce
development professional.
The workshop objectives are to:
- Increase understanding of the self-awareness requirements of an
effective counseling relationship and its impact on establishing trusting
relationships with customers
- Identify various dimensions of job role and assess potential impact
on customer
- Practice trust building, listening, questioning and, problem solving
techniques, career management and retention strategies.
- Develop skills for diagnosing why customers have greater or lesser
success in certain environments in order to: assess job fit, plan
and set goals, incorporate interests and environmental constraints.
- Customize an approach to working with customers to be able to support
them and challenge them based upon where they are and the customers'
current decision making mode.
- Assist customers in identifying and dealing with their own anger;
to understand the impact of anger and how it diminishes their ability
to make "good" choices.
*Workforce Development Professional is a generic term that
applies toany person working in a helping relationship with customers/clients
with the goal of assisting them in getting ready to enter the workplace,
managing adjustment issues while in the workplace or making decisions
about new career changes. Typically workforce development professionals
are called: Employment Advisors, Career Advisors, Case Managers, Advisors,
Job Developers, etc.
Supervisory Skills Training to Increase Employee Retention
(see Business Services)
Welfare to Work Partnerships and Business Collaborations
Career Consciousness will partner with your organization to design
training programs to increase employment opportunities for underserved
populations.