Gen Y grew up surfing the Internet, watching startups rise and fall, interning in a global workforce and rejecting any boundaries to communication. As a result, they have a different view of work and how they fit into a corporate culture historically guided by hierarchical structures. Erica has a gift for teaching this generation how to make the most of their unique talents, approaches and ambition while continuing to respect and work alongside—and often lead—other generations.
Your Gen Y and emerging professional audience leaves Erica’s talent development program able to:
- Value the unique perspective they bring to the workplace and use it to their advantage without alienating those who have a different mindset
- Capitalize on every generation, especially those with more work and life experience and learn how to bring all points of view to bear on a project
- Grow the practical skills and real-world tools necessary to lead different generations—including those that came before them
Erica’s 4-part program could be delivered as a one-day training, a 4-part series, or a one-off workshop for your orientation, retreat, or professional development series.
This program is ideal for: analyst/associate orientations, seminars, events, young professional development conferences and retreats.
Part 1 – Game Planning Your Career Development
This workshop will offer concrete strategies for helping participants develop and build a personal game plan for their career. With multi-page handouts to launch the process and peer coaching to help shape the plan, this session will help each participant clearly articulate key priorities and action steps to get them where they want to go, mobilize support, identify potential obstacles and prepare to immediately execute meaningful and strategic steps to ignite their career.
At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to:
- Understand the components of any successful game plan
- Create an individualized game plan and a map for implementing it
- Give and receive peer feedback
- Identify and evaluate potential pitfalls and how to navigate them on the fly
Part 2 – Crafting Your Career Narrative
Storytelling and personal branding are a critical component of your employees’ career development. In this part of the training participants will learn how to create their brand story in order to raise their visibility, highlight the best parts of who they are and what they bring to the table and manage the way they are perceived by others.
At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to:
- Recognize that one’s life experiences are accessible and valuable tools for leadership and advancement
- Identify at least 5 life experiences that could be used to craft strategically purposeful narratives
- Shape and share at least one story to build their brand
- Give and receive peer feedback
- Use a simple technique for soliciting meaningful feedback about stories that could be used to enhance their narrative
- Learn one formula for structure that will help participants establish credibility and authority in the workplace
Part 3 – Building an Essential Support Network
This workshop will offer concrete strategies for developing and managing successful and strategic relationships with mentors and sponsors as your employees build their career. Participants learn concrete strategies for developing successful and strategic mentor/sponsor relationships, as well as the importance of soliciting and receiving feedback.
At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to:
- Define at least 3 career challenges
- Create a list of possible mentors or sponsors that would be able to help them overcome those challenges
- Practice “asks” to develop clarity and tone of ask
- Give and receive peer feedback
- Gain knowledge of behaviors that are necessary for positive outcomes with mentors and sponsors and be able to practice them immediately with a chosen mentor
Part 4 – People, Power and Politics
In this part of the training participants learn how to understand and analyze the people, systems, and politics of their environment. They leave understanding the skills and tools necessary for making strategic choices regarding their career and goals, both in the short-term and long-term.
At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to:
- Define the importance and nature of political skill
- Recognition that political skill is essential to exercising influence, leading effectively and achieving career goals
- Distinguish between political skills and disingenuous behaviors within the context of their personal leadership brand
- Explore how political intelligence can reduce stress and increase satisfaction in the workplace
- Develop practical strategies that can be implemented in the work place
If you have a pool of top, new talent that would benefit from this training, contact Erica to discuss how she can help.
Additional session:
Cross Generation Communication – Half-Day Workshop
Does this sound familiar? You have a brilliant idea for a new project, product or technique that you can’t wait to share with the higher ups. The only problem is that when you’re finally given the floor your pitch falls flat. Was it your approach? Your style of communication? Or, was it the idea itself?
In this workshop, we teach you how to manage relationships up the ladder, give and receive productive feedback, improve your communication skills, make your ideas presentable and get results that benefit everyone. This course boosts intergenerational communication, enhances team learning, fosters a more creative corporate culture and amps up your retention rates.
Attendees will leave with a full script of questions to ask, insight on how to ask them, and questions to be prepared for as they enter their new roles.
