Career Systems International

Tools
Sustainers

Used as part of a workshop or on a stand alone basis, these Career Development tools are available in paper or on-line versions.

Career Action Inventory® (CP)
This self-scoring inventory helps determine the action an individual has taken towards planning his/her career. It can be used in career development briefings, benchmarking, and attitude surveys.

Career Coaching Survey™ (CPC)
This self-assessment helps managers and coaches pinpoint their own strength and opportunities to build on their career coaching skills.

Career Conversation Cues™ (CPC)
These unique, fan-out cards summarize ways that managers/coaches can facilitate effective conversations with employees through the use of action steps and starter questions related to five coaching responsibilities.

Career Leverage Inventory® (CP)
An instrument that can be used for individual goal setting, managing change, and performance management. User's responses to statements and a scoring sheet produce a rating for the desirability of various career options.

Career Savvy Booklet™ (CP)
Offers 12 savvy behaviors that will enable employees to expand their capacity to grow and change, and provides action alternatives/concepts to increase career savviness.

Connections: A Networking Map® (CP)
This colorful fold-out tool teaches employees and managers the Five "Knows" of Networking and helps them begin to build a map that ties their personal and professional needs to their existing and future networks. This is an excellent tool for mentoring programs, outplacement counseling, and teambuilding.

Deal Me In ® Card Deck (CP & CCM)
A unique deck of 52 color-coded sorting cards, the Deal Me In® Card Deck can be played in either a solitaire or rummy format, to help uncover interests and skills. The cards are available in four languages and help identify and analyze changes in an individual's career. Activities outlined can also be used for team-building, performance management, and interviewing skills.

Development Planner™ (CP)
Organizes an individual's plan of action around six sections: Development Actions, Success Indicators, Learning Activities, Resources, Feedback Providers, and Deadlines.

Feedback Wheel® (CP)
The Feedback Wheel® provides a quick five-step method that helps employees and managers master the feedback process. One side of the wheel focuses on Getting Feedback from a variety of key sources; the other side explains Giving Feedback in a constructive and honest manner. The Wheel can be used for career development, performance appraisal, and individual counseling.

Invest in Your Values® (CP & CCM)
This unique approach to values clarification uses a game-board setting for fun and insightful learning. It can be used in teambuilding, redeployment, diversity training, and one-on-one counseling.

Learning Zones™ (CP)
The Learning Zones ™ is a fast, easy-to-use, but incredibly revealing 360-degree feedback tool. With very little effort, users are able to assess for themselves, and from others (package includes 1 self and 3 respondent sets), their "polished" or mature skills, areas requiring continuous improvement, and their "rough-edged" zones.

We will work with you to deliver and execute sustainer events, tools, and/or activities to reinforce and maintain the talent management principles and actions based on ongoing organization and individual needs.

Utilizing off-the-shelf, new offerings, and/or customized approaches, we can work with you in a variety of ways to sustain your development initiative:

CareerCorner™

A convenient on-line sustainer tool, will deepen the impact of CareerPower™ and CareerPower for Coaches™ learning experiences. It will help keep the lessons and the learning spirit alive long after the initial training has ended, when your people want practical feedback for real-world situations. Convenient and easy to use, CareerCorner™ reinforces training content, further explains concepts, supplies a useful FAQ section and provides a way for members of your organization to directly contact a Career Coach for valuable clarifications and advice. With a detailed database mechanism, it is easy to track how many people ask questions and within which sections. This valuable information can be used by organizations to not only support those involved in coaching and developing careers, but also by the organization to identify potential weak spots within their internal structure and address them.

Career Action Teams

Our consulting/coaching experts can work with you to formalize Career Action Teams for your employees participating in the learning experience(s). By creating teams of employees, they learn to network and partner to keep motivated towards driving their own careers. These teams will enhance the experience of the process, improve their results, and provide them with other perspectives as they learn more about themselves. Through a deeper dive through the five P's, employees will be encouraged and enlightened as they continue their development and actions. (Learning materials available).

Development Opportunity Groups

Our consulting/coaching experts can work with you to formalize Development Opportunity Groups for your learning managers/coaches. By creating teams of managers, they will learn to network and partner with their peers to increase their coaching capabilities. These teams will enhance the experience of the process (the five L's), improve their results, and provide them with “best practices” as they continue practicing their new role as career coach. (Learning materials available).

* See also Books

Munch & Learns/Mini Modules

Based on the specific needs of an organization following the initial learning experience.

Consulting

A consulting partnership offers an opportunity to work with Human Resources, Senior Leaders, and/or initiative sponsors to understand the business goals and alignment with your talent initiative. This partnership will evaluate results, assess additional needs, and recommend/implement additional experiences to sustain the learnings. Consulting

Coaching

Managers who participate in Career Systems' learning experiences gain an overall perspective on how to keep talent, while employee participants learn how to take control of their satisfaction. Both leave with a process to follow and a plan of what actions they will take. Coaching

Engagement & Retention

Career Systems offers a variety of its award-winning engagement and retention solutions for both managers and employees, to apply a more directed effort into strengthening the manager behaviors to support the development initiative. Engagement

Mentoring

Career Systems offers several mentoring solutions to meet multiple learning needs. By adding mentoring to your engagement and development initiative, you can strengthen the culture of learning and define roles, goals, and tasks for both the mentors and mentees. Mentoring

Internal Marketing and Communications

continue to be critical as participants practice their new behaviors and continue taking actions towards building a development culture. We provide an internal marketing and administrative kit to support our clients.