Tools

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

Career Action Inventory™Tool for CvareerPower (CP)
Career Action Inventyory
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.
Length of Time to Complete: 30 minutes

Career Coaching Survey™ Tool for CvareerPower (CPC)
Career Coaching Survey
This self-assessment helps managers and coaches pinpoint their own strength and opportunities to build on their career coaching skills.
Length of Time to Complete: 30 minutes

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Career Conversation Cues™ Tool for CvareerPower (CPC)
Career Conversation Cues
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.

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Career Leverage Inventory® Tool for CvareerPower (CP)
Career Leverage Inventory
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.
Length of Time to Complete: 20 minutes.

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Career Savvy Booklet Tool for CvareerPower (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.

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Connections: A Networking Map™ Tool for CvareerPower (CP)
Connections: A Netweorking Map
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.
Length of Time to Complete: 20 - 30 minutes.

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Deal Me In Cards® Tool for CvareerPower (CP & CPC)

Deal Me In Cards

A unique deck of 52 color-coded sorting cards, The Deal Me In Cards® 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.

Length of Time to Complete: 15 minutes in the solitaire format, or 30 minutes in the rummy format.

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The Development Planner Tool for CvareerPower (CP)

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

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The Feedback Wheel™ Tool for CvareerPower (CP & CPC)
Feedback Wheel
The Feedback WheelT 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.

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Invest in Your Values™ Tool for CareerPower (CP & CPC)
Invest In Your Values

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.
Length of Time to Complete: 30-45 minutes.

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The Learning Zones Package™
The Learning Zones PackageT 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.
Length of Time to Complete: Approximately 10 minutes

Sustainers

ACTION BASED SUSTAINERS

CareerCorner™

A convenient on-line sustainer tool, will deepen the impact of CareerPowerT and CareerPower for CoachesT 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