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Important questions to ask yourself:<br />Where are you in your company’s succession plan? <br />Does your current boss and her boss support your growth and development?<br />Do you have a structured development plan for your current role and for future ones?<br />Do you have a mentor outside of your department who is more senior than you, well respected within the firm/industry and that you can speak openly and honestly with?<br />Are you involved with important initiatives and projects going on within the company or the industry?<br />Do you belong to professional organizations and are you actively involved with them other than attending meetings?<br />Where do you want to be in five years? <br />Where does your company see you in five years?<br />Do you have a plan to get there? Who is managing that plan?<br />

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Consider this –<br />Career development is a critical life process that every one of us should take ownership of. <br />Self-discovery is at the root of a successful career; knowing where your strengths and weaknesses lie is not a cliché. <br />Positioning yourself as an expert in your field, taking advantage of the current programs and people you have available to you in your current position and reaching out to your industry and community is crucial in career development.<br />Communicating with your boss, their boss(es), peers, clients, subordinates, family, friends and others about your career intentions/goals and gaining their support is imperative.<br />CareerIQ is a tool that can help you bridge the gap between your company’s development programs, or lack of, and your career development and most importantly - .<br />

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The CareerIQ™Professional Development program is a powerful career development tool that helps you take control of your own destiny. It’s an experiential and individualized leadership development process that builds capabilities critical to your success - whether you’re an individual contributor or lead an entire organization. <br />

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CREATE.<br />This establishes the foundation of your individualized program. In this phase we:<br />Establish ground rules between you, your coach and your company.<br />Identify what’s important – and not important – to you in your career and how your career fits into your life.<br />Take personal inventory of who you are and where you want to go.<br />Take inventory of how others perceive you because perception IS reality.<br />Link the development opportunities, processes, people and programs within your current organization with CareerIQ.<br />Start building a plan of action and determining success factors.<br />

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CULTIVATE.<br />This phase is designed to start the growth process of your new career development commitment. We focus on the results of the action plan and focus on mastering some of the following executive competencies:<br /><ul><li> Decision making

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Problem solving

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Skill development

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Habit change

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Develop/improve relationships

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Plan strategy

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Implement strategy

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Success at a new assignment

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Improve the executive’s communication

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Manage change

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Resolve conflict

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Help gain personal awareness

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Clarify roles/responsibilities </li></li></ul><li>CONQUER.<br />Eventually, you have to apply what you’ve learned and this is the phase to do it. You’re operating outside of your comfort zone. Your career transformation takes hold and elevates. CareerIQ gives you the tools to navigate this phase by:<br />Debriefing real work scenarios of behavior change or learned skills applied and the results.<br />Measuring follow-through on commitments made.<br />Re-evaluating supports and barriers.<br />Exploring and breaking through comfort zones.<br />Checking in with your CareerIQ team members and getting their input on your progress.<br />Developing a long-term plan for success.<br />

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SUCCEED.<br />The end goal is for you to be your own executive career coach. The final phase of this program is for you to establish your support network and follow up team as well as implementing and sticking with your long term success plan.<br />We want you to be self-sufficient, successful at your business and leadership, and be a positive influence and mentor for others. <br />

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Can you afford not to raise your CareerIQ and take your career back? <br />We can provide you with talking points to meet with your manager and get this program approved and paid for by your organization. Or it may be tax-deductable.<br />Contact us today for more information at info@terrikern.org or by phone: +1.734.418.8685<br />