Career Coaching for Women: Supercharge Your Career with AllBright
Enhance your career development using skills and support designed to empower women and business.
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Career Coaching for Women: Supercharge Your Career with AllBright
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Realise your professional ambitions with AllBright Academy
Designed for women wanting to push their career forward with renewed vigour or forge a new professional direction, this four-week course explores what drives women to excel in work and how to reflect this in your career choices.
You’ll become equipped with the skills and tools you need to plan your career trajectory and take the next steps towards achieving your career targets.
Upskill with experts experienced in female career progression at AllBright
AllBright is a network and community that connects smart-thinking women through members’ clubs in London and LA.
This course is led by experts at AllBright’s digital training platform, AllBright Academy, designed to upskill and educate women looking for the practical tools and inspiration to further their career.
Assess your career motivation and career goals
You’ll analyse your core values, completing an honest assessment of your personal and professional strengths and weaknesses.
Using self-reflective tools and insights, you’ll analyse how effectively you push your strengths and manage your weaknesses, and explore strategies to take advantage of your unique skill set. With this knowledge, you’ll learn to unlock your potential and commit to a desired career direction.
Create a career development plan
Armed with your personal self-assessment, you’ll learn how to set career goals that are aligned with your motivations and value system.
You’ll consider how to hold yourself accountable to these goals and discover techniques for overcoming any challenges that come between you and your career development plan.
By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge, insights, and confidence to pursue your career goals using tried and tested development tools and techniques, aimed to give you the competitive edge in your chosen career.
Syllabus
Week 1
Start with 'Why?'
Believe, Build, Become
Let's get you started. Listen to this audio welcome message from your course creators, AllBright.
Introduction to Project You: Supercharge your career.
In this course you will hear from AllBrights co-founders, Anna Jones and Debbie Wosskow, who will introduce each chapter and share personal stories from their own careers. They are here to guide you in supercharging your career.
The Importance of 'Why?'
Introducing you to ‘Why?’. This chapter begins with why ‘Why?’ is so important in relation to your career choices.
Finding your own 'Why?'
This activity is a chance for you to discover what your own motivations and drivers are.
Accessing your power
This activity is a chance for you to uncover the power within your ‘Why?’ and how to enhance and utilise that.
Chapter Case Study
This activity is here to inspire and offer stories from successful business women who have dared to dream and in the process have used their ‘Why?’ to fuel their ambitions.
Making choices and decisions
This activity will share with you how to use your ‘Why?’ checklist when making career choices.
Becoming accountable
This activity will share with you how 'Why?' holds you accountable, helping you to align to what motivates you and make career choices from there.
Taking Action
This activity will share with you how to Supercharge your career with ‘Why?’.
Everyday You
This activity is here to support you on a daily basis, focusing you on that one thing you can do this week to serve your understanding and integration of this chapter's subject, ‘Start with ‘Why?’.
Chapters Summary and Resources
This activity is here to support you in bringing together the key points that have been covered within this chapter with your chapter coach and mentor, Sagina Shabaya.
Week 2
Discover your values
Values
This chapter begins by uncovering what a value is, with examples of how values can support you in your career and how by outlining your own clear values, you can find greater satisfaction and happiness at work.
Discovering your own values
This activity is a chance for you to discover your own values by participating in Sue Belton’s visualisation exercise.
Deepening your relationship with values
This activity is where you get to expand the meaning of each value and deepen your connection to it, exploring what each means to you.
Chapter Case Study
This activity is here to inspire and offer stories from successful business women who have dared to dream and in the process have acknowledged their own values as a key to unlocking their success.
Uncovering dissonance
This activity is where you get to find out where you are honouring and dishonouring your values. It will highlight the ‘rightness’ that is available once you uncover the dissonance you created.
Claiming your chosen career path
This activity is where Sue Belton will be getting you to create your own values compass – your very own values touchstone that will allow you to navigate your career with clarity and integrity.
Taking Action
This activity will share with you how to supercharge your career with clear ‘values’.
Everyday You
This activity is here to support you on the daily. Focusing you in on that one thing you can do this week to serve your understanding and integration of this chapter's subject. ‘Discover your values’.
Chapter Summary and Resources
This activity is here to support you in bringing together all the key points that have been covered within this chapter with your chapter coach and mentor, Sue Belton.
Week 3
Get to know yourself
Who are you?
This chapter is about self reflection, supercharging your career by knowing who you are. From here, you can expand your network, make new connections, create opportunities and making it easier for people to be able to support you.
How well do you know yourself?
This activity is a chance for you to get to know yourself and observe how you introduce yourself, with an exercise to help you create your own one-line tagline.
Acknowledge your strengths
This activity is where we break down your skills, discover stories of when you used them successfully and look at the impact or results they have helped you create.
Chapter Case Study
This activity is here to inspire and offer stories from successful business women who have dared to dream and discovered that knowing yourself and being clear on your strengths, can be a real game-changer.
Integrate your weaknesses
Check-in with the stories you have around the parts of your skillset that you perceive as weaknesses; Ask if it is actually a weakness and consider what it might be like if this weakness was, in fact, a strength.
Becoming purposeful
This activity aims to connect you to the times in your life when you have felt the happiest and most fulfilled. Allowing you to discern what your purpose is.
Owning who you are
This activity is where you acknowledge just how valuable you are and commit to sharing that value publicly on social platforms like LinkedIn.
Everyday You
This activity is here to support you on a daily basis, focusing you in on that one thing you can do this week to serve your understanding and integration of this chapter's subject, getting to know yourself.
Chapter Summary and Resources
This activity is here to support you in bringing together the key points that have been covered with your chapter coach and mentor, Sonya Barlow.
Week 4
Supercharge your career
Goals
This chapter begins by uncovering what a SMART goal is, with examples of how to make sure your goals are both measurable and achievable.
The importance of goals
In this activity, Yvette will share with you why it is that creating realistic and measurable goals are so integral to supercharging your career.
Learning about SMART goals
In this activity, Yvette Ankrah will explain all about SMART goals and how you can create your own.
Chapter Case Study
This activity is here to inspire and offer stories from successful business women who have dared to dream and, in the process, have acknowledged their own values as a key to unlocking their success.
Achieve your goals
This activity explores the five C’s: Connection, communication, clarity, commitment and celebration, all of which you will need to support you in achieving your goals.
Taking Action
Taking action. This activity will share with you how to supercharge your career with a clear 90 day plan to support your SMART goal.
Everyday You
This activity is here to support you on the daily. Focusing you in on that one thing you can do this week to serve your understanding and integration of this chapter's subject,‘supercharge your career’.
Chapter Summary and Resources
This activity is here to support you in bringing together all the key points that have been covered by your chapter coach and mentor, Yvette Ankrah.
Whole Course Summary
This activity is here to support you in bringing the key points of the whole course together. A central place for all that has been covered across all four chapters.
What's Up Next?
Listen to the audio message from AllBright to introduce you to your next course.
Who is this accredited by?
The content of the following course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles.
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Identify and assess your strengths and weaknesses and demonstrate whether you are utilising and managing them well enough in relation to your career.
- Produce a set of goals that are aligned with your motivations and value system and explore how to be accountable to these goals.
- Practice techniques for overcoming barriers to your goals.
- Create a clear action plan to supercharge your career.
Who is the course for?
This course is for professional women of all ages who want to focus on their personal development goals and create a ripple effect that will have a positive impact on their career, wellbeing, and relationships.
If you want to further your knowledge, you may be interested in these courses. They’re also developed by AllBright and feature the same overall learning outcomes:
Who will you learn with?
I am transformational business coach, consultant, speaker and recovering overachiever!
I have over 20 years of experience and am an accredited NLP and Performance coach.
Founder @LMFnetwork
Award winning Entrepreneur @sonyabarlowuk
Business Coach
Diversity Expert
Currently writing a business book with Kogan Page, to be released October 2021
A Leadership & Career Coach specialising in developing leaders and founders to clarify and live their purpose. Author, Change Your Life in 5
Co-Founder of AllBright
Co-Founder of AllBright
Who developed the course?
AllBright
AllBright is all about inspiring change. Founded in 2018 by Debbie Wosskow OBE and Anna Jones, we’re a global women’s network acting as a springboard for smart-minded women of all ages and stages. Through our beautiful clubs and AllBright Digital, our sisterhood is helping shape a new narrative for those who want to supercharge their careers.
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
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