| Career Mentoring Institute has recently upgraded its | | | | explained in more detail shortly. |
| website to offer a personal and professional | | | | 4. Step 4 recognizes that life in the twenty first |
| development program to the market. This program | | | | century makes six demands on all of us concerned |
| has wide scope and applicability. It’s particularly | | | | with how we define our relationship to our work, our |
| useful for organizations. It aids staff development for | | | | family life and our broader social relationships, and |
| more effective employee development for | | | | includes issues like having a vision, pursuing mastery |
| organizations to help in personal and professional | | | | and excellence and having an inner standard to judge |
| development of their people and at the same time lifts | | | | performance. Each of these demands also imposes |
| the productivity of the organization. | | | | major psychological challenges that personal and |
| It’s likely that history’s verdict on the collapse of | | | | professional development must help people to meet. |
| the economy will be that the collapse will clear the | | | | 5. Step 5 is concerned with a person’s level of |
| way for a new era based around the repair of the | | | | awareness. They will learn that we all go through |
| repair of the Earth’s ecology. This will be a more | | | | different stages of awareness and that we have the |
| complex economy dependent upon advanced design | | | | potential to expand the way we define different |
| and operating processes. It will demand far more from | | | | aspects of our lives. Successful people know that they |
| us all. It makes sense for organizations to be involved | | | | need to expand their awareness in order to deal with |
| in the personal and professional development of their | | | | the ever increasing complexity of life in this era. This is |
| people so that they will be able to meet the new | | | | particularly important at this time when many of the |
| demands. | | | | certainties that we have lived by have broken down. |
| Broadly speaking personal and professional | | | | The five steps provide the most comprehensive set |
| development is about enhancing one’s abilities to do | | | | of tools for the personal and interpersonal dynamics of |
| one’s work. At the heart of personal and | | | | personal and professional developed ever developed |
| professional development is the individual’s interest | | | | to help people excel in the most challenging and |
| in lifelong learning and increasing skills and knowledge. | | | | demanding period ever faced by human kind. |
| To be fully effective life long learning needs to be built | | | | The core segment of the Career Mentoring |
| into the very fabric of the way one acts in day to day | | | | Institute’s personal and professional development |
| ordinary mundane activities. | | | | package to aid staff development for more effective |
| There are three types of skills and knowledge: | | | | employee development is concerned with helping |
| - Technical capacities; | | | | people develop the capacities hidden by what we call |
| - Personal capacities; | | | | the seven secrets of modern life. |
| - Interpersonal communication capacities; | | | | The seven secrets are about: |
| The Career Mentoring Institute’s personal and | | | | • Matching your talents and your interests with a |
| professional development package concentrates on | | | | field of work and industrial sector that is compatible |
| the personal and interpersonal capacities. Beyond a | | | | with your talents and interests. This is the first of the |
| certain point seldom do people stumble in the technical | | | | five steps and is incorporated as part of the seven |
| areas. It’s the personal and interpersonal areas | | | | secrets; |
| where things generally come unstuck and come | | | | • Responding in real time to the challenges you |
| unstuck they do very often. The widespread | | | | face in the most effective way possible. It’s a |
| existence of the "Peter Principle" is testimony to the | | | | major advantage to be able to respond in the right |
| fact that things come unstuck. | | | | way as events unfold. Most people recognize what |
| The Career Mentoring Institute’s personal and | | | | they should have done when it’s too late. |
| professional development package is aimed at | | | | • Adopting the role of a player rather than a victim |
| providing people with the tools to grow and develop | | | | when life deals you one of those set backs that seem |
| their personal and interpersonal capacities. In doing so | | | | to be inevitable for us all; |
| they will be much more effective in the workforce as | | | | • Achieving emotional mastery, so that you can use |
| well as better at partnering, parenting and more | | | | the energy of the emotions constructively, and not be |
| creative and effective in the wider social world. | | | | overwhelmed by emotions such as fear, anger or guilt; |
| The Five Step program’s steps are as follows: | | | | • Mastering crucial conversations where opinions |
| 1. Matching talents and interests with a field of work in | | | | differ, where the stakes are high and emotions run hot; |
| the new emerging conditions; where it will not be | | | | • Negotiating by using the crucial conversation skills |
| business as usual. This is hardly a world shattering first | | | | to seek common interests that everyone can sign up, |
| step, but we are astonished at how many people are | | | | and that results in the best decision where everyone is |
| doing work and engaged in activities that do not match | | | | satisfied; |
| their talents or interests. This step has important | | | | • Acting with integrity by making and honoring your |
| implications for determining a person’s career | | | | promises through commitment conversations; |
| options, and in making decisions on their career options | | | | These bullets points do nothing more than summarize |
| that is linked into the other four steps in the personal | | | | what is involved. On their own these bullet points don't |
| and professional development program. | | | | convey the transformational power that knowing and |
| 2. Charting a life and career path through the different | | | | using the capacities the secrets hide involve, in leading |
| levels of complexity of their chosen field of work and | | | | to the creation of personal and professional |
| industrial sector, and what it will mean to deepen the | | | | development plans. In order to appreciate the |
| qualities and capacities that will be needed to deal with | | | | transformational nature of the seven secrets we ask |
| increased complexity. We help people identify the | | | | that you visit the home page of the site, and then |
| different levels of complexity in their life path and field | | | | register to receive a copy of a short ebook "The |
| of work and also help them build goals to navigate | | | | Truth of the Crash and a New Career Development |
| your career path; | | | | Plan. |
| 3. Creating a plan that involves developing their | | | | This will then take you to a full statement about the |
| technical, psychological and interpersonal qualities that | | | | transformations power of this five step program. We |
| are required in today’s world. This is the key step in | | | | believe that you will truly appreciate how much |
| personal and professional development plan as its | | | | peoples’ lives will be enhanced by learning and |
| focus are qualities hidden by the seven secrets of the | | | | applying the seven secrets, and the other four steps, in |
| modern workplace. These are the qualities that | | | | their personal and professional development, and many |
| successful people know about and use to achieve | | | | other areas of their lives. |
| success, but which they seldom reveal. These will be | | | | |