Work StrongWork Strong

A New Approach for a New Threat Facing Working Men & Women

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What’s the Threat?What’s the Threat?

If Someone is in Transition

If Someone is Employed

Their Career is Sick!

Why?Why?

Conventional Perceptions

If you do a good job, you will advance up your employer’s career ladder.

If you’re loyal to your employer, you will have job security.

If you put in lots of time on-the-job, you will get lots of support from your employer.

Accurate Perceptions

Today’s layoffs are not a reduction in force, but a reduction in structure.

The integrated global market is destroying certainty for employers and their employees.

Most organizations mean well, but can sometimes behave in a mean way.

Still a Land of OpportunityStill a Land of Opportunity

People with rare skillsPeople who are rare performers

New TechnologiesNew Products & Services

Innovators & Entrepreneurs

70%

65%CHANGE

What is a Career Athlete?What is a Career Athlete?

Athlete “A person possessing the natural or acquired traits that are necessary for physical fitness or sports, especially those performed in competitive contexts”

Career athlete “a person possessing the natural and nurtured talent necessary for career fitness, especially in a challenging work environment”

How Do You Become a Career Athlete?

1. Discover Your Talent1. Discover Your Talent

Some people just know … but most of us have to figure it out

It takes time and effort to uncover it– Assessment tools can help– Self discovery especially revealing

Most people use only half of their faculties to figure it out

2. Take Your Talent to Work2. Take Your Talent to Work

“Eventually I’d like to have a lot of passion for what I do.”

Source: Harvard Business Review

3. Work Strong3. Work Strong

Your Personal Career Fitness System

A philosophy of working– You deserve better in the working 1/3 of your life

– Reverses the perversion of “work-life balance”

A regimen of career enhancing activities

– Acknowledges that what gets measured, gets done

– Integrates 21st Century capabilities with proven 20th Century methods

A Healthy Career

Module 1

UnderstandingLearn the Principles

The Career Fitness Regimen

Module 2

PreparationTake the De-Stress

Test

Module 3

Warm UpBuild Plan

Module 4

TheCareer Fitness

Work-inExercises 1-7

Module 5

Cool DownMaintain Record

The FoundationThe FoundationParallel Paths of Self-Improvement

Profession, Craft, Trade Career Self-Management

What’s Involved?What’s Involved?

Exercise #1: Pump up your cardiovascular system

Exercise #2: Strengthen your circulatory system

Exercise #3: Develop all of your muscle groups

Exercise #4: Increase your flexibility and range of motion

Exercise #5: Work with winners

Exercise #6: Stretch your soul

Exercise #7: Pace yourself

The Career Fitness

Work-in

What’s Different?What’s Different?

Two Alternative FormatsTwo Alternative Formats

Career Fitness Workbook

www.CareerFitness.com

CFP CertificationCFP Certification Unique consulting/coaching approach with a rapidly

growing national brand Applicable to all levels of seniority and workplace

experience Expands your potential customer base beyond those in

trouble 12 week training program + ongoing support and

community For an application, contact Peter Weddle at 203.964.1888

or peter@weddles.com

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