Modules Career Counseling & Coaching
You and your individual needs will set the agenda for our sessions. The following list of issues can be selected according to your requirements:
Module I. Essentials & Orientation
- Potential analysis: identifying values and core competencies
- Career goal: specifying occupational fields and individual job profile
- Curriculum Vitae: editing and aligning it with job profile
- Strategy: scouring job market and search options; setting priorities
- Action plan: defining agenda, time schedule, and first steps
Module II. Job Search & Application Process
- Networking: expanding contact network strategically, online and offline; initiating informational interviews
- Self-marketing: presenting persuasive sales pitch; conversing with self-assurance; leveraging nonverbal communication
- Cover letter: analyzing job description; defining core arguments; ensuring focused and authentic wording
- Interview & Assessment Center: simulating interviews; identifying convincing arguments; reinforcing self-confidence
- Contract: specifying negotiation strategy for salary and other conditions; enhancing power of persuasion
- Monitoring: evaluating ongoing application process; fine-tuning; reviewing strategies and individual job profile
Module III. Freelancers & Entrepreneurs
- Potential analysis: defining competency profile, portfolio, expertise, market needs, and added value
- Business plan: outlining proposal — market analysis, marketing strategies, references, financial planning, timeline, fee structure
- Target groups: identifying relevant sectors, potential clients, and agencies; assessing possible partnerships
- Self-marketing: developing distinctive profile, sales pitch, website, and further marketing activities
- Networking: expanding existing network and clientele; contact building online and offline; identifying multipliers and joining professional networks
Module IV. Leadership & Personal Development
Leadership
- Enhancing and refining leadership competencies
- Self-reflection and reinforcing leadership role; developing personal style
- Personal leadership, self-management, and setting priorities
- Proactive career advancement; profiling and positioning on the job
- Employee management; developing and motivating staff; feedback
- Team building, team development, team leadership
- Accepting change; shaping and monitoring processes creatively
- Decision making; steering its implementations situation-related
Communication & Strategy
- Reconsidering and realigning communication strategies
- Honing foresightedness and strategic thinking
- Professional conversation techniques; extending negotiation scope
- Conflict management; clarifying factual and personal levels
- Strategically expanding contact network; maintaining it systematically
- Sensitive interaction with diversity and interculturalism; unconscious bias
- Raising awareness for nonverbal communication and refining these skills
Mindset
- Reinforcing self-confidence; enhancing self-assertion
- Gaining resilience; increasing flexibility and agility
- Dealing with disappointments and emerging stronger thereof
- Overcoming doubts and procrastination; resolving mental blockades
- Recognizing personal belief system; modifying dogmas and habits
- Increasing frustration tolerance; mastering impatience
Personal
- Work-life balance; reducing stress; setting limits
- Time and self-management; structuring daily and weekly workload
- Compatibility of family and career; setting priorities
- Defining life vision; setting mid- and long-term goals