CJS Career Consulting designs and delivers workshops and webinars to work teams, employees (& their partners) and students to empower careers and work engagement. Trained in online facilitation, Colleen has been using Zoom and WebEx since 2017.
(F2F & Online) Workshops ready to go for your organisation:
Retire to the Life You Design
What will I do after I retire?
Are you thinking about the next chapter of your life and wondering how you can strategically navigate your way towards the fulfilling retirement of your dreams? This workshop provides practical tools for exploring your options and designing a meaningful future. It is based on the book Retire to the Life You Love which is included in the workshop to support you to create a robust, all-encompassing roadmap towards and for your retirement
- Explore the possibilities retirement can provide for you
- Reconnect with or generate a sense of purpose in your life as you look towards your future
- Increase your awareness of and confidence in your skills and abilities and where they can now lead you
- Understand what fits for you and why, at this point in your life journey
- Reconnect with and generate new dreams, ideas and directions for your retirement life
- Develop the tools and a strategy to support you to move in the direction you want for your retirement
For Whom: those preparing for their future or retiring imminently
Delivery Style: Interactive and hands-on. Zoom or F2F
Length: Can be adapted to your group. Ideal workshop length is from 2 – 4 hours up to a full hands-on day.
Participant Feedback:
The best things from this workshop were
– time to reflect and think
– gain new insights into who I am without a work role to define myself
– learning from each other
British School of the Netherlands, February 2022
Who You Are Matters
Confused about ‘what’s next’ for your career?
Feeling isolated and longing to share the journey?
Tired of endless conversations with yourself?
Known for millenia, there is power and magic in storytelling and being heard. In this safe and interactive facilitated board game from One Life Tools participants journey from
confusion to clarity
languishing to action
isolation to connection
Through Who You Are Matters participants
- Experience that they are not alone in the challenges of navigating career and life choices
- Create a clarification statement for direction and a next step
- Develop confidence to take the next step towards what they want
- Connect with others on the journey and commit with them to follow through
Work Search Skills Refresher
Provides participants with the foundations for improved work search results and successful interviews. Includes learning how to present their skills, qualities and experiences in an authentic and engaging manner. Does not focus on the information participants can easily find online.
For Whom: those who have not recently looked for work, tertiary education students, those re-entering the workforce, those who are not experiencing success with their CV and interviews
Delivery Style: Interactive and hands-on. Zoom or F2F
Length: Can be adapted to your group. Ideal workshop length is from 2 – 4 hours up to a full hands-on day.
Participant Feedback:
“The best thing for me today was tools and refreshed perspectives on the holistic view of my career.” British School of the Netherlands, November 2019
“Really engaging, useful, practical tips. Thank you so much.” British School of the Netherlands, October 2018
“Wow! Fabulous course. Definitely made me think about a different future career choice.” British School of the Netherlands, October 2018
“I liked how the workshop was informal and how you are open for questions.” University of Amsterdam, June 2017
Active Career Management
Empowers and equips employee career management. Participants are supported to make an active choice to either start to navigate their career in its next or new direction or to choose to stay where they are in an engaged way.
Through this workshop participants:
- Reconnect with or generate a sense of purpose in their career
- Increase awareness of and confidence in their skills and abilities
- Understand what fits for them and why at this point in their career journey
For Whom: those approaching or at a career crossroads; those who have had their career on autopilot in recent years
Delivery Style: Interactive and hands-on. Zoom or F2F
Length: Can be adapted to your group. Ideal workshop length is from 2 – 4 hours up to a full hands-on day.
Includes: pre-workshop workbook, handouts and facilitation
Participant Feedback:
“The best thing for me today was the group dynamic. It was so interesting to do these things with others, see the reactions of others and feel like I’m not so alone in this search for answers.” British School in the Netherlands, November 2019
“I’ve really appreciated the opportunity today, thank you! I liked the pace and style also!” British School in the Netherlands, November 2019
“The best thing for me today was the wonderful energy in the room & Colleen’s natural approach; felt ‘safe’ environment to explore own thinking.” British School in the Netherlands, October 2018
Navigating Your Professional Path
Participants develop a personal ‘GPS’ for successfully navigating today’s economy, meeting the challenges of changing careers and making careers portable in this interactive session. Equips participants for a world of work where careers develop in anything but a straight line.
For Whom: tertiary education students, international employees and their partners, those re-entering the workforce, those who have not recently looked for work.
Delivery Style: Interactive and discussion-based; Zoom or F2F
Length: Flexible depending on your group’s needs. Ideal length: 3 – 6 hours
Participant Feedback:
“Loved your approach – warm, personal, full of humour.”
“Good to meet other people and learn from their experience.”
“It triggered me to have a good look at where I’m now and where I want to go in the future.”
“A really great way to embark on self-discovery! Effective exercises, really packed with lots of good ideas. I will use this workbook for a long time to come!”
“Very knowledgable, guiding minded (without taking decisions in our behalf).”
Create Your Portable Career
In this 1 to 2 hour workshop or webinar tailored to your group, participants will:
- Reconnect with or generate a sense of purpose and direction in your career and explore how it can be portable
- Increase your awareness of and confidence in your skills and abilities and their portability
- Understand what fits for you and why, at this point in your career journey, taking into account the realities of your next posting, those in the future, as well as your repatriation
- Communicate in a way that creates opportunity
I attended one of Colleen’s Portable Career Webinar’s last week. It was fantastic. I have learnt so much and really dug deep into my why and values. Thank you, Colleen!
Teambuilding with Personality Dimensions
Individuals, workteams, and organisations are supported to appreciate their strengths, value their differences and communicate them effectively through the use of Personality Dimensions™ temperament indicator. This tool provides a language to explore and express differences and is presented in an interactive workshop that reinforces its value and applicability in the workplace. The basic 3 hour workshop can be expanded to a full day to explore an application of the tool more specifically.
For Whom: those experiencing change in their workplace and/or career, engaged in work search and interviews, those feeling stuck in their career and life
Delivery style: interactive and hands-on. Zoom or F2F
Length: Flexible based on your group’s needs. Ideal length: 3 hours
Participant Feedback International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY):
“Interesting day; thought provoking. Pleasant facilitation. Content pitched well for 1-day of training.”
“I will use what I have learned today to help first myself and to help people in my team at work, at home…”
“The colours personality is really easy to understand and implement. Very good teamwork workshop.”
Teambuilding - The Power of Improvisation
For Whom: those experiencing change in their workplace and/or career, engaged in work search and interviews, those feeling stuck in their career and life.
Delivery style: interactive and hands-on
Length: Flexible based on your group’s needs. Ideal length: 1 – 3 hours
Participant Feedback, Shell Outpost Team:
“Lovely voice. Clear instructions/ explanation and very friendly. Approachable.”
“Put team on ease; fun to be together; clear instructions!; encourages to bring situations from real life and work with them.”
“Great fun; good pace; everyone was involved; new ideas; new skills.”
“Overall the session was very informative and fun. There was a good balance of theoretical and practical aspects of the concepts introduced. I thoroughly enjoyed the session.”
