Workshop Description
Working in Community to Plan and Develop Your Future: Forming a Career Development Accountability Team (CDAT)
This workshop explores a new way to plan and develop your career by working with a focused community to achieve measurable goals.
Questions that might bring you to this workshop:
- Is your career planning and development on a clear track?
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Does your career strategy integrate with family and other personal goals?
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Is your present direction enabling a meaningful life?
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Do you have people who support you in your career planning and development?
If you answered no to any of these questions, this workshop can help you focus thoughts and feelings, clarify priorities, set next steps, or develop your long-term direction.
You will take away the information and tools you need to immediately begin working on the next year of you career planning and development!
A new approach: the Career Development Accountability Team (CDAT)
When you need assistance there are resources: friends and family, colleagues, coaches, experts, professional practitioners, or spiritual guides. The CDAT is another resource: a community-based structure and method that helps you directly enrich and control your career planning and development. You initiate your CDAT with 2 or 3 individuals you select. A CDAT differs from mentoring or coaching. No one functions in a superior capacity – you engage your team and provide the focus through your goals.
You can initiate a CDAT when you are thinking about making a change, or find yourself in a forced transition where you must develop a plan. Perhaps you wish to explore and sort through options before consulting a coach or counselor. You may be seeking new ways to develop or enrich your network, or you may want to look into new forms of community practice.
You will learn how to create and drive your CDAT to achieve results you want.
Structure of the Day
Each table has a dedicated facilitator throughout the day. Attendees may change tables for some topic blocks so everyone has a chance to meet. Each topic block will begin with a brief presentation to set the frame for discussion. Presenters may ask one or more table groups to share findings or discussion experiences with the full group at the end of some topic blocks.
1. Introduction
2. Sharing to set the stage
3. Career + life: A long view
4. Self-audit tool
5. Personal information management
6. Community for personal growth
7. CDAT – structures and process
The day is designed to provide foundation tools in topic blocks 1-6. These set the stage to learn about the CDAT structures and process in topic block 7.
About the Material
This workshop was developed from a research project involving a group of women who wanted to evaluate their career situations and explore options together. They experienced personal breakthroughs as a result. Leader Melissa Jones, Ph.D. is an experienced manager and trainer dedicated to helping people strengthen their career planning and development with innovative tools and methods.
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