New Directions  

- How to do what you want to do. 

I never wanted to do this job in the first place! I... I wanted to be... A LUMBERJACK!  - Leaping from tree to tree! As they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia! With my best girl by my side! The Larch! The Pine! The Giant Redwood tree! The Sequoia! The Little Whopping Rule Tree! We'd sing! Sing! Sing! -  Oh, I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day.....

The Lumberjack Song from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" .

Your need

  • You have a new goal and would like help with taking the first steps. 

  • Change is being imposed on you and you would like some help working through your response 

Background

Many people reach a point in their life where they have a desire to do something new. This might be as simple as getting promoted, downshifting or changing jobs. Or it might be more of the "place in the sun" type change where a more radical and risky move is desired. This type of change can be seen when people face redundancy, unexpected health changes, or big dream ideas. However, such a change can often seem full of risk and danger with only the vague chance of reward. However, so often people are ill-prepared to manage such a drastic change and as a result they either give up and decide to stick with what they've got - or jump feet first into the change with a vague hope that things will be ok in the end.

This course is designed to help people manage this point in their life where a new direction is needed or wanted - but they don't have a clear understanding or strategy of how to manage the change. This choice point may be a small one or it might be of the life changing variety. Whatever it looks like - it is a sense that the time is due for something different - where a new direction is wanted or needed. 

This 2 day course course is based upon three leading books that each deal with a key aspect of making a new life change. The are:

  • Lead Yourself - How to be confident that the choices being made are robust and not knee jerk; communicate a clear picture of the change to be made; and understand what limiting beliefs might cause the change to fail in the long run.  

  • Know your value - How to understand the talent you currently have; the talent needed to operate in the new world and how to acquire this capability.

  • Personal Networking - How to map the people who will impact on the success of your outcome and enlist their support and help in its delivery 

These three books are used on the course to underpin the framework - a simple structure that helps people to prepare for the new direction.

Delegate Feedback

  • Enables you to feel like an individual that can decide and manage your own choices in all aspects of your life

  • Powerful and worthwhile'

  • Facing your demons and making conscious choices to instil a personal change"

  • Very challenging and insightful - a hell of a roller coaster of emotions and needs to be

  • Brilliant! Although I was emotionally drained, mentally challenged and physically exhausted by the end of it, it was well worth the effort. I'd definitely recommend the course.

  • A Voyage of Discovery

  • To be embarked upon with an open mind and a real problem/issue to solve one personal to you.

  • Intense, exhilarating, terrifying, emotional, uplifting and purposeful - it's a hell of a ride !

Who should participate

  • People who have a dream, what to make the first move but don't know how to take the first step

  • People who need to make the final choice about taking redundancy and what the chance to think their options through 

  • People who want to plan the next stage of their life now that they have taken redundancy 

  • People who want to prepare themselves for the next career move

Source Material

 

The course is based upon ideas contained in three interrelated books, Lead Yourself, Know your value and Personal Networking - written by Mick Cope and published by the Financial Times.

 

   

Course Content

   
Choosing the choice  - how to ensure that the choice is robust 
  • What is my current direction ?
  • What is the direction I wish to go in?
  • What forces will prevent me from making the change or pull me back to the old habits once taken? 

Paint the picture - how to understand what is happening and what the perfect picture looks like   

  • How did I get to this choice point?

  • How would I describe the current picture to others?

  • How would I describe the perfect picture - what I hope to achieve?

               

Rubber Band  - What will stop me achieving the outcome

  • What doubts (implicit or explicit) do I have about the change?

  • What delusion do I have? 

  • What will others say about my change and how will that influence my choice? 

Talent Wheel - How to get the talent you need to create value in your chosen market 

  • What is my current talent?

  • What talent is needed to create value in my chosen market? 

  • How do I bridge the gap? 

 

Chart the connections - How to help others to help you

  • What does my network look like?

  • Who needs to be included in my network? 

  • How can I help them to help me? 

 

The Perfect Pitch - Taking yourself to market 

  • Where I am going (and what might prevent me)

  • What talents I have (and what I need)

  • Who will help me (and why they should)

 

 

 

(c) Mick Cope