Workshops
Career workshops geared for organizations and individuals – executives and senior level professionals, exploring later life career options and Re-working Retirement.
WORKSHOP THEMES
Great for group learning dynamics, these highly practical encounters are designed for groups of 8 to 18 people.
Delivered on your site or in professional off-site locations in Toronto, Mississauga or Oakville, the cost per person of a one day workshop (including materials) is only $149 + GST per person. Sign up for all 3 and save $66.
Contact Mark Venning at Change Rangers if you want an enthusiastic and realistic point of view on the following topics and for dates of the next series.
Exploring Contracting & Consulting Realities
Are you trying to reinvent yourself? After years of working for one organization, many people look at options outside traditional full time work arrangements. You may be considering contracting, consulting or other versions of “independent work”. However there is a blur that occurs when exploring the reality of these options and a difference in terms of how you position and manage relationships in the workplace.
In this workshop you will gain a better sense of direction and will learn about:
- The continuum from “employee to entrepreneur”- as you move forward in a workplace, where the shifting demographics and business priorities are changing the way you need to position yourself to organizations.
- Realities facing people on the move to a more independent life of working on a contract basis, constantly challenged by change and choice.
- Practical information on contracts, legal, financial, marketing and fee setting issues.
- Ways you can “raise the value of your career currency” as you market yourself as a resource.
Participants who weren’t quite ready to handle a more fluid work life will at best have a reality check on whether they have taken all the steps they knew they had to do and be encouraged by others who are further along in their planning.
Participants who have seriously considered this option will have the information and tools to move with greater clarity and confidence in navigating uncharted territory.
Taking the Leap: Entrepreneurial Frontiers
As people leave organizations, making the decision to the take the leap into entrepreneurship can be an energizing yet stressful experience. This workshop will give participants an opportunity to share in a dialogue with others who are going through the same process, looking at entrepreneurship after spotting an opportunity in the marketplace.
In this workshop you will gain a better sense of direction and will learn about:
- Entrepreneurial assessments, defining the characteristics and support you need to bring into building a business.
- How to define your product or service offering with a value proposition.
- Anatomy of a Business Plan, how to construct business plan details and how to write a compelling plan to manage by design not crisis.
- Practical business tools, the specifics of starting yourself as a business and the resources you need to draw on.
Participants who weren’t ready to leap will at best have a reality check on whether they have all the right stuff and be encouraged by others who are further along in their planning.
Participants who were seriously ready will have the information and tools to move with greater clarity and confidence on preparing a business plan.
Boomers Reprise: Re-working Retirement
“Re-working Retirement” is the name of the game this decade. The word is out. It is not a retreat or withdrawal. A “reprise” on the other hand is a renewal of an action or movement! For people in “pre- retirement thinking”, who are challenged by change and choice, the pattern of life evolves beyond yesterday’s version of retirement. And we are living longer in the process.
In this workshop you will gain a better sense of direction and will learn about:
- Current global trends, attitudes and demographics impacting the change in approach to retirement and aging.
- Quick assessments and dialogue on your personal readiness for a 50+ ³career integration plan² a strategic plan for the integration of work, community action, personal desires, learning and relationship building for later life.
- How to refocus career planning for remaining years in an organization and explore future work options.
- Financial planning for immediate & long term projections.
Participants who haven’t given thought to a potential 20 or more years in retirement will at best have a reality check on whether they have taken all the steps they knew they had to do and be encouraged by others who are further along in their planning.
Participants who have seriously considered re-working their retirement will have the information and tools to move with greater clarity and confidence in living a reprised life.