Corporate Services

	Outplacement		Career Development/Retention
	Executive and Management Coaching		Manager as Career Coach
	Team Building		Toxic Coworkers and Bosses

Outplacement

	Services for Individuals
	Services Index

Career Insights offers both in-person work per week and support by phone and email - with a Master Counselor, in the offices of Career Insights (Walnut Creek and San Francisco) with availability of distance services for client convenience.
Career Insights outplacement counselors are experienced in assisting human resources personnel and managers with the initial termination process and will come to the company facility to provide support when an employee is dismissed. We are experienced in crisis intervention and can provide intensive individual counseling should an individual need this in dealing with a termination. We will work with outplaced individuals to ensure that they have as smooth a transition as possible through a typically very turbulent time.

We can provide you with premier outplacement services including:

	On-site support on day of termination
	Issues of Moving On
	Personal Assessment – Skills, Values, Interests, Personality Type
	Research Techniques (corporations, jobs/titles, related occupations, openings, effective Internet methods)
	Career Decision Making – use of Decision Model, brainstorming, evaluation of initial alternatives
	Long-term and short-term goal setting
	Marketing Plan
	Interview Skills, video practice/feedback
	Resume and other marketing materials (letters of introduction, cover letters, etc.)
	Support during the job search/work development
	Consulting options, business start-up (business planning, research, Internet tools)
	Coaching/Support through process of locating, negotiating, landing a job
	Coaching/Support through process of settling into new job

Program fee would include all travel costs, office costs, all fees for services, all costs of assessment instruments, all documentation provided, all phone and email assistance.  Fees include services to help the client in the initial adjustment process in the new job/work situation.  Service needs tend to require very intense support to the individual, documentation of each of the areas of process, availability by phone or email on a same day/return call service level.
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Executive and Management Coaching
Many individuals come into positions of influence and leadership because of their technical contribution and knowledge, but need some help in their interpersonal, organizational, or leadership skills.  Career Insights provides consulting to members of organizations to enhance relationship and coping skills.  The individual works with a qualified career consultant experienced in leadership development.  The career counselors at Career Insights will coach your executives, managers, and key contributors dealing with issues related to achieving success, performance, leadership development, and managing both up and down the organization. We have the unique combination of business, corporate, and management experience along with knowledge and expertise in performance issues to help your senior level employees develop maximum effectiveness.

The individual works with a qualified career consultant experienced in leadership development to:

	conduct self-assessment to help in understanding of strengths and weaker areas
	develop plans to ameliorate situations in which help is necessary (new strategies, techniques)
	identify stressful aspects of the job and responsibilities, and demonstrate new approaches
	offer high-impact ideas for practice and feedback
	set objectives for behavioral change to meet needs of individual
	discuss and provide feedback about implementation of behavioral change
	ongoing support for behavioral change management (potential periodic review of objectives for change)

The results to be expected from job coaching techniques provided by Career Insights include:

	enhanced performance and results of the coached individual in areas of past weakness
	enhanced self-knowledge and confidence of the individual
	enhanced coping skills and new strategies in situations that previously cause inappropriate  behavior
	more genuine behavior and enhancement of relationships and trust in the organization
	less stress and enhanced potential for enduring relationship in the organization
	enhanced overall well-being and health of the individual

      more success
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Team Building
Career Insights offers programs to enhance teamwork through recognition of personal work styles and understanding of how others on the team like to work. The result is more understanding by all of the gifts of each and the power of the combination.  We incorporate both appropriate instruments and our experience as counselors to help your team appreciate inherent differences among team members; identify team strengths and weaker areas; and create a more dynamic and productive team environment.
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Career Development/Retention
Employees who have opportunities for professional growth are more likely to stay with their company and tend to be more productive in their work. As career professionals, we can help you retain your best employees by helping them create a career development plan, which may include: enhancing their current job; finding a better fit within your company; developing a strategy for advancement. We can design a program for individual employees or conduct a workshop for either a team or multi-disciplinary group.
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Manager as Career Coach
One of the more difficult responsibilities of a good manager is to provide an effective professional development plan for employees. Career counselors at Career Insights can train and coach managers to use simple assessment tools, ask questions, and observe their employees to acquire the necessary information to help them design an effective development plan.
Beyond career coaching, Career Insights consultants can help managers to employ very helpful strategies that can enrich and engender very positive relationship with their staff.  We can help you to understand unsuccessful interactions and plan for difficult situations to insure a successful result.  Our counselors can provide you with an outside view, an objective frame of reference, and very effective techniques based on understanding of the needs of individuals and comparative experience in a great many organizational settings.
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Toxic Coworkers and Bosses
In trying to maintain bottom line efficiency, managers are often beset with difficult, angry, unproductive coworkers. Employees, managers, directors and executives may want personal assistance in developing new ways to handle demanding individuals. We have experience in providing advice and coaching in this, sometimes uncomfortable, arena.  We will work with you to understand the underlying causes of difficulties, and to develop new strategies for dealing with situations relating to troublesome relationships.
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