brand new Phone Class led by Talane Miedaner                                     

Starting April, 2010

A series of 9 calls for 90 minutes each. Approximately 60 minutes for presentation by Talane Miedaner followed by 30 minutes for coaching and Q & A.

Brand New Phone Class Series led by Talane Miedaner, author of the upcoming book being released this spring by McGraw-Hill, Coach Yourself to a New Career: 7 Steps for Reinventing Your Professional Life.

We'll cover all seven steps of Talane's brand new program designed to help you identify and find the career of your dreams. Using state-of-the art online computerized assessments to clearly identify your natural talents, hard-wired abilities, and your personal style, Talane will explain how to fully understand your own unique reports (which you may keep completely confidential) on the calls. You'll join others in the same position and learn what has and hasn't worked for them as well as receive coaching from the master coach, Talane Miedaner.

Week 1: Introduction to the Program, How to Take the Assessments; The Clean Sweep Program; Increasing Your Personal Magnetism

Week 2: Understanding your Career Planning Insights Report

Week 3: Understanding Your Workplace Motivators Report

Week 4: Understanding Your Highlands Program Part 1

Week 5: Understanding Your Highlands Program Part 2

Week 6: Identifying Your Personal Requirements

Week 7: Identifying Your Core Values

Week 8: Defining the Ideal Career and Interviewing Tips and Strategies that Work

Week 9: Making the Transition

Also Included in the cost of the program:

The Highlands Abilities Battery (an online computerized assessment resulting in a 20 plus page personalized report describing your hard-wired abilities)

The Career Planning Insights Report (a computerized assessments to identify your personal style--how you do things)

The Workplace Motivators Report (a computerized assessment designed to identify your motivating values--why you do things)

All calls will be recorded so that if you have to miss a class, you can make it up later. All participants will receive the audio link to the recordings so that you can listen to the class again. All participants will receive a copy of their own unique reports: The Highlands Abilities Batter, The Career Planning Insights Report; and The Workplace Motivators Report. You'll want to keep these for the future since the content of these programs will probably be applicable to you for the rest of your life.

Who should take this class?

Any one who feels stuck or frustrated in their work. Anyone who has thought of starting their own business. Anyone who has recently graduated and wants to select the best possible career. Anyone who is ready for a change and although you might have once liked your work, you now want to try something different. Anyone who feels they haven't tapped into their full potential. Anyone who is looking for the perfect post-retirement career. Anyone who was retired, but lost all their money in the stock crash and now needs to go back to work. Anyone who just doesn't know what they want to do when they grow up, regardless of whether you are 22 or 62!

Dates and time:

All classes will be held at 8am eastern time/1pm GMT on starting on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 and running for nine non-consecutive weeks. 

April 20, April 27, May 4, May 11, May 25, June 1, June 8, June 15 and June 22. Each class is 90 minutes. The first 60 minutes will be a presentation by Talane Miedaner followed by 30 minutes for questions and coaching.

Investment: $997.00 (class size is limited to a maximum of 16 people so you'll have time to ask your own questions and get individual attention on each call.

What is The Highlands Program and how does it help me find the right career?

Career development and the Highlands Ability Battery

Your career coach should utilize the best tools available to help you acquire the self-knowledge, resources and skills to discover and succeed at your life and career. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 executive, an entrepreneur, a manager or a professional, the Highlands Abilities Assessment help you to understand, build and utilize the Eight Critical Steps to Discovering What You Do Best. 

Choosing a career path and the right tool for career development is a critical process that requires a Personal Vision. The effectiveness of your decision-making at critical turning points in your life will depend on the information and knowledge available to you. Knowledge is power. The more knowledge you have about yourself, the more effective your life and career decisions will be. The trick is to figure out what information you lack or need and then gather and analyze that information. Whether you are forming a career plan, reviewing your career options, or deciding how to respond to a new job offer, the Eight Critical Steps identified by Highlands will help you to make the right decisions for your career development. Before you begin exploring a career change and try to identify a job or profession which will prove satisfying, you must first develop a true understanding of yourself – your innate abilities, your skills, your interests, your values, your goals, your personal style and characteristics, your family background and history, and where you are in your career development cycle.

Eight Critical Steps to Career Development:

Assessing your abilities. The Highlands Ability Battery is the most effective assessment of innate or “hard-wired” abilities available today. Online since June 2004, the Battery measures an individual's abilities by requiring him to perform worksamples that test the speed at which he can perform an assigned task. By requiring the individual to perform a timed worksample, we learn more about his ability to perform that task than by any other means. One worksample was designed to measure a person's powers of observation. In all, the Highlands Ability Battery asks an individual to perform nineteen different worksamples. The results enable the individual to plot his or her career development.

Analyzing your skills. Skills are developed and learned; Abilities are congenital. Skills are those function-driven tasks an individual has learned to do well. They develop over time through study, education, application and practice. To the extent an individual takes advantage of her innate abilities in developing a skill, the skill will be acquired more quickly, easily and fully and will facilitate career development.

Understanding Your Personal Style. Every individual has developed speech patterns, body language, social devices, and personality traits unique to her. Because other individuals respond either more or less favorably to a person's personal style, it's important to identify its ingredients in each individual to enable that individual to relate better to other people.

Knowing Your Interests. Over the years, a person develops interests unique to her. When these are identified and recognized, the individual can be helped to combine these with her abilities to achieve a fuller and more integrated use of both in her career development.

Reliving Your Family History. An individual’s background and family shape her life and her work ethic. We encourage each individual to examine and to understand how her family's history and her intra-family relationships have influenced her.

Relating to Your Values. An individual’s values (i.e., her scales for judging good and evil, wise and foolish, moral and immoral) define her reaction to people and events around her. When a sense of her values is combined with knowledge of the other factors in the whole person, the individual is helped to bring her plans and choices into sharper focus and to enhance her career development.

Reaching Your Goals. Every person has goals which control and drive her activities, both every day and over the foreseeable future. The individual may wish to modify these goals in light of her innate abilities. The results of one worksample may show, for example, that she may be happiest pursuing short-term objectives instead of long-term goals.

Your Career Development Cycle. Each individual confronts critical stages or transitions (Turning Points) in his or her life. Some of these are work- or career-related. These career issues are sometimes self-created and sometimes caused by external forces (e.g., company downsizing). By defining and facing the issues confronting you at the moment, we are able to help you through these transitions and empower you to make better career development decisions.

What are The Career Planning Insights Report and Workplace Motivators Reports?

I use both of these online computerized reports with my coaching clients because they are statistically very accurate and they take only ten minutes each to complete online. You'll instantly receive a twenty-four-page report that will tell you what your personal style is and your top hidden motivating values--the ones that inform every decision that you make, whether you are aware of them or not. Results are remarkably accurate, but everyone benefits from a debrief session with a qualified coach to fully interpret the results and apply them in life. This is very useful information for anyone making a career change or starting a business. This reports are also great tools for team building and can help managers quickly understand how to leverage a team's strengths to get the highest productivity and morale. I've even used these assessments in relationship coaching to help couples and partners better understand and appreciate each other.

If you are interested in taking these assessments online or if you are a manager and would like to use these assessments with your staff, please contact info@lifecoach.com for more information.

Let us know if you are interested in taking this class this autumn. Email faye@lifecoach.com to be put on the waiting list.