INSPIRED - Seminars * Workshops * Coaching for Expats in China

Reshaping Your Career with Sarah Cooper, Career Coach
Date & Time	Location
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 (9:15 to 16:00) ONLY 2 SPACES LEFT!	Landmark Business Center Landmark Office Tower 2, 2nd floor No.8 Dongsanhuan North Rd. Chaoyang 中国北京市朝阳区东三环北路8号亮马河大厦写字楼二座二层
Price 　　　1000 RMB	Maximum number of attendees 　　　12
Price Notes 　　　(includes lunch and handbook)

Event description: In this intensive one-day workshop you will assess your work interests and strengths, identify the new direction you wish your career to take and begin work on a strategy to get you there. The day includes a session on the “hidden job market” and how to access it.

Who should attend: Anyone with past work experience who is looking to make changes to their career path (whether minor adjustments or a more radical career transition). It does not matter whether or not you are currently working.

Content outline: In the morning session you identify your top career values, interests, transferable skills and work style, drawing on proven techniques used by leading international consultants such as Richard Knowdell and Richard Bolles. In the afternoon session you condense and prioritise the morning’s work, creating a one-sentence vision to describe your reshaped career. You then begin work on developing your strategy. The session includes tips on informational interviewing, networking and the hidden job market. Detailed content outline: 1. Your career values 2. Your career needs 3. What are you passionate about? 4. Addressing common passion killers 5. Your favourite skills 6. Your career strengths 7. Other criteria for career satisfaction 8. Your career paths options 9. Your career vision 10. How will you get there? 11. Tools: networking, research, hidden job market 12. Setting goals 13. Keeping motivated

Take away benefits: I. In depth understanding of your career values, interests, transferable skills and work style II. A clear picture of the new direction you would like your career to take and a broad strategy for getting there III. Signposting to a multitude of resources to help you further define and reach your career goals This is what attendees of our previous "Reshaping Your Career" workshop said: "Sarah Cooper is an authentic and courageous coach and workshop presenter! She is an outstanding example for me how to reshape one's career and life balance - great and really inspiring!"- Gerhild "Today's session made me focus on what I could and should me doing. It motivated me to get to work and drop the fears I had about my plans."

Methodology: A mix of individual, pair and group work. This workshop uses a lot of tried and tested career development techniques including “card sort” packs to facilitate prioritisation.

About our Speaker Sarah Cooper: Sarah works with people wanting to make changes to their career and broader lifestyle. Through her business, Cows from my window, she coaches, runs workshops and writes about leading the life you really want. No stranger to career exploration and change, Sarah originally worked as a solicitor in a commercial City of London law firm. She realised she wanted to make more of a difference to people’s lives, and took up a marketing role at the UK's largest cancer research charity. She worked with charities for 8 years, culminating in a senior role at the British Red Cross, where she scoped and implemented the first phase of a large-scale organisation wide change project. Two years ago she fulfilled a long-held dream of living overseas by moving to Beijing with her then three month daughter, Elsa. She enjoys chronicling their experiences and misadventures in her TBJ Kids column Me, Myself and Elsa. Sarah trained as a career and personal coach with CoachU, the world’s largest coaching training organisation. She is also an accredited practitioner for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Step 1 and 2 and the FIRO-B® psychometric instruments.