Helping Your Clients with Their Mid-Life Career Reinvention

Introduction

Do you want to help your clients in their mid-life (45-60) to reinvent themselves when they are facing redundancy, feeling lost and unclear how to make themselves relevant again in the world of work? To regain their joie de vivre when feeling burnt out, dissatisfied and unfulfilled in their work? Then join us for this hands-on and interactive workshop, where we will learn how to help your clients to manage their mid-life career reinvention.

You will learn how to:
• Understand what we mean by mid-life career reinvention
• Make sense of the different challenges faced by clients at this time in their career
• Explore how we can help our clients to be successful in their reinvention
• Understand the activities and approaches that are useful for us to draw upon when working with clients in this area.

Recent feedback from clients who have worked with Cathy: “Inspirational stuff, really enjoyable.” “Very good, just at the right time.” “You have changed my life!” The masterclass presenter is Dr Cathy Brown. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who runs her own organisational development consultancy.

During mid-life it is common to face uncertainties in work and life, and to feel personally challenged. Also, such challenges can be individual, complex and difficult to make sense of. Some are questioning ‘What do I want?’, whilst others may be asking ‘Have I done enough?’ or ‘Who am I?’ Many will be wondering how they can deal with these experiences and find a way forward. Now is a perfect time to work with our clients to help them to reinvent themselves so that they feel inspired and motivated to take forward this next career chapter.

Learning outcomes

You will learn how to:

• Make sense of mid-life career reinvention, what it means and why it is so relevant now
• Understand the challenges and complexities faced by clients at this time
• Help your mid-life clients to be successful during this career reinvention
• Help your clients to reinvent themselves at this time by exploring what sorts of activities may be useful to undertake and how best to approach the career coaching

Some client scenarios where Mid-Life Career Reinvention can be applied:

Clients who are in their mid-life (45-60):

• Facing redundancy, feeling lost and unclear how to make themselves relevant again in the world of work
• wanting something different and unsure about their next career and life step
• in work and feeling dis-satisfied and unfulfilled, thinking ‘Is this it?’
• burnt out and questioning ‘How can I sustain work for the years ahead?’

 

Agenda for the Expert Training

Setting the scene
-Outcomes, deliverables, personal check-in

Understanding mid-life career reinvention
-Short input session to gain a common definition and to explore why this is so relevant now for us as career practitioners

Exploring why it is a challenging time
-Short small group activity to clarify the inherent challenges at this time and to share with the group
-Short input session to add to and confirm these challenges

How to be successful at mid-life career reinvention?
-Short individual reflection and share session to clarify how to be successful when reinventing our career at mid-life
-Short input session to add additional ideas and confirm the critical success factors for mid-life career reinvention

Exploring the implications for career practitioners
-Input session to walk through the implications for career practitioners when working with clients to help them with their mid-life career reinvention
-Small group activity to explore what sorts of activities would be useful to do and also how we should handle such client work
-Group discussion to hear the best ideas from each small group

Walking through the top tips for career practitioners
-Sharing practical tips for career practitioners when working with clients to help them with their mid-life career reinvention

Ends 2 hours later- Final Q&A ·
Final group plenary discussion to answer any remaining questions

We will have a break mid-way.

Presenter biography

The expert trainer presenter is Dr Cathy Brown. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who runs her own organisational development consultancy (www.evolve.eu.com) where she works with individuals, teams and businesses to manage transitions and change. Over the past 16 years, she has helped hundreds of clients to undertake career transitions and change, and to realise their own career ambitions. Within her areas of expertise, she writes books (under the brand Testing the Water®), articles, speaks at conferences and is a guest lecturer on Masters courses at several universities. More latterly, she has been awarded a PhD within field of career mobility.

 

Joining information and fee

Please book and pay online: Members - £50 + VAT; Non-members - £120 + VAT

Delegates will receive:

• Full set of slides
• List of delegates
• Course evaluation form
• CDI attendance certificate