presents. retooling and refueling workforce connection college of central florida donnah ross and...
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Presents
Retoolingand
Refueling
Workforce Connection
College of Central Florida
Donnah Ross and Bryan Sykes
College of Central Florida
Presented by:
•Training and support services for displaced workers.•A collaboration between WWDA
Workforce Connection and the College of Central Florida.
Professionals–2004Veterans–2006Extended displaced workers–
2011•Served more than 2,500 professionals
and 175 veterans YTD.
Refueling and Retooling
Purpose
To address issues that will improve finding a career,
direction and gainful
employment.
Program Objectives
•Develop coping skills to weather the layoff.•Gain insight into getting finances and
insurance in order to make it through the transition.•Discover personal knowledge, skills
and abilities.•Re-evaluate career goals and create a
personal plan.•To be successful in today’s
workplace.•Create an effective resume and cover
letter.•Practice networking and interviewing
techniques.
Program Design
•Participants referred from One-Stop.•Conducted same time/days each
month at College of Central Florida.•Training does not duplicate or replace
services provided by One-Stop.
Factors for Success
•Developed by a team of training specialists, One-Stop/veteran association staff, area psychologists and CF training director.•Instructors are outstanding in their
field and very caring people.•Collaboration creates strength.•Adjusted each year to meet needs of
community.•Part-time coordinator who is
committed and connected.
Benefits of Collaboration
•Provides a holistic approach.•Does not duplicate other community
resources.•Provides psychological and cognitive
training.•Supports neutral services.•Provides expert trainers/change agents.•Promotes communication between
agencies.
Program Content for Professionals
•Career assessment/transferable skills.•You in the process.•Who am I and how do I tell you about
my talents?•Resume workshop.•How do I get out of the prison of
unemployment?•Developing your compass.•Interviewing skills.•Now, what do I do next?•Tying it all together.
Program Content for Veterans
•Career assessment/transferable skills.•Temperament at work.•Employment and action planning.•Review of veteran benefits.•Resume workshop.•Interviewing skills and practice.•Homecoming hassles and civil
solutions.•Career coaching.
Career Coaching
•One-on-one motivational coaching and advisement.•Career coaches are retirees who have
had successful employment and have been in active duty in the armed forces. •Role of a career coach: motivator,
advisor, coach, career counselor, positive role model, advocate, self-esteem builder, listener and referral person for additional resources.
Program Content for Extended Displaced Workers
•You in the process.•First things first.•Weathering the financial storm.•Career launch services.•Career pathways.•If your life were a business, would you
invest in it?•Community Resources Fair.
•Many thank yous and personal testimonials.•Employment stats better than
average.•Support along the way.•R & R veterans recognized nationally
in 2010 in Washington, D.C., at the Department of Labor.
Success Stories
•Create a clear vision of the desired outcomes.•Decide what will it take achieve it.•Take focused, intelligent, and
effective action.•Measure progress to evaluate what’s
working.
Action Planning Process
You are here
•Why? – How people perform correlates to how situations occur to them.•How? – How a situation occurs arises
in language.•What? – Future-based language
transforms how situations occur to people.
Creating A Clear Vision
Positioning criterion for success
•Which strategies will position individuals for success?•How can mastery principles improve
performance?•What support systems will anchor
momentum?
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Applying what I know
•How people organize what they do.•How people think about what they do.•How people do what they do.
Taking Massive Action
Sustaining future momentum
•How a personal audit sustains future momentum.
•How the practice of “feed forward” bridges the gap to achieve desired outcomes.•How to utilize recovery strategies to
sustain progress.
What’s Working?
Thank youDonnah Ross and Bryan
SykesCollege of Central Florida