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Work StrongWork Strong
A New Approach for a New Threat Facing Working Men & Women
© 2009 WEDDLE’s LLC All Rights Reserved
What’s the Threat?What’s the Threat?
If Someone is in Transition
If Someone is Employed
Their Career is Sick!
Why?Why?
Conventional Perceptions
If you do a good job, you will advance up your employer’s career ladder.
If you’re loyal to your employer, you will have job security.
If you put in lots of time on-the-job, you will get lots of support from your employer.
Accurate Perceptions
Today’s layoffs are not a reduction in force, but a reduction in structure.
The integrated global market is destroying certainty for employers and their employees.
Most organizations mean well, but can sometimes behave in a mean way.
Still a Land of OpportunityStill a Land of Opportunity
People with rare skillsPeople who are rare performers
New TechnologiesNew Products & Services
Innovators & Entrepreneurs
70%
65%CHANGE
What is a Career Athlete?What is a Career Athlete?
Athlete “A person possessing the natural or acquired traits that are necessary for physical fitness or sports, especially those performed in competitive contexts”
Career athlete “a person possessing the natural and nurtured talent necessary for career fitness, especially in a challenging work environment”
How Do You Become a Career Athlete?
1. Discover Your Talent1. Discover Your Talent
Some people just know … but most of us have to figure it out
It takes time and effort to uncover it– Assessment tools can help– Self discovery especially revealing
Most people use only half of their faculties to figure it out
2. Take Your Talent to Work2. Take Your Talent to Work
“Eventually I’d like to have a lot of passion for what I do.”
Source: Harvard Business Review
3. Work Strong3. Work Strong
Your Personal Career Fitness System
A philosophy of working– You deserve better in the working 1/3 of your life
– Reverses the perversion of “work-life balance”
A regimen of career enhancing activities
– Acknowledges that what gets measured, gets done
– Integrates 21st Century capabilities with proven 20th Century methods
A Healthy Career
Module 1
UnderstandingLearn the Principles
The Career Fitness Regimen
Module 2
PreparationTake the De-Stress
Test
Module 3
Warm UpBuild Plan
Module 4
TheCareer Fitness
Work-inExercises 1-7
Module 5
Cool DownMaintain Record
The FoundationThe FoundationParallel Paths of Self-Improvement
Profession, Craft, Trade Career Self-Management
What’s Involved?What’s Involved?
Exercise #1: Pump up your cardiovascular system
Exercise #2: Strengthen your circulatory system
Exercise #3: Develop all of your muscle groups
Exercise #4: Increase your flexibility and range of motion
Exercise #5: Work with winners
Exercise #6: Stretch your soul
Exercise #7: Pace yourself
The Career Fitness
Work-in
What’s Different?What’s Different?
Two Alternative FormatsTwo Alternative Formats
Career Fitness Workbook
www.CareerFitness.com
CFP CertificationCFP Certification Unique consulting/coaching approach with a rapidly
growing national brand Applicable to all levels of seniority and workplace
experience Expands your potential customer base beyond those in
trouble 12 week training program + ongoing support and
community For an application, contact Peter Weddle at 203.964.1888
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