Managing Your Career

Do you have a career path? Do you know exactly what you want in terms of your career? Do you know what you’ll be best suited to?

All of these questions need answering if you want a happy and fruitful career. You spend a great proportion of your life at work so it pays to choose and manage your career wisely!

In this textbook you will work through a series of exercises and content so that you will be able to plan and map out a rewarding career for yourself.

Sean McPheat, the Founder and Managing Director of management development specialists, MTD Training is the author of this publication. Sean has been featured on CNN, BBC, ITV, on numerous radio stations and has contributed to many newspapers. He’s been featured in over 250 different publications as a thought leader within the management development and training industry.

MTD has been working with a wide variety of clients (both large and small) in the UK and internationally for several years.

MTD specialise in providing:

• In-house, tailor made management training courses (1-5 days duration)

• Open courses (Delivered throughout the UK at various locations)

• Management & leadership development programmes (From 5 days to 2 years)

• Corporate and executive coaching (With senior or middle managers)

MTD provide a wide range of management training courses and programmes that enable new and experienced managers to maximise their potential by gaining or refining their management and leadership skills.

Our team of highly skilled and experienced trainers and consultants have all had distinguished careers in senior management roles and bring with them a wealth of practical experience to each course. At MTD Training we will design and deliver a solution that suits your specific needs addressing the issues and requirements from your training brief that best fits your culture, learning style and ways of working.

Our programmes are delivered when and where you need them! We believe that training should be fun, highly interactive and provide “real world” practical techniques and methods that you can use back in the office – and that’s exactly what we provide.

1. Introduction
   1. Your Career Is in Your Control
   2. Your Interests and Passions
   3. Identifying Our Strengths and Weaknesses
   4. Enhancing Your Skills
   5. Job-Search Skills
2. Determining Your Interests and Passions
   1. Introduction
   2. Exercise One
   3. Exercise Two
3. Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses
   1. Introduction
   2. Identifying What a Job Requires
   3. Identifying General Strengths and Weaknesses
   4. Getting Feedback from Others
4. Communication Skills
   1. The Importance of Communication
   2. What Is Communication?
   3. What Are Communication Skills?
   4. The Communication Process
   5. Elements of Communication
   6. Face to Face Communication
   7. Listening Skills
5. Personal Confidence
   1. Introduction
   2. Self-Confidence
   3. Self-Esteem
   4. Self-Efficacy
6. Motivation
   1. Introduction
   2. Addressing Lack of Confidence
   3. Addressing Lack of Focus
   4. Addressing Lack of Direction
   5. Building Self-Discipline
   6. Goal Setting
7. Emotional Intelligence (EI)
   1. Introduction
   2. Mixed Model of EI
8. Job-Seeking Skills
   1. Introduction
   2. Your Resume
   3. Networking
   4. Interview Skills
9. References