Career Strategy Workshop: 'Decoding the power of your occupational DNA'
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**NB - Usual price for this workshop, £75**
Adventures into the anatomy of purpose, passion and productivity. And why the time taken to realise the value hidden within your occupational DNA could be the best investment you make in your whole life; let alone your #career.
Whether worker or hirer, it is vital that you are prepared to answer the toughest question of all:
‘Tell me about yourself?’
(How you specify ‘fit’ between you and your work?)
Would you benefit from a 2-hour interactive workshop with one of the UK’s most inspirational #career coaches and talent management consultants? You are invited to attend an open group clinic where Duncan will help you explore the ‘anatomy of fit’ and discover your 'Whynapse©'. Where you explore the ingredients of ‘occupational DNA’, reveal those hidden ‘ghost skills’ and how to construct a more compelling talent story driving the key decisions of what work will instil the meaningfulness necessary to sustain you over the long haul of a 21st Century working-life. With the flipside of this equation for start-up founders being engineering the talent dynamics, more likely to turn your Business Plans into the success story you envision.
With ~90% of the population either in the wrong job completely or not engaged by their work at all, the statistical probability of getting the ‘fit’ right between worker and their work is challenging to say the least. Yet, with productivity so massively enhanced by getting purposeful, committed and joyful people into their best-fitting work, we ought to be investing more time in understanding ourselves and the work we thrive on delivering.
The workshop will include:
- Where you are in relation to maximising your career potential now.
- What is your 'Whynapse©'
- Overview of the Career Dovetail Formula™ and how with The Purpose Triangles© you can decode your occupational DNA and begin honing your career ‘fit-ness’.
- Introduction to the importance of answering the ‘Tell Me About Yourself?’ question.
- Overview of the importance of informational meetings and the power of networking.
- Time permitting, we will exploring next steps to keep your career momentum going!
Far ‘fitter’ than before you entered, you will leave the clinic less reactive and more proactive, better understanding the importance of self-awareness with a greatly enhanced answer to the toughest question of all.
Plan to: Know your A-Game. Know why you are here. Know where you’re going. Fuel your life with purpose!
[**Following this launch event on 31st January, our aim is to develop the clinic theme into a regular career transition, networking and outplacement club building towards improved ‘fit-ness’ on the Silicon Seaside.**]
Duncan Bolam © 1997-2019
Organiser Duncan Bolam Dip CG
Organiser of Career Strategy Workshop: 'Decoding the power of your occupational DNA'
TURNING CHAOS INTO A CALLING:
Ultimately, Duncan feels incredibly blessed to serve others working in an occupation that he is so passionate about. He is a strong believer in demonstrating gratitude and doing whatever he can to give something back in order to help others avoid some of the pitfalls he encountered in discovering his true vocation.
Following a charmed early childhood in rural Northumberland, son of GP and midwife, Duncan's life was uprooted to the concrete jungle of Washington Newtown in North East England in the mid-1970s. The Milton Keynes of the north. Resulting from a dramatic shift in educational tack from prep-school to comprehensive; coupled with a catalogue of family calamities, his long-standing ambition of becoming a Plastic Surgeon was dashed on the rocks of broken dreams.
In an act of self-preservation, he left home at 17 to join the Royal Marine Commandos. From which he was invalided-out with broken legs resulting from the rigorous training. Liking his twenties to running down a very steep, dry grassy slope, barely able to keep his feet beneath him, he amassed an *electic'* collection of 35 jobs in the first 32 years of his life!
Yet, leveraging his abilities in golf, basketball, rugby, athletics and swimming, achieved invaluable experience in sports, leisure and retail management with prestigious firms like First Leisure Corporation, Thistle Hotels and Lacoste. Along the way, he also gained qualifications with an array of sports coaching certifications, swimming teaching, professional golf and an HND in leisure management.
In the 23 years since discovering his calling at the age of 32, Author, Talent Management, Consultant and (click bold for hyperlinks) ‘Executive Purpose Coach’, Duncan Bolam has understudied and been mentored by world-famous Richard Nelson Bolles, (author of bestselling ‘What Color Is Your Parachute?’); he's helped design TV shows for the BBC; appeared on the USA’s leading career radio host’s, ‘Making a Living With Maggie Mistal’ on Martha Stewart Living Radio in New York City; studied a 2-year postgraduate diploma in career guidance to work as a Special Needs Careers Adviser in schools and colleges; consulted on large-scale redundancy programmes for firms like: Vodafone, Pfizer, Intel, Royal Mail and P&G written the ‘Kinesis: back to work’ programme for world-famous Haringey Action Group on Alcohol (aimed at helping people who are moving on from alcohol dependency); plus producing his ‘Every Person’s Path to Purpose’ book, published in 2013.
In short, Duncan is driven by overcoming adversity and the dynamics and diversity of helping people fulfil their potential via his unique insights in the ‘World of Work’ and proving the power of his Career Dovetail Formula™ and Purpose Triangles© precision guidance systems.
