Your career development isn’t just your manager or the organisation’s responsibility — it starts with you.
To ensure you continue to grow and develop in your role and beyond, you need to proactively initiate regular career-planning conversations with your manager. Career conversations focus your attention on longer-term personal development and goal setting to ensure you are ready to embrace future job opportunities when they become available. This workshop will provide you with the confidence and tools you need to establish regular career conversations with your Manager to ensure you take and maintain control of your own long-term development.
Program Outline
- Mindset – be the driver of your own career
- How to approach preparing for a career conversation
- The conversation structure
- Goal setting
- Following up and moving forward
Learning Outcomes
Participants in these workshops will gain essential skills, empowering them to take proactive control of their own career development. They will learn to effectively prepare for and engage in career conversations with their managers, setting clear, actionable goals and following up to achieve continuous progress. Ultimately, this workshop will provide them with practical tools and strategies to support lifelong learning, personal development, and sustained motivation.
Who should attend
This workshop is suitable for professionals at all levels who are keen to take charge of their career development and invest in their personal growth. Whether you are an emerging leader, a mid-career professional seeking advancement, or a senior executive aiming to inspire your team, these programs will provide valuable insights and actionable strategies to enhance both personal and organisational growth.
Program Experience
The Workshop will be delivered online using Microsoft Teams. It will involve a combination of structured learning with activities and role plays along with open discussion encouraging peer to peer learning and participation. Participants will be given a soft copy workbook / workshop notes ahead of each session commencing.
Length - 3.5 hours inclusive of a 15-minute break.
Facilitators
Michael Floyd
Michael Floyd is a dynamic and visionary leader with over 25 years of experience in leadership and talent management consulting. After a highly successful career leading a number of consumer goods business in Australia, Michael transitioned to management consulting with a focus on people and performance.
As the Founder and Managing Director of Carrera Consulting, Michael has transformed the recruitment industry by shifting the focus from transactional interactions to true talent consultancy. Over the last 10 years he has driven further development of the business, evolving from a boutique recruitment consultancy to a broader HR consulting firm offering talent management solutions that deliver tangible outcomes to challenges in talent attraction, engagement and development.
Michael works with clients to assess structure and culture needs and develop strategies and programs to address organisational design, leadership development, employee engagement and succession planning, ensuring clients have the structure and people they need to meet strategic objectives.
Michael recently founded Obsidian Leaders, a program dedicated to addressing the needs of C-level executives in building the competencies required for success in today’s dynamic business environment while readying themselves for potential future business leadership roles.
Nicola Floyd
Nicola Floyd is the Director of Carrera Consulting's Talent Management Consulting Division. She has more than 15 years’ experience in talent management and recruitment consulting. Since joining Carrera in 2010, Nicola has been instrumental in building and leading the talent management consulting division which focuses on supporting clients throughout the entire talent lifecycle.
Nicola's role involves working closely with clients to understand their unique needs and challenges and providing tailored solutions that drive performance and engagement. Nicola is known for her ability to connect business strategy with talent management practices, helping organisations build high-performing teams and achieve their strategic goals.
Nicola is driven by helping businesses build successful teams – where employees are engaged, valued and have the opportunity to reach their full potential while businesses achieve strategic and financial goals. She is an advocate of life-long learning and personal
Carrera is an AMI Partner. We are happy to offer the course to our members with an exclusive discount.
