ODR - Career Management

Career Management

When employees are managing their careers, targeting alignment between their current and future competency and business requirements, synergies are created between organizational capability and strategy that assure long term business continuity. Effective organizational performance depends on this alignment, assuring each team member's ability to flexibly meet the emerging needs of customers and organizational growth. ODR provides the tools, techniques and resources from which careers can be navigated and linkages to organizational strategy maintained. Staff learn to maximize person-job match, skills acquisition and sustain a continuous improvement focus.

ODR's career management approach includes the provision of content knowledge, development of appropriate skills, exploration of the organizational or contextual issues together with the strategies for negotiating agreement on required behaviours to achieve alignment. We work across the employee work life cycle to build engagement and mutually rewarding career structures and strategies.

Career Decision Making	Career Development
Retention and Succession Planning	Lifestyle Management
Career Transition and Outplacement

Career Decision Making

Participants develop personal strategies for identifying, assessing and actioning opportunities that maximize their strengths, motivations and potential future role prospects. This program can be used to empower employees to manage their contribution to the organization, to determine an individual's future direction during times of change and for employee retention, succession planning or transition.

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Career Development

A systematic process is taught whereby participants learn the key elements to navigate when proactively managing their career. Steps, tools and road maps are provided that empower participants towards building and aligning their competence to organizational requirements and to keep abreast of industry and professional directions. This program keeps talent optimistic, engaged and aligned with their organization's future plans.

In addition to the benefits to the individual and their fit with their organization's direction, this program when taught in a workshop also builds a team's direction . See our Career Development workshop outline.

Retention and Succession Planning

Retention research indicates that individuals tend to stay longer where they are experiencing personal and professional growth. In this program participants learn the process for developing and motivating key talent to apply themselves to critical organizational objectives. They learn to coach and support talent to ensure greater engagement and alignment of their staff careers with current and future organizational requirements based on mutual corporate and individual growth.

When conducted as a workshop, synergies in capability builds across and within organizational structures can be achieved. See our Career Coaching and Succession Planning for Supervisors and Managers workshop.

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Lifestyle Management

Sustaining the performance of senior executives and managers involves a holistic approach to navigating the sometimes competing aspects of their lifestyle. As both a retention strategy and a personal resilience tool, this program engages senior people in managing these demands to find a creative balance. It includes elements of stress and home life balance and can include spouses where considered appropriate.

Organizational, divisional and business unit synergies are identified and disconnects resolved when teams undertake the Executive Lifestyle Management workshop.

Career Transition and outplacement

When organizational realignments such as restructuring result in position reassignment or redundancies, utilizing career transition services can minimize costs by assisting people to find jobs in a shorter time frame. In addition, career support for employees during dynamic change is a smart public relations decision. The faster re-employment occurs, the lower the risk of litigation.

ODR offers a full range of services, including group and individual, one to four day career transition workshops for groups, as well as flexible individual career transition support programs. Our experience has seen many redundant staff find appropriate and often more aligned work quickly.

ODR can also assist in termination policy and program design as well as the development of strategies to ensure continuing employee performance levels are maintained, litigation risks are minimized, and governmental guidelines are followed.