Career Coaching begins from the moment the candidate is hired—helping to set employees up for success along their entire career with the organization. Rather than just throwing new employees to the wolves and hoping they’ll find their way, Thompson Technologies works with organizations to produce a strategic on-boarding process. Our Career Coaching Services ensure both managers and employees are on the same page—establishing metrics and success measures to utilize for evaluations.
Additionally, Thompson Technologies Career Coaching Services provides the tools and support needed to assist employees interested in expanding their experience within the organization. We focus on helping employees understand their values and aspirations and how those elements affect their behavior, influencing how they are perceived by their peers and bosses as they move up the corporate ladder. Our Career Coaching Services prepare individuals and the company for the transitional period that pursues when employees change roles.
For individuals moving into leadership roles, we specifically offer Leadership Development programs to prepare them for the unique challenges and changes of an executive career.
Our specific Career Coaching programs include:
Comprehensive Programs for Successful Transitions
Whether it is due to the natural employee lifecycle, downsizing or corporate realignments—changes are inevitable. However, organizations can depend on Thompson Technologies to ease the transition of impacted employees through our comprehensive transition programs. From group programs for employees to one-on-one counseling for managers, Thompson Technologies provides an array of programs that can be tailored to fit any organizational transition population.
The program components can include any or all of the following to meet the needs of the organization:
- Self-assessment and counseling
- Networking and job search strategies
- Resume development and interview training
- Assistance on negotiating job offers
- Education on online resources
- Coaching to create a personal branding strategy
- Two-day career transition workshop covering critical areas employees must address during their career transition
- Employee transition center with office space and administrative support available
- One-on-one career transition counseling follow-up designed for managers
Specialized Assistance, High Impact Results
The dynamics associated with executive transitions can be extremely complicated and require special considerations for the organization, the community and the individual. It is essential that these factors are addressed in a positive manner to ensure a successful transition. Thompson Technologies provides a customized, executive transition program designed specifically to deliver high impact results for executives transitioning to another career opportunity.
The Executive Transition program addresses the following:
- One-on-one career counseling with an experienced coach
- Self-assessment tools and feedback for competitive differentiation
- In-depth coaching to create a personal branding and marketing strategies
- Completion of a world class resume
- Education on online resources
- Participation in search strategy networks and meetings
- Understanding the metrics of managing a job search campaign
- Interview training
- Assistance in negotiating a job offer
- Private work space with phone, e-mail, computer and administrative support available
Ensuring Success
Just because you’ve found the perfect candidate and the interview was impeccable doesn’t mean the transition into a new company or position will be an easy one. The most effective next step to a great hiring process is an equally strong on-boarding strategy. Organizations are able to accelerate the time to performance and success of new employees by integrating them in to their new environments effectively and thoroughly.
Thompson Technologies On-boarding programs help organizations establish specific training, metrics and milestones—setting clear expectations for both the manager and employee, while ensuring that perfect candidate isn’t lost in the hustle of day-to-day work. By getting the employee assimilated to a new culture with clear goals and a feeling as though they are part of the team from day one, helps to ensure they are on the same page and sets them up for success.
Our On-boarding programs include:
- In depth coaching with an experienced counselor
- Self-assessment tools and feedback
- Education on company culture
- Establishing the measures and metrics of job requirements
- Communiqués for boss and peers
- Strategies for moving ahead with change and growing career
- Strategies for transitioning into the new position for the first 90 days
- Establishing yourself as a leader
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