ImaginativeHR Career Review and Career Clinic Solutions
Supporting key colleagues to review their strengths, challenges, legacy and future career options
Delivering self-insight and enhancing self-confidence via individual career reviews and group career clinics:
Change, conscious structured transformation and new ways of working are constant and relentless across successful, fast-moving organisations; particularly in sectors impacted by environmental volatility, disruption and constant market and technological ‘forward-shift’. Since the overwhelming impact of COVID-19, most organisations have further had to make fundamental, sometimes dramatic modifications to working practices and organisation design; with significant implications for work-life balance, burnout endurance, career stability, career continuity and progression.
The rapid evolution, post-COVID, of hybrid working-related challenges, together with dramatic shifts in employee work-life priorities has furthermore driven a trend towards higher voluntary staff turnover, (e.g. the much referenced 2021 ‘Great Resignation’); with significant business continuity and cost implications. Now, more arguably than ever before; colleagues need to feel supported to enhance individual resilience, psychological ‘fitness’ and ultimately team engagement and performance.
Where leadership consciously considers ‘what’s in it?’ for both the organisation and individual careers and career mobility; teams develop greater confidence in their leaders, increase personal engagement and navigate challenging times with greater resilience.
4 good reasons to invest in individual career reviews and group career clinics:
ImaginativeHR partners organisations to deliver independent one-to-one career reviews and career clinics at all levels:
- to achieve practical and meaningful team engagement leadership ‘quick wins’, focused on both individual talent and key talent groups, e.g. following organisational redesign, staff engagement surveys, etc; particularly when opportunities for meaningful team development and engagement initiatives are limited by broader business challenges, budget, etc.,
- to assist staff who are contemplating specific internal re-deployment options, to encourage them to realistically consider and assess their personal / natural transferable strengths and exposure to date and how these strengths and experiences may be beneficial to lateral opportunities and career advancement in a post transformation / restructured environment,
- to give career direction to key senior and specialist talent (across key talent pools) which is at a career cross-road; particularly where organisations will benefit from retaining key talent which has demonstrated flexibility and versatility to date – often having led them to becoming a ‘safe pair of hands’, progressing laterally, from project to project; beneficial to the organisation, but often not necessarily to sequential individual career progression,
- to provide a clearly independent assessment / coaching incentive for staff who are contemplating voluntary redundancy offers; particularly where optimal retention needs are balanced by optimal redundancy needs, (e.g. encouraging specific individual leavers / communities to consider the benefits of VR).
ImaginativeHR individual career reviews and group career clinics:
ImaginativeHR’s career reviews and clinics provide highly-enabling independent and professional assessment and expert guidance by dedicated senior career coaches, (in an entirely ‘safe’ and fully-confidential environment), to systematically explore individual career options and aspirations; facilitating realistic personal growth, goal setting and action planning and enabling forward progression with confidence, energy and focus.
Our career reviews and clinics comprise three phases, (typically delivered over 3-5 sessions per person), delivered energetically by senior ImaginativeHR career coaches, suiting individual circumstances.
- Review (career to date):
- review career path – how and why appointments have changed
- identify experience and skills gained with key responsibilities
- achievements – what best defines success to date, together with tactics for presenting these
- Options, (future career):
- consider any existing challenges in current role, private life, financial circumstances and self – short term
- establish a statement of aims and objectives – long term
- next career move
- defining a plan
- transferable skills
- highlighting personal changes needed to achieve plan
- determining specific tactics
- identifying influences
- identifying key internal stakeholders
- monitoring the plan
- Action, (coaching and self-marketing):
- accurately determine the most suitable role(s) and environment(s) to shape and pursue a successful, satisfying and sustainable career
- identify and plan the steps needed in order to achieve both short and long term goals
- develop individual’s personal brand, and strengthen individual network within your current organisation
- Review (career to date):
Assessment tools for individual career reviews and group career clinics:
Our career review / career clinic ‘toolbox’ includes an array of assessments *, tools and techniques, tailored to each client’s specific needs; flexibly building self-insight, providing structure for problem solving / opportunity creation and introducing reflective space to encourage creative agility.
Career review and career clinic clients are most often offered access to our Lumina Spark assessment, which includes the following elements which are hugely beneficial to the development of self-awareness around values, strengths, behaviours and personality:
- A 42 page individual ‘Portrait’ assessment, focused on 3 Personas (underlying, everyday and overextended); reflecting personality, behaviours and preferences at the following levels:
- 4 Archetypes
- 8 Aspects (helpful for team comparisons and measuring complementary capabilities) and
- 24 Qualities (highly / robustly validated)
- A 42 page individual ‘Portrait’ assessment, focused on 3 Personas (underlying, everyday and overextended); reflecting personality, behaviours and preferences at the following levels:
- The Lumina App and personal webpage – which provides a personality cut at Aspect-level, which allows for colleague comparisons via individual Lumina QR codes.
