CMI’s GSA Catalog includes 3 sections covering our award-winning programs:
- Career transition services for all levels of employees
- Individual career counseling and coaching sessions as a standalone service or part of a larger program
- Career pathing, advancement and knowledge courses on an as-needed basis or part of a larger program
1. Career Transition Services
CMI has contributed to the success of numerous large group outplacements in multiple industries. Organizations using CMI’s time-tested and innovative approach to outplacement find that our expertise brings actual savings in finances, reputation, and working relationships as well as the preservation of morale, good will, and trade secrets.
All transition services include:
- Printed and/or Electronic Course Materials
- Electronic Presentation
- Web-based Supplemental Elements
- Anonymous Evaluation
Read more about the career transition services CMI offers through GSA
1 Day Group Career Transition Workshop
This type of event is best suited to employees who will be leaving the organization within a pre-determined time period. Each person’s treatment before, during, and after their notification is of paramount importance for their ultimate success and for the well-being of the entire organization. Knowledgeable execution of group outplacement requires attention to detail, careful planning, and judicious delivery of transition services so the separating employees receive consistent and timely messages that support a calm and dignified exit and superior career/life transition assistance.
2 Day Group Career Transition Workshop
Two days of group workshops allow separating employees to gain more in-depth information that reinforces networking and interviewing techniques for a successful job search. This type of event is best suited to employees who will be leaving the organization within a pre-determined time period. Each person’s treatment before, during, and after their notification is of paramount importance for their ultimate success and for the well-being of the entire organization. Knowledgeable execution of group outplacement requires attention to detail, careful planning, and judicious delivery of transition services so the separating employees receive consistent and timely messages that support a calm and dignified exit and superior career/life transition assistance.
3 Month Career Transition Program
Three-month individual career transition programs provide each separating employee with career/life counseling that includes each step in the transition process. Expansion of innovative methods of providing client services have enhanced CMI’s basic premise:
- Determine what each person at each level needs to prosper, utilizing CMI’s proprietary Career Alignment Profile®
- Provide the necessary resources for each individual’s needs
- Guide, counsel and closely monitor successful completion of each step in the process
- Provide individualized, unlimited career counseling support that leads to success
6 Month Career Transition Program
Six-month individual career transition programs provide each separating employee ample time to get the most from career/life counseling that includes each step in the transition process. Expansion of innovative methods of providing client services have enhanced CMI’s basic premise:
- Determine what each person at each level needs to prosper, utilizing CMI’s proprietary Career Alignment Profile®
- Provide the necessary resources for each individual’s needs
- Guide, counsel and closely monitor successful completion of each step in the process
- Provide individualized, unlimited career counseling support that leads to success
6 Month Executive Career Transition Program
Six-month executive individual career transition programs should be offered to those individuals in the organization who have been in leadership positions. This program level may include office space and administrative assistance. Expansion of innovative methods of providing client services have enhanced CMI’s basic premise:
- Determine what each person at each level needs to prosper, utilizing CMI’s proprietary Career Alignment Profile®
- Provide the necessary resources for each individual’s needs
- Guide, counsel and closely monitor successful completion of each step in the process
- Provide individualized, unlimited career counseling support that leads to success
2. Individual Career Counseling and Coaching Session
Individual career counseling and coaching sessions last for one hour. An attendee may decide to discuss a present job situation, work to resolve a workplace conflict, plan a path for career advancement or may concentrate on perfecting a resume. The content of the meetings will always be kept confidential.
Individual Session
All sessions include:
- Virtual or on location sessions
- Resume/Curriculum Vitae preparation and modifications
- Stress and trauma counseling
- Pre-session assessments to evaluate marketable strengths
- Determination of communication style for interviewing success
- Development of potential career areas for advancement/employment
- Establishment of realistic career options, including self-employment
- Development and execution of marketing plans
- Effective utilization of recruiters to complement the job search
- Tools for professional development
- Continuing analysis of the networking and interviewing processes
- Help with evaluation and negotiation of offers
- Continuing assistance in a new position
3. Career Pathing, Advancement and Knowledge Courses
CMI provides a number of training workshops for our clients. Each workshop has been tailored to deliver crucial and pertinent information in a relaxed and enjoyable fashion. All courses include:
- Printed and/or Electronic Course Materials
- Electronic Presentation
- Web-based Supplemental Elements
- Anonymous Evaluation
Achieving Life Balance
All too often, our lives feel out of balance. Because we focus so much energy on only one or two elements of our lives, we often neglect other crucial elements that can ultimately cause major concerns. In this workshop, participants will learn to incorporate all six major elements for a full and balanced life:
- One. A Healthy Lifestyle
- Two. Strong Relationships with Family and Friends
- Three. Ongoing Career Development
- Four. Effective Time Management
- Five. Positive Communications
- Six. Everything Else – The “Details of Life”
Behavioral Based Interviewing Skills
The premise of behavioral-based interviewing is that the most accurate predictor of future performance is past performance in a similar situation. Participants will learn:
- The process of behavioral-based interviewing and how it is used by employers to ask probing interview questions to determine if applicants possess the skills they are seeking
- Questions and answers that may typically be included in behavioral based interviews
- Techniques and resources to enable successful navigation through the interview process
Coping with Stress: Professionally & Personally
This recently updated and improved workshop uses self-assessments to help participants understand stress and how it affects their personal and professional lives. Participants learn to:
- Discover their own personal stress triggers
- Minimize or eliminate common stressors
- Empty their “stress buckets” regularly
- Improve their coping methods
- Gain greater life satisfaction
- Identify stress in others to improve relationships
Communicating Your Accomplishments and Performance
Effectively communicating your accomplishments in the workplace is vital to progression within an organization. In this workshop, participants learn to:
- Understand the importance of two-way communication
- Determine what both the underlying and stated challenges are and how to choose appropriate accomplishments as examples of previous solutions
- Construct clear, concise messages in the interest of the receiver
- Use nonverbal factors to reinforce their message
- Listen actively to improve communication, and use feedback to overcome barriers to communication
Developing Your Career Path
Understanding focus, motivation, and personal strengths enable participants to appreciate how their strengths best match opportunities in their current organization or in the workplace. Learning the importance of effective career planning that leads to an efficient job search is a key element in successful career pathing. This session helps participants to:
- Define and articulate their top three marketable strengths
- Understand the path and process to successful career planning and development
- Learn to use tools and resources for professional growth and development
Dimensions of Diversity: Addressing Career Challenges for Women and Minorities
This workshop explores many of the unique challenges women and minorities face and assists participants in developing strategies for success. After exploring the power of diversity in the 21st-century workplace, participants will identify challenges that they have faced in their own workplaces, as well as:
- Exploring barriers and challenges for women and minorities
- Investigating the importance of identifying and pursuing possible career pathways
- Learning how to find and develop a relationship with an appropriate mentor
- Developing professional networks, both in-person and virtually
Eliminating Barriers to Success
This session teaches participants how to recognize negative behaviors in themselves and others. Participants learn the predictable results of negative behaviors and how to deal with these “barriers to success”. This workshop assists participants to:
- Identify the barriers to success in their lives
- Recognize the warning signs that precede their personal barriers and those of others
- Learn how to deal with others who “Hit Your Hot Buttons”
- Create a plan of action to eliminate or reduce the barriers to success
- Practice the skills to avoid the barriers to success in their future careers
For Supervisors and Team Leads: Building Trust to Improve Team Results
Effective leaders commit to appropriately directing the efforts of others to accomplish specific goals and objectives. This workshop will enable participants to:
- Learn to use the sum of their individual traits, skills, and abilities to provide effective and consistent leadership
- Understand that exercising leadership involves building and sustaining trusting relationships between leaders and followers
- Effectively teach leaders how to provide meaningful support to enable teams to realize their full potential
- Realize that without this bond or connection, there are no willing followers and no true leader
Improving Individual Job Performance
This interactive workshop focuses on understanding the competencies for successful job performance. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the qualities and learn the skills that bring professionalism and success to the job
- Be aware of the standards and attributes required for professional job performance
- Understand behavior related to interpersonal communication and job competencies for success in the workplace
- Promote cooperation and teamwork through better communication with peers, managers, and other coworkers
- Create their Individual Career Plan
Knowing Success by Knowing Yourself and Others
This workshop uses CMI’s proprietary self-assessment to help participants understand themselves and others in a specific environment. This workshop enables participants to:
- Appreciate individual differences
- Develop effective strategies for working with each other
- Identify their personal behavioral style
- Learn about the importance of accepting and respecting individual differences in behavior and needs in the workplace
- Develop communication and behavioral strategies to accommodate differing behavioral styles
- Learn to calibrate their communication style to that of others
Managing Time and Resources
Effective time management is critical to success in today’s fast-moving, multi-tasking workplace. In this workshop, participants learn to:
- Learn how different types of people use their time and how to work successfully with people who do not plan their use of time in the same manner
- Identify the different factors affecting time mastery
- Assess their personal mastery of each factor
- Develop action plans to make the best use of their time and priorities
Preparing Your Accomplishment-Based Resume
When properly prepared and used, the resume becomes the ticket that removes the barriers to new career possibilities. This workshop focuses on resume writing and techniques for effective interviewing. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Discuss their career strengths, abilities, and styles
- Understand how a marketable definition that sells best supports an accomplishment-based resume
- Produce a comprehensive resume
- Illustrate how they can use their skills in a variety of situations
- Understand the different types of interviews
- Use tips and techniques for successful interviewing
Seeing Opportunities with a Positive Attitude
Understanding the focus, motivation, and behavior of others enables participants to appreciate individual differences and to develop effective strategies for working with all types of people. Participants will learn to:
- Identify their own work expectations
- Discover which expectations they consider most important
- Get feedback regarding how to communicate their expectations to others
- Take steps to get their expectations met, adjust their expectations when appropriate, and improve their outlook to enhance their attitude toward work
Skills to Building Workplace Rapport
This workshop enables participants to learn how their good manners can produce increased workplace harmony and positive rapport, even in difficult circumstances. In this workshop, participants will:
- Discuss the positive and negative results of good and bad workplace rapport
- Discover the answer to “Can You Work With All Kinds of People?”
- Learn how to positively disengage from negative rapport
- Learn how different types of people react differently to the same stimulus
- Discover “When to Hold ‘Em, and When to Fold ‘Em”
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