A WorkLife Lesson: Declan’s Story: Part 1: The Big Steps:
Declan, a Career Coach, had worked for five years helping people manage, develop and transitions their WorkLives. He wanted to reach more people with his work. The way he identified he could do this was to move from one-to-one coaching to group training events. So, he developed his coaching programme into a two-day residential workshop.
He had never facilitated a group workshop before, but because it was material he was familiar with, he was reasonably confident it would go OK.
He has also never run an event before, he was less confident about that, but he figured by taking a common-sense approach, it would go OK.
He knew the perfect venue that would cater for his needs. A country hotel that had a range of conference rooms to facilitate larger group work, along with breakout rooms for smaller group work. It had the rooms required for the overnight stay, and it provided the catering needed. But as Declan discovered, there was a lot more to organising an event than it just being the perfect venue. First, he had to commit to the venue rental, and it didn’t come cheap. The perfection of the venue was reflected in the price, and it was scary. Actually, scary is an understatement. He was required to make a significant financial commitment before anyone had registered for the event.
Declan adopted a ‘Go Big or Go Home’ approach. He was adopting a strategy for potentially big incremental learning, development and growth steps.
In this lesson, you will learn the Five Steps Declan applied to adopt a strategy for potentially big incremental learning, development and growth and how that worked out.
You will learn how the Four Steps he applied to adopt for potentially small incremental learning, development and growth and how that worked out.
In this lesson’s WorkLife Learning Assignment, you will adopt and adapt the Five Steps to your WorkLife learning, development and growth.
In this lesson’s Continuous WorkLife Learning Assignment, you will adopt and adapt the Four Steps to your WorkLife learning, development and growth.