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Using Universal Truths and Counseling: Aligning Your Client’s Life Purpose with their Career
If you owned a boat and the rudder was not straight, it would be difficult to plan a trip and not first fix the rudder. Too often in workforce development we are focused on finding our clients a job without first “fixing” the person. Jobs come more easily when the person is centered and aligned with their life purpose. This workshop looks at universal truths that help the client become aligned with their life’s purpose and find a job that best works for them. The client’s history does not have to dictate their future. Learn techniques to get the client in alignment and centered in their life and that will help them in finding a job.
As a result of this workshop you will be able to help your clients/customers:
- Identify the universal truths
- Realize they are not what they think
- Keep the past from dictating the future
- Understand how ego is created and how it can interfere with success
- Let go of the past
- Learn to love themselves
- Create confidence
- Eliminate repetitive and addictive negative thoughts
- Align their life’s purpose with their career
- Stop negative self talk
- Trust their “gut”
- Put together alignment while searching for a job
- Be present in their current job to begin living in the zone
- Stop the negative chatter in their head
And who knows, while you're learning how to help your clients become more aligned, you just might learn a thing or two yourself!
Providing the Employer with Quality Employees
10 Techniques that will create a Successful Employee
Most employers are looking for Likeability, Dependability and the ability to carry out tasks. Employers are always asking to “send me someone who will show up on time, get along with others and I will teach them.” Many of us have trained our customers in skills training but they have a problem showing up on time or don’t know how to fit in with the company.
This workshop explores in depth the causes and solutions to helping the employee to becoming a winner and successful in the workplace.
You will learn:
- What the real needs of the employer are.
- Why skills training alone will not create a successful placement.
- Why placing an emphasis on finding a job may not be in the best interest of the employee or the employer.
- Techniques to change the likeability factor of an employee.
- How the likability factor fits into interviewing skills
- How to take the employee to a steady course of dependability.
- Why people stay on the job and how we can help.
- Seven techniques to teach your client how to advance in the job.
- How to use the seven techniques in working with an employee’s success plan.
- How to coach your client / customer to follow the plan.
This is a fast paced and fun seminar with lots of activity and techniques that will change your approach from job finding to successful career building.
IN THE NEWS
Social service providers gather in Clayton County, GA to improve skills
By Joel Hall
jhall@news-daily.com
Social service providers and representatives from work training programs throughout the metro-Atlanta area gathered in Clayton County on Thursday to learn how to do their jobs better.
Worktec, a Jonesboro-based work training and employment center that places citizens with disabilities in competitive jobs, hosted a job retention training summit at the Eula Ponds Perry Center in Jonesboro.
The guest lecturer for the summit was Paul Clayton, a nationally-known author and motivational speaker. He has trained more than 150,000 employment professionals over the last two decades how to motive their clients to get jobs, keep them, and move ahead — despite their disabilities.
Clayton said that it is critical for social workers to provide hope to their clients.
“The problem with our clients is that they quit their jobs without having another job” in place, he said. “You have to undermine their negative thinking. You want to create programs that let people know that they are not alone with their problems,” he added.
“Some people have become greater with their problems,” Clayton said, noting a woman he worked with who could type 70 words per minute regardless of the fact that she had one arm. “Everybody is motivated if they perceive control. You have to focus on what they are good at ... you have to find the thing they are in control of and work on that.”
The summit was the brainchild of Charles Waters, director of employee development at Worktec. He intended it to be a private seminar to help Worktec staff improve their skills as part of Worktec’s 30th anniversary celebration. After other organizations in metro Atlanta providing similar services expressed an interest, the summit was opened to the public.
“Agencies throughout the state are here to take advantage of this training,” Waters said. “I’m pleased with the attendance and the variety of organization that decided to participate.”
Fifty-five representatives from various social service providers were present, including United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia, The DeKalb County Community Service Board, Clayton County Community Services, and the Georgia Department of Labor.
Deborah Minter, program developer for Clayton County Community Services, said while many of the clients she sees are not physically or mentally disabled, many have difficulty keeping a steady job.
“To help people become successful, you have to not talk about employment, but the benefits of employment,” such as improving the client’s lifestyle, she said. “It’s not the job skills that usually get people fired ... it is the life skill problems.”
Jim Wood, a representative with the Tommy Nobis Center in Marietta, said the summit was helpful.
“We have a bit of a problem helping people get a job, but we have a bigger problem helping them stay there,” he said. “We need to give them something else,” other than job skills. “Anything like this is going to help me do my job better.”
“We need to teach success rather than just training people for jobs,” Clayton said.
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