Leadership Links Webinar Recording: Taking control of your career – How to think and talk about your next career steps

04/12/2024 - Leadership Links Webinar Recording: Taking control of your career – How to think and talk about your next career steps

This session was presented by John Lees, author of the best-selling How To Get A Job You Love. John outlined effective ways of thinking, managing and shaping your career path.


During this session we explored:
✓ Career Awareness – managing the next 18 months of your working life.
✓ How to begin if you don’t like talking about yourself and you don’t know
where your career is heading.
✓ Learning the career two-step – combining reflection and action
✓ Where are you in your learning curve?
✓ Motivated skills as a big clue to what you might like to do next.
✓ Keeping sharp – unsung and transferable skills.
✓ Authentic connecting – planting messages and telling energised stories.
✓ Understanding how key messages travel without you.

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John Lees

John Lees

Role:
Career strategist and author

John Lees is one of the UK’s most prominent career transition coaches, and regularly in the media as a career thought leader. He has published 15 books on careers and work including 11 editions of How to Get a Job You Love. His books have been translated into Arabic, Georgian, Polish, Japanese and Spanish. John has delivered workshops in Ireland, Germany, Mauritius, the USA, South Africa, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand. Recent corporate work includes projects with Boston Consulting Group, Careershifters, Deutsche Bank, Firework Coaching, Imperial College, Manpower, The Met Office, The National Audit Office, and business schools across the UK.
John is a graduate of the universities of Cambridge, London and Liverpool, and has spent most of his career focusing on the world of work, serving as
Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (now the Recruitment & Employment Confederation). He was a founding board member of the Career Development Institute and is a NICEC Fellow.

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