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Welcome to PowerUP Career

Here’s What to Expect —

This PowerUP Career program is designed from extensive research to help you be stronger at work and better navigate your career success. It’s your time to discover, reflect, and redirect to achieve what is most important to you. Throughout this learning, you will discover that there is more in your control than you imagine, and many unique ways to gain resilience, satisfaction and success at work that will meet your needs and goals.

This is about aligning what you want in a career that fills your satisfaction.

Each topic is divided into three learning modes, with a fourth optional connect: 

  • Begin each topic with an honest assessment of where you are personally. Rather than a one size fits all approach, PowerUP Career is designed to help you focus on what will matter most to you, based on where you are right now and where you are headed in your career. Think of it like a personal trainer for career muscles. The “check and reflect” approach is a unique feature in this program to help you apply research based realities to your situation and create strategies that will help you soar. These assessments are confidential and illustrative – providing personal insight on your strengths and potential gaps or blindspots, thus directing focus to areas that will help you overcome current blockers. Any data collected is anonymous and is used exclusively to advance our research and hone this design to meet your individual needs.

  • Think of this as a blog on steroids.  Our team has combined current research with practical application and expert insight, to bring you practical ways to navigate your career journey.  This will be a combination of new concepts, and insightful refreshers, to set the landscape for you to do some broad thinking and adopt some new habits. These habits are the foundation of your career fitness moving forward.

    We’ve included a curated collection of interesting support and sidebar topics to round out your learning. This is not our content, but it’s some of the best in the industry and a good way for you to know other experts in the field. Take a look at your leisure, and use these as a launching point to go deeper in what interests you. These resources are not ours, but we bring them to you because we believe in their value.

  • Once you’ve established your personal baseline via the assessment, and explored some interesting ideas in the Lab, it’s time to pull it together in your own meaningful way.  The secret ingredient to the PowerUP approach, is your own insight and commitment to take action for improvement and personal satisfaction.  While the Check In assessments are fun to take and score, don’t skip the reflection activities. These worksheets are structured to focus your thinking and help you set priorities to Move Forward.  These activities are your personal input for the PowerUP team conversations – where coaches and colleagues will collaborate to help you Move Forward. 

  • We are better together, than alone … so make it a priority to participate in the PowerUP dialogues if they are available.

    Chat – There’s a section for your input with each lab. This is your space to post questions, insights, practical ideas, and/or the hurdles which need advice.  Everything is fair game – use this space as your sounding board to learn how to PowerUP.

    Team — Many teams have the option to meet via video to have a more robust dialogue and build relationships that can carry us forward beyond the this experience.  Your cohort will be your “PowerUP team” with the mission to give you support and drive your success.  We will succeed together. 

Reflection is Key to PowerUP

We’ve all heard it, probably more than a few times – “practice makes perfect.” It’s hard to pinpoint where it all started, but it’s one of those subtle sayings that really packs-a-punch. It keeps us grounded in improvement based on consistency and daily repetitions.

And yet, there’s another subtle saying, equally as pervasive — claiming to be the definition of insanity – “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again, but expecting different results.” Most of us have experienced the painful truth of this saying, too.

So, how do we reconcile these silent steadfast mantras that cause conflict in our heads?

Whether or not these words resonate as true, many of us continue on in our life and work doing the same things and wondering why we aren’t getting better outcomes.

The good news is, the solution is easy to understand, costs nothing, and can be improved over time. The solution lies in personal reflection— in taking a step back and reflecting on life, actions, successes, and failures.