Career and Workplace Success

Career and Workplace Success All-Inclusive e-Course Module

The purpose of the Career and Workplace Success Module is a faith-based course to empower, equip, and prepare you to become focused on your personal assignment and purpose in life. This all-inclusive module was created for all age groups, for those in school, as well as individuals in the workplace, to provide you with practical and proven tools to succeed in life. The Focus Life Institute has utilized these materials in the following educational and workplace areas: as a trainer for the Coca-Cola Company®, in both Junior and Senior high schools, colleges, universities, churches, businesses and organizations.

 LESSON OUTLINE

This Career and Workplace Success Module will provide you with a process to get focused on your career path to be prepared for your future to advance in the workplace. The Course Curriculum includes 32 Video sessions, corresponding Notes with group discussion and self-study questions, five Profiles questionnaire worksheets, two eBooks, and Exams. This module is designed around your personal behavioral style and will provide you with personal solutions to achieve your God-given assignment, destiny, and personal dreams. The statistics and research continue to prove that being unfocused and lacking specific skills will negatively affect your future:

Educational Statistics

• Over 50% of people are not working a job or career in their major course of study. Source: CareerBuilder
• An estimated 20 to 50 percent of students enter a post-secondary education experience without declaring a major course of study. Source: Gordon
• Over 80% of students change their major course of study at least one to three times with an average cost of over $12,000 per change. Source: National Center for Education Statistics
• Over 30% of students dropout of college within the first two years. Source: National Student Clearinghouse and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development

Technology and Workplace Statistics

• According to research by Common Sense Media, both adults and young people are addicted to technology and are distracted from staying focused to achieve greater levels of success in their life. Most distractions are due to the time spent on our phones, texting, emails, and social media.
• For over the past 20 years, employers continue to say that graduates coming out of college, university, or technical schools continued to lack the soft skills to be able to be successful within their companies or organizations. Source: PayScale
• According to LinkedIn’s “Workplace Learning Report,” soft skills are the No. 1 priority for talent development. Further, a LinkedIn study found that hiring managers indicated their company’s productivity was limited due to a lack of candidates’ soft skills. In addition, a recent McKinsey study says that over 40% of employers said they have difficulty filling vacancies because younger workers lack soft skills such as communication, teamwork, and punctuality.
• According to Udemy’s survey, nearly three out of four workers (70%) admit they feel distracted when they’re on the job.

The objective in the Career and Workplace Success Module is to help you climb your mountain of success. “Think over these things I am saying [understand them and grasp their application], for the Lord will grant you full insight and understanding in everything.” (2 Timothy 2:7 AMPC)

God wants to give you insight into everything you possibly want to do in your life. The tools in this Career and Workplace Success Module are here to help you get focused. We are a generation that is distracted by all the social media and technology on our smartphones.

This module is here to educate, equip, enlighten, energize, and empower you to go out in society to be a change agent. Each of you has an assignment in life. Opportunities may come and go, but we need to make sure that our opportunities align themselves with our assignments.

Outcomes

The purpose of this module is to empower, equip, and prepare you to become focused on your personal assignment and purpose in life to impact, transform, and positively influence society! The materials found in this module will help you to discover life’s direction, develop career readiness, and be prepared for the workplace.

The Career and Workplace Course consists of the following sessions:

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