CareerCraft Workshops
This catalogue provides a list of CareerCraft’s workshops, with summary descriptions and learning objectives.
All of these programs can be customized to include organization-specific information. They can also be tailored for length or redesigned for different modalities, including asynchronous, synchronous, and blended delivery.
If you would like the complete outline for a specific workshop, please contact:
Laura Smith Dunaief
917.837.9426
Laura@CareerCraftInc.com
Professional Development
Branding:
Identify and Market Your Professional Brand
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Like products and services in the marketplace, each person has a professional brand.
Business Intelligence:
Build Your Business Acumen
Length: Half-day
Overview: The modern business environment is intricate and sometimes confounding – it’s influenced by continual changes in global and local economies, regulations, technology, customer needs, competitors’ strategies, and organizational structures.
Meeting Management:
Lead More Effective, Efficient Meetings
Length: Half-day
Overview: Running an effective meeting requires more than simply scheduling the right people into a time slot.
Purposeful Networking:
Build a Network that Works
Length: Half-day
Overview: We hear continually that networking is valuable during a job search; however, networking’s value extends far beyond this.
Time Management:
Create White Space in Your Day
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Today’s workplace is a continual stream of demands on our time.
Communication Skills
Business Writing - Basic:
Write to Be Understood
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: The techniques practiced in this highly interactive workshop will prepare you to write and present yourself effectively and professionally in today’s workplace.
Business Writing – Advanced:
Write to Connect and Influence
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Whether you write internal emails or formal presentations, the techniques practiced in this highly interactive workshop will help you write in a clear, succinct, and compelling way, speaking credibly to your readers and enhancing their perceptions of you and your organization.
Communicating Effectively:
Drive Clarity, Understanding and Empathy
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: This workshop focuses primarily on face-to-face and other non-written communications, exploring all of the components that factor into how your messages are received and interpreted.
Presentation Skills – Foundational:
Build Your Presentation Confidence
Length: Two half-days
Overview: In the modern workplace, employees are charged continually with delivering presentations.
Presentation Skills – Advanced:
Deliver High-Stakes Presentations that Influence Others
Length: Half-day
Overview: This advanced program is targeted to employees with opportunities to deliver high-stakes internal or external presentations and who seek to improve their skills with presentations designed to influence others.
Leadership and Management
Coaching and Feedback Skills:
Deliver Feedback that Motivates Others
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Effective organizational leaders provide detailed and timely feedback and coaching to those they interact with to motivate them and to change behavior, when necessary.
Creating and Managing a Culture of Accountability:
Drive Ownership and Problem-Solving
Length: Half-day
Overview: Organizations that thrive are built on a foundation of accountability.
Delegating Effectively:
Manage Delegation from Start to Finish
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Delegating appropriate tasks is a critical workplace skill; it frees the delegator to focus on other responsibilities and develops skills in those to whom tasks are delegated.
Enhancing Team Dynamics:
Minimize Conflict and Foster Engagement
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Beginning with the Teaming Up with Insight self-assessment of personal and work styles, this workshop leads participants through an exploration of their own work styles’ positive attributes and challenges.
Interviewing Skills:
Select Candidates Who Will Thrive
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Strong interviewers are able to match candidates to role- and company-specific needs. They delve beyond scripted responses and resume keywords to understand intangibles, like work ethic and cultural fit. This workshop will enable you to prepare for and deliver meaningful candidate interviews that contribute to effective hiring decisions.
Fostering Intrapreneurship:
Build a Culture of Innovation
Length: Half-day
Overview: In a quickly changing business environment, organizational leaders strive to foster a culture of creative problem-solving and innovation to stay competitive.
Leading Organizations:
What Great Leaders Do Differently
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Directors and Senior Directors in organizations are responsible for ensuring the organization’s goals are achieved.
Motivating and Developing Others:
Maximize Team and Individual Performance
Length: One day or two half-days
Overview: Maintaining employee motivation through good times and bad is a continuing management challenge.
Virtual and Hybrid Team Management:
Engage and Include Everyone
Length: Half-day
Overview: Virtual and hybrid teams provide a new level of challenge to team managers.