As principal of a distance-delivered employability learning program, Dr. Sally Gelardin has been in the field of education for over thirty years, both as an entrepreneur and as an educator and counselor in educational institutions. In addition to running her own career education business, she has served as owner and full-time operator of a 2600 square foot retail business and as a career counselor in private practice. Her online job search and employability course is approved as part of the Career Development Facilitator curriculum and for CEUs by the Center for Credentialing and Education, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors. She created the first online employability course in the market. It is self-paced and online so that users can take the course in their location and time of choice and so I can administer it from anywhere, anytime. Dr. Gelardin is also author of two books, one on lifework success for women and the other on entrepreneurship. She created the first and only multi-media entrepreneur kits, with contributions by leading career entrepreneurs (counselors and coaches) for professionals and for potential and current entrepreneurs.

Explain to a colleague how to register on a professional blogging, netwworking platform. You will know if you have explained the process of registering effectively if your colleague has set up his/her e-profile.

Here are the steps to registering on lifeworkps.com:

1. Go to Main Index.
2. View examples of complete profiles.
3. Register for an account.

1. Assess your strengths
2. Research information in print and distance-delivered media and conduct field research.
3. Narrow down your options and identify a goal (short or long-term).
4. Create and implement a plan to put your goal into action.

Based on Knowdell's Job and Career Decision-Making Process

What

Learn how to start up and manage a blogging, networking e-community. Create an environment where members can have discussions through blogs (web logs), plan and announce events, and connect with other related associations.

When

Thursday Evenings 5 pm to 6 pm Pacific Time.

January 24, 2008, 5-6 pm Pacific, 8-9 pm EST.

Janurary 31, 2008, 5-6 pm Pacific, 8-9 pm EST.

February 7, 2008, 5-6 pm Pacific, 8-9 pm EST.

Delivery

1-Hour Real-Time Teleclasses with Internet Access

Presenters

Dr. Sally Gelardin
Marilyn Harryman, M.S.

Audience

Counselors, Career Practitioners, Counseling and Career Organizational Leaders

What You Will Learn

Discover your Web presence.

Create a professional Web presence.

Create and update your online personal profile easily.

Set up and manage an e-community.

Communicate with clients and colleagues through restricted access blogs.

Set up hyperlinks.

Web "Netiquette."

Fee: $89 for three 1-hour telesessions. Listeners are required to have Internet access while participating in the telephone conversations.

For More Information...

Call Sally Gelardin 415 312 4294 or email Sal @jobjuggler.net. In subject line, enter "eNetworking Telesessions."

View the following sites on Web etiquette and professional standards for use of the Internet:

The Practice of Internet Counseling (National Board for Certified Counselors).

ACA Code of Internet Ethics(American Counseling Association)

Ethics and Regulations of Cybercounseling (You may need to be logged in as an American Counseling Association member with your username and password.)

Definition of Netiquette(Wikipedia)

Web Etiquette (Linkedin)

1. Assess Your Entrepreneurial Strengths

To decide whether to start or grow a business, it can be helpful (with the assistance of a career counselor) to assess your interests, skills, family and other early influences, values, and personality traits. In addition, it can be helpful to examine your inner motivations and learning style preferences.

Examine Your Inner Motivations

Are you primarily a risk-taker, a relationship person, or a peacekeeper? English's Inner Motivation Exercise can help you to identify your primary motivations for making a decision (such as whether to start or grow a private practice or whether to provide distance and/or in-person counseling).

Determine Your Learning Style Preferences

What is your preferred way of learning? In other words, do you learn best by reading or viewing movies (visual), listening to audiotapes (auditory), writing (kinesthetic), talking (interpersonal), reflecting (intrapersonal)? Following is a decision-making model that emphasizes being present as you think about the future or reflect upon the past. View the Tightrope Artist Model for Decision-Making (Gelardin, 2006) to determine whether to start a business. The underlying principal of this model is that to make a business decision, it is important to be fully present; i.e., not to let your fear of future failure or regret of past mistakes stand in your way of moving forward.

Assessment Tools Available on the Internet

There are many free and for-fee assessment tools that can help you identify your interests, skills, values, and personality traits (see list in Resources). A free reference for assessing your interests, values, and skills online is O*Net Online, The Occupational Information Network. Several for-fee entrepreneur assessment tools, available both in paper and online, that can help you figure out if you "have what it takes" to be a successful entrepreneur are available in Entrepreneur Kits.

2. Research information

O*Net is filled with information that is useful to anyone considering starting a business. This site will also link readers to the Small Business Administration (SBA) site. SBA is an "independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation" (About SBA).

In addition to Internet research, you can read books, magazines (such as Entrepreneur Magazine), and explore a wide variety of resources. You can also conduct informational interviews with private practitioners to learn how they conduct their businesses.

3. Take Action

It's one thing to start a business and another to make it work. Sole practitioners can be lonely if they make business decisions by themselves. To support you in the process of starting and growing a business, I gathered together 16 leading career entrepreneurs (counselors, counselor educators, and coach trainers), who run their own businesses. I asked them to both write about their experiences identifying mentors, getting started, managing challenges, and identifying resources, as well as provide exercises for the reader to perform that can help in the entrepreneurial process. Then I compiled these experts' reflections and exercises into a National Career Development Association (NCDA) monograph, Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy: Successful Career Entrepreneurs Share Stories and Strategies. I moderate panels of leading career entrepreneurs all over the country and present workshops on how entrepreneurs and "intrepreneurs" (entrepreneurial practitioners who work within an organization) can enhance their services by employing electronic tools.

A monograph and panel discussions, though helpful in getting you started thinking about starting or growing a business, may not be enough to keep you going. Having run an Internet-based business for several years, I am aware of the value that technology can offer to new and growing businesses. Therefore, I invited monograph contributors to host blogs on entrepreneurial topics to which you can respond or through which you can ask questions.

1. View my personal profile to see an example of how you can establish (and easily update) an Internet presence to attract clients and to provide a service that you can offer to clients.

2. First register on lifeworkps.com.

3 Return to the Private Practice Online Community and join this community. In yellow box, "Click here to join this community."

4. Click on Distance Tele Topics in the gold box. View a post and respond to a post.

5. After you register, for help in any of the above tasks, click on LWPS Help in top right header of any LWPS webpage.

Summary

You have viewed a post and responded to a post in the Private Practice online Community. You now have the basic technical skills needed to participate in this Community. To further develop your Internet presence, click on Create Your Profile.

First, I am going to explain the technology that supports the web platform that I am demonstrating and upon which I have set up several career training programs. The reason I am explaining it is because if you are part of an organization, you may have access to WebCT and Blackboard, the most widely used web course platforms by colleges and universities in the United States. WebCT and Blackboard adopted the technology that we are using for our trainings.

You can set up an online private or group practice or an organizational e-community. For example, view Ed Colozzi's eProfile. Then view "Owned Communities" in the right column. Click on his "Dove" eCommunity. View my eProfile, and then view the "Owned Communities" that I have set up, such as the GCDF eCommunity.

You can publicize both services and products in your eProfile or in an eCommunity that you can create. If you are part of an organization, you can link this eCommunity to your organization's website.

Set up eCommunities To Inform Potential Clients of Services

For example:

Career Development Facilitator Training

Career Development Facilitator Instructor Training

Job Search Practitioner Training

Distance Job and Career Transitions Coach Training

Set up eCommunities To Encourage Communication Over the Internet

Examples:
Job Juggler eCommunity
Entrepreneur eCommunity

What are the advantages and challenges of distance job and career transition coaching?

Both client and coach can save on travel time and expenses, whether they communicate in real time or at different times.

Since client and coach depend more on written word, they must present their thoughts carefully on the Internet.

Clients may prefer to share more in an distance relationship than they would in a face-to-face (F2F) setting.

How can Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches incorporate distance coaching in their work?

Help clients organize their career development process by setting up electronic portfolios.

Administer online self-assessment instruments for clients and help them interpret results.

Guide clients in performing field research through distance modalities.

Help clients enhance their job search and employability skills through distance modalities.

Guide clients in managing their web presence.

Practice "netiquette" (Internet etiquette), as well as distance coaching ethical and legal standards).

What competencies will be addressed during the training?

Job and Career Exploration

Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches can identify relevant distance delivered research and resources.
1. How to Use Libraries and The Internet
2. Field Research Rather Than Information Interviews
3. Using Networking to Obtain Information, Ideas, Referrals and Interviews

Distance Coaching Process

Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches can apply a distance-delivered career development process that includes the following:
1. Identification of skills, values, and personality traits
2. Field research
3. Setting intentions
4. Taking action steps

Assessment

Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches understand and apply career development assessment tools through distance modalities.
1. Prioritizing Career Values
2. Identifying Transferable Skills
3. Using Work and Management Style
4. Career Interest Assessment
5. Assessment in Perspective

Setting Intentions

Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches help clients focus on an immediate job objective or a long-term career intention:
1. Matching Skills With Tasks
2. Matching Styles with Managers and Peers
3. Matching Career Values with Organizations

Building and Managing a Career Strategy Plan
Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches practice proven job and career coaching techniques.

Ethical/Legal Issues
Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches work within the parameters of ethical and legal-regulatory guidelines that govern face-to-face and distance-delivered helping services.

Mentoring
Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches understand how to seek mentoring and know how to refer clients to professional services outside their experience and competency.

How are my distance job and career transition coaching competencies evaluated?

Each component of the training includes an assessment in the form of one or more of the following: a demonstration, responses to multiple-choice progress, discussion, and review questions, quiz.

Can I obtain continuing education for this training?

You will receive 20 Contact Hours upon completion of the training.

Do I need a certain level of education and experience in this area prior to participating in the course?

You must be comfortable working on a computer, and have an email address and a fast Internet connection (i.e., DSL, cable).

You must have earned the Job & Career Transition Coach or Job & Career Transition Development Certificate, the Job Search Practitioner Certificate, the Global Career Development Facilitator Certificate, a Master's degree in a helping professional field from a regionally accredited college or university, or completed a master's level career development course at a college or university, and have a minimum of 2000 hours of career advising experience.

Topics Covered

• Conducting Coaching Over The Internet and by Telephone
  
• Becoming Familiar with Effective online Career Assessment Tools
  
• Conducting Job Search and Career Exploration over the Internet
  
• Building and Managing a Career Strategy Plan Online
  
• Teaching Resume Writing and Interviewing Online
  
• Guiding and Tutoring Clients Online and by Telephone
  
• Teaching Salary Negotiation Online and by Telephone
  
• Providing Information Online and by Telephone
  
• Giving Assessment Feedback Online and by Telephone


Distance Component: Six One-Hour Teleclasses 

Demonstration of learning outcomes.

• Complete three online career assessment instruments.
  
• Perform online and field research.
  
• Complete an online employability e-course and read practitioner manual.
  
• Create a Job and Career Transition Coach hard copy and electronic Portfolio.
  
• Apply distance coaching skills with a "client."
  
• Participate in six one-hour teleclasses.
  
  
  Face-to-Face Workshop Component
  14 hours in-person training
• Who Should Attend This Workshop?
  Any professional who has the responsibility of providing distance counseling, guiding, advising, coaching, or training in job search and or carer planning activities. Most participants hold bachelors degrees and some hold advanced degrees. Formal counselling training is not required.
  
  Workshop Content
  Content: Skills and knowledge that will help coaches use the Internet and telephone to facilitate and guide clients to make successful short-term job transitions and long term career transitions.
  
  CEUs
  20 continuing education hours:  6 hours distance delivered, 14 hours classroom

• DJCTC Planning
  
  About The Trainer
  SALLY GELARDIN, Ed.D., NCC, JCTC, DCC is the author of The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Activities for Promoting Lifework Success and Editor of Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy. She serves as Guest Editor of the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal. She is a past president of the California Career Development Association (CCDA) and an active member of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and the American Counseling Association (ACA). She developed and runs The Job Juggler's distance-delivered Job Search Practitioner Certificate Program and produces Entrepreneur Kits with carefully selected and highly rated products developed by leading career professionals for career practitioners, entrepreneurs, and family businesses.
  
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