The following is from Phil DeVol and Ruth Weirich. Both are aha! Process consultants. DeVol is author of Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World, and Weirich is author of Workplace Stability.
The job market is fast becoming an employer market, with mandates to work from the office, layoffs, tight budgets, and lean technology. The power is shifting from the employee to the employer.
Not all of our clients are ready for a tight market, and Getting Ahead in the Workplace can help.
Let’s give our clients the opportunity to better succeed in life and work, as they are doing at The Springs Living.
Getting Ahead in the Workplace provides investigation into mindsets, habits, and patterns and allows employees or job seekers with a future-focused orientation. Getting Ahead in the Workplace teaches participants how to:
- Think in the abstract instead of the concrete
- Adapt language to a situation or setting
- Improve listening and discussion skills
- Manage their time
- Plan backwards
- Build resources
- Bridge social capital
- Understand the hidden rules of work
- Work as a team
Employers are looking for employee performance, reliability, growth, and retention. The job markets are shifting faster than ever, and we can be a part of sending entry-level, lower-wage workers who are more fully prepared to fully participate in the workplace setting.
When Getting Ahead in the Workplace graduates enter workplaces, employers report higher retention, increased communication, increased group cohesiveness, improved problem-solving skills, and enhanced teamwork.
Learn more about the business solutions aha! Process offers. Workplace Stability is the workshop and book available to executives, managers, and supervisors. Getting Ahead in the Workplace is the model for those employees living on the economic fringe. Using these two pieces together creates a shared language in the workplace that improves employer/employee relationships and outcomes.
