Presents

Retoolingand

Refueling

Workforce Connection

College of Central Florida

Donnah Ross and Bryan Sykes

College of Central Florida

Presented by:

•Training and support services for displaced workers.•A collaboration between WWDA

Workforce Connection and the College of Central Florida.

Professionals–2004Veterans–2006Extended displaced workers–

2011•Served more than 2,500 professionals

and 175 veterans YTD.

Refueling and Retooling

Purpose

To address issues that will improve finding a career,

direction and gainful

employment.

Program Objectives

•Develop coping skills to weather the layoff.•Gain insight into getting finances and

insurance in order to make it through the transition.•Discover personal knowledge, skills

and abilities.•Re-evaluate career goals and create a

personal plan.•To be successful in today’s

workplace.•Create an effective resume and cover

letter.•Practice networking and interviewing

techniques.

Program Design

•Participants referred from One-Stop.•Conducted same time/days each

month at College of Central Florida.•Training does not duplicate or replace

services provided by One-Stop.

Factors for Success

•Developed by a team of training specialists, One-Stop/veteran association staff, area psychologists and CF training director.•Instructors are outstanding in their

field and very caring people.•Collaboration creates strength.•Adjusted each year to meet needs of

community.•Part-time coordinator who is

committed and connected.

Benefits of Collaboration

•Provides a holistic approach.•Does not duplicate other community

resources.•Provides psychological and cognitive

training.•Supports neutral services.•Provides expert trainers/change agents.•Promotes communication between

agencies.

Program Content for Professionals

•Career assessment/transferable skills.•You in the process.•Who am I and how do I tell you about

my talents?•Resume workshop.•How do I get out of the prison of

unemployment?•Developing your compass.•Interviewing skills.•Now, what do I do next?•Tying it all together.

Program Content for Veterans

•Career assessment/transferable skills.•Temperament at work.•Employment and action planning.•Review of veteran benefits.•Resume workshop.•Interviewing skills and practice.•Homecoming hassles and civil

solutions.•Career coaching.

Career Coaching

•One-on-one motivational coaching and advisement.•Career coaches are retirees who have

had successful employment and have been in active duty in the armed forces. •Role of a career coach: motivator,

advisor, coach, career counselor, positive role model, advocate, self-esteem builder, listener and referral person for additional resources.

Program Content for Extended Displaced Workers

•You in the process.•First things first.•Weathering the financial storm.•Career launch services.•Career pathways.•If your life were a business, would you

invest in it?•Community Resources Fair.

•Many thank yous and personal testimonials.•Employment stats better than

average.•Support along the way.•R & R veterans recognized nationally

in 2010 in Washington, D.C., at the Department of Labor.

Success Stories

•Create a clear vision of the desired outcomes.•Decide what will it take achieve it.•Take focused, intelligent, and

effective action.•Measure progress to evaluate what’s

working.

Action Planning Process

You are here

•Why? – How people perform correlates to how situations occur to them.•How? – How a situation occurs arises

in language.•What? – Future-based language

transforms how situations occur to people.

Creating A Clear Vision

Positioning criterion for success

•Which strategies will position individuals for success?•How can mastery principles improve

performance?•What support systems will anchor

momentum?

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Applying what I know

•How people organize what they do.•How people think about what they do.•How people do what they do.

Taking Massive Action

Sustaining future momentum

•How a personal audit sustains future momentum.

•How the practice of “feed forward” bridges the gap to achieve desired outcomes.•How to utilize recovery strategies to

sustain progress.

What’s Working?

Thank youDonnah Ross and Bryan

SykesCollege of Central Florida