This document provides an overview of career progression, advancement, and development. It discusses key topics such as essential skills, creating the right impression, STEM jobs, making career decisions, and managing bad bosses. Definitions are given for terms like career, calling, vocation, and occupational identity status. Principles of career success, planned happenstance skills, and ways for leaders to keep ambitions alive are also covered. The document concludes with a summary and questions.

1. Career progression, career
advancement and career development
by Toronto Training and HR
August 2015

2. CONTENTS
3-4 Introduction
5-6 Definitions
7-8 Principles for career success
9-10 Essential skills to get ahead
11-12 Create the right impression
13-15 A calling and/or vocation
16-18 STEM jobs
19-20 Can you trust someone at work?
21-22 Prompting trustworthiness in others
23-24 Going into a performance review fully prepared
25-27 Planned happenstance skills
28-29 Occupational identity status
30-31 Mental programming techniques which can make a difference
32-33 Ways for leaders to keep their career ambitions alive
34-35 Insight channels for would-be innovators
36-41 Bad bosses and ways to manage them
42-44 Dimensions which make up a career decision making profile
45-46 Reasons for career indecisiveness
47-48 Difficulties in making career decisions
49-50 Conclusion, summary and questions
Page 2

3. Page 3
Introduction

4. Page 4
Introduction to Toronto Training
and HR
Toronto Training and HR is a specialist training and
human resources consultancy headed by Timothy Holden
10 years in banking
15 years in training and human resources
Freelance practitioner since 2006
The core services provided by Toronto Training and HR
are:
Training event design
Training event delivery
HR support with an emphasis on reducing
costs, saving time plus improving employee
engagement and morale
Services for job seekers

5. Page 5
Definitions

6. Definitions
• Career progression
• Career advancement
• Career development
Page 6

7. Page 7
Principles for career
success

8. Principles for
career
success
• Goal setting
• Continuous improvement
• Flexibility
• Relationship building
• Persuasiveness
• Global mindset
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9. Page 9
Essential skills to get
ahead

10. Essential skills to
get ahead
• Skills for being
real
• Skills for being
whole
• Skills for being
innovative
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11. Page 11
Create the right
impression

12. Create the right
impression
• Activate the desire to be
fair
• Make yourself necessary
• Seize the right moments
Lenses of perception
• Promotion/prevention
• Anxious/avoidant
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A calling and/or a vocation

14. A calling and/or
a vocation 1 of 2
• Definition of a calling
• Definition of a
vocation
Page 14

15. A calling and/or
a vocation 2 of 2
The event or episode
that shaped one’s
calling
• Content
• Context
• Confirmation
• Continuation
Page 15

16. Page 16
STEM jobs

17. STEM jobs
1 of 2
Definition one
• Computer sciences and
mathematics
• Engineering and
surveying
• Physical, life and
geosciences
• STEM managerial
occupations
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18. STEM jobs
2 of 2
Definition two
• Computer occupations
• Engineers and
engineering technicians
• Mathematical science
occupations
• Life and physical science
occupations
• Architects, surveyors and
technicians
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19. Page 19
Can you trust someone at
work?

20. Can you trust
someone at work?
• Integrity can vary
• Power does corrupt
• Confidence often
masks
incompetence
• It’s OK to trust
your gut
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21. Page 21
Prompting trustworthiness
in others

22. Prompting
trustworthiness
in others
• Be generous
• Emphasize similarity
• Don’t punish
Page 22

23. Page 23
Going into a performance
review fully prepared

24. Going into a
performance
review fully
prepared
Questions to ask
• What is the purpose
of the performance
review?
• What is the emotion
in the room?
• What are some
specific examples?
• What can I do next?
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Planned happenstance
skills

26. Planned
happenstance
skills 1 of 2
• Definition of planned
happenstance
• Questions which
might be asked
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27. Planned
happenstance
skills 2 of 2
Planned
happenstance skills
• Curiosity
• Persistence
• Flexibility
• Optimism
• Risk taking
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28. Page 28
Occupational identity
status

29. Occupational
identity status
Definition of
occupational identity
status
• Achievement
• Moratorium
• Foreclosure
• Diffusion
Page 29

30. Page 30
Mental programming
techniques which can
make a difference

31. Mental
programming
techniques
which can make
a difference
• Abundant thinking
• Creativity
• Emotional
non-attachment
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32. Page 32
Ways for leaders to keep
their career ambitions
alive

33. Ways for
leaders to keep
their career
ambitions alive
• Don’t allow yourself to
get pigeonholed
• Take calculated risks
• Go all out
• Keep score
• Act like you belong
• Use your distinctiveness
to your advantage
• Be on the cutting edge
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34. Page 34
Insight channels for
would-be innovators

35. Insight
channels for
would-be
innovators
• Anomalies
• Confluence
• Frustrations
• Orthodoxies
• Extremities
• Voyages
• Analogies
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36. Page 36
Bad bosses and ways to
manage them

37. Bad bosses and
ways to manage
them 1 of 5
• Bully
• Micromanager
• Workaholic
• Divisive
• By-the-numbers
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38. Bad bosses and
ways to manage
them 2 of 5
It’s not fair!
• Overload
• No backup
• No excuses
• No trust
• Promises, promises
• That’s perfect-not!
• You’re great, but…
• Only good enough
to train others
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39. Bad bosses and
ways to manage
them 3 of 5
Power players
• Turn yes into no
• The wolf in sheep’s
clothing
• Control the control
freak
• A bad boss in a big
bureaucracy
• Breaking through the
bureaucracy
• It goes with the
territory
• Who’s the boss?Page 39

40. Bad bosses and
ways to manage
them 4 of 5
Out of bounds
• Dirty looks
• A new boss is
insulting and
abusive
• Call 911
• Drunk, disorderly
and untouchable
• The intrusive boss
• Party planner
• Cultural divide
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41. Bad bosses and
ways to manage
them 5 of 5
Ethical challenges
• Dealing with danger
• The cover-up
• It’s a crime
• Sex and faxes
• Give in to collective
denial or leave?
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Dimensions which make
up a career decision
making profile

43. Dimensions
which make up
a career
decision making
profile 1 of 2
• Information gathering
• Information processing
• Locus of control
• Effort invested in the
process
• Procrastination
• Speed of making the
final decision
• Consultation with
others
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44. Dimensions
which make up
a career
decision making
profile 2 of 2
• Dependence on others
• Desire to please others
• Aspiration for an ideal
occupation
• Willingness to
compromise
• Using intuition
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Reasons for career
indecisiveness

46. Reasons for
career
indecisiveness
• Pessimistic views
• Negative ramifications
of anxiety
• Self-concept and
identity
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47. Page 47
Difficulties in making
career decisions

48. Difficulties in
making
career
decisions
• Difficulties prior to
engaging in the career
decision-making process
• Difficulties due to a lack
of information
• Difficulties involving the
use of information
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49. Page 49
Conclusion, summary and
questions

50. Page 50
Conclusion, summary and
questions
Conclusion
Summary
Videos
Questions