Sponsored by: TPM
maximizing your potential

Organizational change. It seems to happen more frequently than ever. Goals and priorities shift, departments reorganize, initiatives get delayed and budget cuts take place. How do we take charge of our future with so much uncertainty?

Change management professionals agree that employees are best advised to maximize their potential; doing so will help them be even more valuable in their current organization and equipped to handle challenges and opportunities that arise. In other words, we can make change work for SCG and ourselves.

Below is a collection of resources and tools for maximizing your potential. You’ll see that it includes classes, audio CDs, e-learning and websites – so you can choose your favorite options. In each section below, topics include:

Managing Change - Career Planning - Building Your Network -  Financial Planning

Click on the graphic below to access resources and tools





Tools, Job-aids and Checklists

Managing Change

Career Planning

Building Your Network

Financial Planning





































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Books, Videos and Audio CD's

Books, Videos and Audio CDs are available in the OED Resource Library,
Administration Center, 4th Floor
Contact: Kathy Byrd, OED, 861-5341, kbyrd@scgov.net


Books:


Managing Change

  • Crucial Conversations - Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High
  • Managing Change at Work

Career Planning
  • What Color Is Your Parachute?
  • Career Compass
  • Development First Handbook
  • Maximum Sucess: Changing the 12 Behavior Patterns that Keep You from Getting Ahead
  • New - Dress for Sucess
  • The 12 Bad Habits that Hold Good People Back
  • Reaching Your Development Goals
  • Preparing for the Behavior-based Interview
  • Who's running Your Career?
  • Resumes in Cyberspace
  • Electronic Job Search Revolution: Do What you Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Typing


Building Your Network

  • People Power: 12 Principles to Enrich Your Business, Career, and Personal Networks
  • How to Speak and Listen Effectively


Audio CDs:

  • How to Connect in 90 Seconds or Less
  • Life Matters: Creating A Dynamic Balance of Work, Family, Time & Money
  • The 5 Essential People Skills


Link to OED Library listing

Contact : Organzational Development

gderosa@scgov.net

















































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SCG Classes (1 hour each, offered by Guidance Resources)

Managing Change

  • Living with Change
  • Stress: A Way of Life or a Fact of Life?
  • Getting it All Done: Managing Time, Priorities and Deadlines

Career Planning

  • How to Make a Habit of Success
  • It's in the Attitude: Productivity and Attitude
  • Lifelong Learning for Professional Success and Personal Enjoyment
  • Where Are You Going? Goal Setting for Personal Sucess at Work
  • Changing Fields: Where to Start

Building Your Network

  • Growing Your Network


Financial Planning

  • Using FRS to Plan for Your Retirement

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Note: Course offerings change frequently. Check TRAC for the current classes.






























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E-Learning (computer based training)


SCG Computer-based Training:
(click on the link above to go to the CBT information area and the registration form)
  • Building Relationships Series
  • Career Development (videos): Been There, Done That, Now What?
  • Managing Change: Refocusing Yourself
  • Interview Skills
  • Retirement Planning
  • Stress Management

Managing Stress (you do not have to sign up for this class; just click on the link below)

University of Florida - Online Stress Management Workshop 
This seven-part series on managing stress has been designed to allow you to listen to each part individually.
Lessons five, six and seven contain three relaxation exercises to help calm your mind and body.

 


Contact :
TPM Service Center,
861-5353 or via e-mail
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Web Links

Managing Change

Guidance Resources (to login use this ID:   IU4363X ) 
Includes resources on financial planning, stress management, legal resources, career planning, and family support.
http://www.guidanceresources.com/

Layoff Self-Defense: Six Steps to Protect Yourself and Your Income   NEW
A 15 minutes guide to taking care of yourself now, including many proactive steps to be prepared for an unexpected job loss.
http://www.job-hunt.org/guides/layoff-self-defense.pdf

How to Cope with Change 
Harvard Management article on coping with change during these turbulant times.
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hmu/2009/01/helping-employees-cope-with-ch.php


Managing Stress

University of Florida - Online Stress Management Workshop 
This seven-part series on managing stress has been designed to allow you to listen to each part individually.
Lessons five, six and seven contain three relaxation exercises to help calm your mind and body.

Career Planning

DBM Career Succession Search Guide
Login ID: fall
Login Password: election
(Note: ID and Password will change each month)
DPM's Personal Brand Plan Guide, is more than 300 comprehensive pages of strategic advice on every aspect of your transition with a thorough explanation of the DPM process.

Career Journal

The Wall Street Journal’s career web site, includes resources and links to job boards, resume writing advice, networking opportunities, and much more.

http://www.careerjournal.com/


Rebecca Smith's eResumes & Resources
Step-by-step primer for crafting and using electronic resumes effectively. Site addresses a variety of electronic resume formats for different circumstances It also provides links to sites that accept resume posting, a resume gallery .and focused lists of other on line career sites.
http://www.eresumes.com/


The Riley Guide
This website has a section on "How to Use the Internet in Your Job Search" including the following topics:  Can't think of Keywords? - Selecting the Right Sites -  Managing Your Time Online -Suggested Reading for your Job Search - Go Through the 4 Online Activities.
http://www.rileyguide.com/jobsrch.html


Building Your Network

Quintessential Careers

The ultimate career, job, and college site, offering comprehensive free expert career and job-hunting advice (through articles, tools, tips, samples, and tutorials), as well as links to all the best job sites.

http://www.quintcareers.com/career_networking_myths.html



Money Matters 101 / Networking
The networking portion of this website describes benefits of networking, common fears, tips and guidelines, and networking events.
http://www.moneymatters101.com/networking/relationship.asp


Financial Planning

Community Housing Trust
An independent, non-profit organization whose mission is "To create opportunities and foster stewardship of permanently affordable housing for low to moderate-income families and individuals."


Guidance Resources (to login use this ID:   IU4363X ) 
Includes resources on financial planning, stress management, legal resources, career planning, and family support.
http://www.guidanceresources.com/


Financial Planning Toolkit
Total know how for your financial future. Includes topics such as understanding your personal tolerance for risk, goal setting, staying the course and preparing for retirement.
http://www.finance.cch.com/financetoc.asp

FRS: Florida Retirement System
Employees under the state retirement system can go here to maximize their FRS programs and plans.You can also get help with financial planning. http://www.myfrs.com/content/index.html