SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Cultivating True Livelihood:
Work in the 21st Century
Resources for Activity-Based Placement

Overview

Cultivating True Livelihood provides all the materials you will need to construct a multi-faceted, comprehensive employment service program. These materials were designed to make your work easier, more effective and altogether more engaging, as you foster people's development of the skills, strategies and attitudes necessary to find their way in the fast-paced work world of the 21st century.

Cultivating True Livelihood is a program of experiential activities that can help work seekers develop achievable personal visions of fulfilling and meaningful livelihoods now and into the future.

With over 140 activities to draw on, this program provides a rich array of tools and resources for effectively supervising and evaluating an individual's work search. It's unique activity-based approach empowers job-seekers to take control of their own job searches. Implemented in a "job club" format, with a group of job seekers, it makes tremendous use of the power of group support, group accountability and peer reinforcement.

Never before has there been a more comprehensive and practical resource for employment professionals to meet their placement goals. This library of activities puts in the hand of job seekers the information, insight and inspiration to conduct their own job search. For those who use this revolutionary concept of activity-based placement, Cultivating True Livelihood will change the face of employment services forever.

Topics

Among other topics, the seminar will include:

• An overview of the changes in the business world as they relate to hiring and the employment relationship.
• Distinctions between the mindset of, benefits to and strategies for a "21st Century Livelihood" versus traditional employment.
• Cultivating the spirit to work in the job seekers by keeping them fully participative in an intelligent, probative and well-balanced work search.
• Broadening perspective on how to expand client services to increase job placement results through activity-based services.
• Assisting applicants in creating new employment opportunities through the use of employment proposals.

Course Content

The Cultivating True Livelihood library contains the following course materials:

• Course 1: The Spirit to Work: Fostering Hope and Shifting Perspective

• Course 2: Knowing Thyself: Assets, Strengths and Choices

• Course 3: Personal Power: Responding to Challenges

• Course 4: Work Search Planning: The New Millennium

• Course 5: Tools for the Journey: Proposals, Resumes and Correspondence

• Course 6: Researching Options and Opportunities

• Course 7: Contacting Employers: Takin' It to the Streets

• Course 8: Interviewing with Ease: Mastering the Art of Self Presentation

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Materials

Program Curriculum: Cultivating True Livelihood
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Who Should Attend

Cultivating True Livelihood, with its practical tools for "activity-based placement" is a new way of doing business for employment and training programs. It is a comprehensive program for services to job seekers. Ideally, organizations should be represented at all staffing levels  - from administrators to front-line employees.

Training Duration

Full seminars, covering the entire curriculum usually span 5 full days of training in which attendees receive an intensive orientation to the 140 activities and exercises that constitute the Cultivating True Livelihood program. Segments of the program can be tailored fit the needs of a particular organization and delivered in one or two-day format.

More Information On This Seminar...

Interested in having Denise conduct a Cultivating True Livelihood seminar as in-service training for your staff? Or as a hosted event for your community? Please contact us for details at info@diversityworld.com.

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