South Africa: Career St*ry
"Career Storm Navigator forms an integral part of the career and leadership development services that we offer both our organisational and private clients. With organisations, we use Career Storm Navigator to support career development initiatives with targeted groups as part of personal growth, talent management and leadeship development initiatives. CSN is helpful in addressing retention and engagement issues, supporting leadership coaching and development and as preparation for participants of our corporate mentoring programmes. For private clients, it forms part of our career planning and coaching processes particulary for those people who are undergoing career transitions or making important career and life decisions."
Company Facts
Head office:
Cape Town, South Africa
Primary business:
Career and leadership development solutions for organisations and individuals aimed at increasing organisational and personal effectiveness, resilience and learning.
Secondary business:
Private career coaching and counselling and corporate consulting in area of wellness and work-life balance.
Company details:
In case you would like to hear more of the use of CareerStorm Navigator, our consultants Beverley Whitehead and Veronica Royston, Registered Industrial and Organisational Psychologists with extensive senior level industry experience as well as experience working in private practice, will be pleased to share their experiences. Please feel free to email them, addresses are firstname.lastname@careerstory.co.za.
Career Story has successfully piloted CSN as part of a career development intervention with a multinational corporate client. A broader roll-out is planned for their new finanacial year. Their corporate and private clients experiences have, to date, been very positive.
The CSN's strongest asset: "It is contemporary and holistic, and facilitates deep thinking about career and life; the focus on practical action planning has been very valuable for our clients. It is experienced as "clarifying" and personally "validating" and can be used flexibly and across distances without the need for travel. We find the CSN process a valuable foundation for leadership development initiatives."
Customer cases:
Head: Strategy Unit for a listed South African short-term insurer:
"The process highlights choices for one to contemplate and makes career and life planning very tangible; it stimulates deeper thinking about your life and dreams and makes it clear that you can shape your future".
Director of a Cape Town based clothing manufacturer:
"It was very beneficial as it made me sit down and face the options of a new career with a very holistic approach. I think if I had been left to my own devises I would still not have 'found the time' to look deeper into different options. I feel that this approach is far more meaningful than doing psychometric testing, as it takes into consideration all aspects of your life"
Marketing Manager in the media industry:
"The process enables you to integrate head and heart and enables you to articulate it in a way that resonates. This exercise has reinforced my decision to move forward with my career - and choose a different path to the one I am currently on. It has also cemented for me the fundamentals to creating a happy and productive career path. This experience alone...of identifying so much of what makes me unique and in a way that contextualises my path till now...is awesome and so valuable to where I want to go."
Brewing and Utilities Engineer for a listed multinational beverage company:
"I found the experience very positive and enjoyable. It got me thinking and clarified my priorities. I have put practical action steps in place as a result of this process".
Financial Manager for a listed multinational beverage company:
"This process gave me a language to articulate who I am; to tell others what drives me."
Business Analyst with a global financial services organisation:
"CSN provided me with much needed structure in the process of career transitioning. It was a surprisingly cathartic experience for me. I regained confidence in my competencies, validated the importance of my values and dignity and revived my interests and their role in my life. CSN prompted me to undertake a journey of personal discovery in a non-judgmental context. The design and nature of CSN provided a structure for me to work through, without which, I may have still been dithering regarding my career options."