CAREER DEVELOPMENT IS A SKILL
I bet that you have one of THESE 3 problems:
You have talented young professionals who are great at doing their jobs but when it comes to developing their careers, they expect you to do all of the heavy lifting.
You’re struggling to find development that genuinely resonates with them and sticks beyond the training session.
You want them to feel more confident, proactive, and engaged in their careers, and more invested in the future of your business but you can’t make them feel engaged.
Am I wrong?
Didn’t think so.
I’ve spent thousands of hours coaching young professionals on their careers and they all say the same thing:
They want to build engaging, fulfilling and exciting careers. They want to work and they want to feel like their organisation is as invested in their growth as they are.
And when I talk to organisations, you all say the same thing:
You want to improve engagement, retention, and progression of your young professionals and early-career talent.
So where’s the gap?
You’re teaching them how to do the job (and I get why), but you aren’t teaching them how to build a career.
And as a result, your young people end up feeling stuck in their careers because they lack the tools to navigate their development and so, rather than seeing their future as with you, they start to wonder if the grass is greener…
This where we come in.
YOUR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS CARE ABOUT THEIR CAREERS, AND SO SHOULD YOU
94% of employees say they would stay at a company longer if it invested in their professional development
— LinkedIn, 2024
47% of Gen Z workers believe they receive better career advice from ChatGPT than from their managers
— Workplace Intelligence & INTOO, 2023
70% of Gen Z employees develop skills to advance their careers at least once a week
— Deloitte, 2026
53% of young progessionals felt disappointed by the lack of personal development training upon starting new roles
— Robert Walters, 2023
only 46% of employees felt supported in their career growth by their organiSations
— Gartner, 2024
76% of coaching clients are managers, leaders and senior executives – and just 18% of them are under 35
— ICF, 2023
DON’T JUST TEACH THEM HOW TO DO THE JOB, TEACH THEM HOW TO BUILD A CAREER
I’ve spent thousands of hours talking to and working with young professionals, and one thing is obvious:
Your young talent want to do a great job.
They just don't know how to navigate the unwritten rules of the modern workplace and career development, so they end up feeling stuck. And when early-career talent feels stuck, they start to underperform, disengage, or leave, and then leadership chalks this up to a "lack of drive" or "poor culture fit."
But the reality? The key skills we all need to drive our own career development aren't taught in schools or universities.
And so we then have a problem.
You want them to win, they want to win, but they have a skills gap in knowing how to go about it.
And you can’t ignore this because, to be blunt, these are the skills that you need them to have in order for them to build a career with longevity within your organisation which, in turn, then supports your business’ ongoing growth and success.
This is why our signature workshop series aims to coach your young professionals to master the three key career development skills areas they need to feel in control of their careers:
CAREER OWNERSHIP
Teaching young professionals to take ownership over their career direction and their future in your organisation:
Take Control of Your Career Development
Be Curious and Embrace Change
CAREER VISIBILITY
Helping individuals communicate their value and build confidence in how they show up at work and professional settings:
How to Make Networking Feel Less Scary
How to Show Your Value at Work
CAREER INFLUENCE
Developing the relationship, communication, and leadership skills needed to maximise their potential and succeed at work:
Build Better Relationships at Work
How to Be a Leader (Without Managing People)
Our workshops are built on thousands of hours of working directly with young professionals and are designed around the real challenges they face day to day in your business - not just theory.
From building confidence and taking ownership of their development, to learning how to communicate their value and build strong relationships at work, every topic is designed to support both individual growth and organisational success.
Every workshop is grounded in organisational psychology and combines coaching tools with real-world examples to make the learning practical, relatable, and immediately useful, so your team can feel more confident, capable, and in control of their careers from day one.
We have just finished a series with Caroline for our new Emerging Professionals provision; I wanted to recommend her as a CPD supplier as she has injected a breath of fresh air into our young/emerging professionals CPD programme. All events have had fantastic feedback; all have been oversubscribed and very well attended. All sessions have prompted our members to make tangible changes and created thoughtful and engaging conversations, taking away simple things they can implement back at work.
Emma Ackers, President at The Insurance Institute of Manchester
WHAT HAPPENS NOW®’s SIGNATURE WORKSHOPS
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This session empowers your team to take control of their career development and explore how to tackle making big career decisions. This workshop will walk your team through how to navigate through decision paralysis, the pressures of making the “right” decision and reframes the process of career development to make it feel far more accessible. This workshop will guide your team through planning the next chapter of their careers and identifying their next steps in an engaging but relatable way.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Define their career vision
Write actionable career goals
Overcome decision paralysis and embrace action
Develop a framework to evaluate career progress and identify key next steps for growth
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This interactive session explores how to build a successful career in today’s workplace. Together, we lift the lid on the key career mindsets that your team needs to embrace in order to build successful careers in the contemporary career landscape. Packed with actionable tips, long term strategies and mindset shifts, this empowering workshop reframes career development in a relatable way that empowers them to take control of their career.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Define the definition of a modern career in the contemporary world of work
Implement key change frameworks to identify opportunity
Identify how to build authentic visibility at work
Build a curious, adaptable and resilient career mindset
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In this workshop, we will break down common misconceptions about networking and why we all tend to find the whole process a bit icky. This workshop will encourage your team to challenge their own preconceptions about networking and explore how networking can be used to enhance their own career development in a way that feels authentic to them. This workshop will walk your team through 3 ways that they can feel more confident networking and offers thought provoking ideas about how your team can begin to implement this today.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Recognise the importance of networking for career growth
Identify their key internal and external networks
Cultivate a confident networking mindset
Use networking frameworks to have meaningful conversations
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In this workshop, we support your team to understand how they can clearly articulate their contribution, communicate their impact, and build stronger career conversations with their manager. Many professionals work hard but struggle to communicate the value of their work or feel uncomfortable advocating for themselves. This workshop reframes how to talk about your achievements and contribution in a way that feels authentic and confident. Through practical exercises and relatable examples, your team will explore how to identify their strengths, track their impact, and position themselves for new opportunities and career progression.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Identify key strengths and value drivers
Draft a clear personal value proposition
Develop a framework to track and communicate impact
Evaluate strategic positioning for for new opportunities and progression
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This interactive session explores how building strong working relationships can support both individual success and team performance. Many professionals are technically strong but are never taught how to navigate workplace relationships, manage stakeholders, or communicate effectively across teams. This interactive session introduces practical strategies to help your team build trust, communicate more effectively, and collaborate confidently in cross-functional environments. By understanding what different stakeholders need and adapting their communication approach, participants will leave with actionable tools to strengthen relationships and influence outcomes at work.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Apply key stakeholder management frameworks
Identify ways to improve line manager relationships
Evaluate communication styles across different audiences
Facilitate stronger teamwork across day-to-day teams
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Item descriptionIn this workshop, we myth bust the common misconception that in order to be a leader at work, you have to be a manager or manage a team. In a relatable and authentic dialogue, we walk through the 6 ways that they can show up as leaders in their teams and in their own lives. This interactive session takes your team through different styles of leadership and guides them through how to start taking action today in beginning to implement leadership behaviours.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Define their role in role within their career, team and organisation
Apply Gallup’s 6 key leadership behaviours without managing a team: build relationships, develop people, lead change, inspire others, think critically, communicate clearly and create accountability.
Identify actionable ways that to show up as a leader in every project
I would definitely say that Caroline was amazing. She was very articulate, engaging and communicated her advice in a way that was both practical and easy to apply. What really stood out to me was how genuine and authentic she was. Having heard from other consultants and careers professionals, I found Caroline’s approach very refreshing because her advice felt personal, honest and experience-driven rather than rehearsed or generic. She offered a different perspective and made the session feel like a genuine conversation rather than a standard careers workshop. Her experience and insights were incredibly valuable, and I really appreciated how she created such an interactive, encouraging and motivating environment. I would definitely love to attend more workshops led by Caroline in the future.
Workshop attendee, FO Perspectives x Barclays Application Accelerator Academy
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING MORE BESPOKE?
Let’s collaborate together to understand where your team is at, what they need and in turn, I will create a bespoke session to support your team’s development.
Topics could include:
How to find your superpower (and own it)
Set yourself up for success in your new role
Confidence, gravitas and being taken seriously in your early career
Building influence without authority
Each workshop is rooted in organisational psychology and include coaching exercises and relatable examples to create accessible and practical training that feels super relevant to your team’s needed so that they can start taking action immediately.
Caroline has a very special ability to personalise the content and help attendees not only learn but apply it to their personal situation. her sessions are very engaging too.
Agbolade Oduniyi, FO Perspectives
Frequently Asked Questions
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These workshops are designed for young professionals in the early to mid stages of their careers - typically graduates, apprentices, and individuals within their first 0–10 years of work.
Whether it’s day 10 or year 10, there will always be one thing that each participant can take away and immediately apply.
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Each workshop is 45 mins in length with an additional 15 mins held for Q&A.
Workshops can also be combined into multi session learning programs.
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Workshops can be delivered online via Zoom or Teams or in person in your offices or at your event.
Each workshop can be booked as a one-off session or together as a learning program (if booking multiple sessions, you will be eligible for a 20% discount for bulk bookings).
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Each workshop is designed with an early careers audience in mind. The language and examples used are hand picked to land with your team. You can expect each session to include interactive activities, individual reflection and action-driven implementation of ideas so that your team can take the content and start improving their performance straight away.
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We offer flexible pricing based on session type (online vs in person), signature workshop vs bespoke session and is also the option to access bundle discounts on multi-session bookings. After an initial conversation, we’ll provide a transparent quote with no hidden costs.
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The goal of each workshop is that every participant leaves the session with at least one thing that they can do differently when they go to work on Monday. To support this, every learning point is broken down from high level concept through to in "what is the first step you can take?". This structure is designed to encourage participants to take action immediately and feel empowered to apply the concepts explored from the moment they leave the room.
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You can reach anytime via the contact form on this page or via email - caroline@whathappensnowcoaching.com.
LET’S CONNECT
If you’d like to explore how these workshops could support your team, I’d love to have a conversation.
If you have a session in mind, fantastic and if you’re not too sure, we can talk through your current challenges, your priorities, and identify the best approach for your team.