TEACH THEM HOW TO BE IN CONTROL OF THEIR CAREER DEVELOPMENT
CAREER DEVELOPMENT IS A SKILL… AND YET WE DON’T TEACH ANYONE HOW TO DO IT
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.
And you want them to feel more confident, proactive, and engaged in their careers, and more invested in the future of your business.
The fact of the matter is this:
Your young professionals want to build engaging, fulfilling and exciting careers, and you, as an organisation want to improve engagement, retention, and progression of your young professionals and early-career talent.
But something isn’t working.
Is that sounding a bit too familiar? Don’t worry, I can help.
At What Happens Now®, there is one simple belief…
The provision of SPECIALIST careerS SUPPORT should not be reserved for SLTs and the C-Suite, and that teachING young professionals THE SKILLS THEY NEED to FEEL IN CONTROL OF THEIR CAREER DEVELOPMENT Is a key step in future proofing your business.
BECAUSE Receiving CAREER DEVELOPMENT support matters to everyone…
54% of immediate retention is associated with the employee's belief that their company contributes to their development
— Culture Amp, 2022
47% of Gen Z workers believe they receive better career advice from ChatGPT than from their managers
— Workplace Intelligence & INTOO, 2023
70% of individuals who received coaching reported improved work performance, communication skills, and career prospects
— ICF, 2009
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 navigate the contemporary world of work:
Take Control of Your Career Development
Set Yourself Up for Career Success
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.
WHAT HAPPENS NOW®’s SIGNATURE WORKSHOPS
tAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CAREER DEVELOPMENT
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.
Learning outcomes:
👉🏻 How to identify your career vision
👉🏻 How to build actionable career goals
👉🏻 How to break decision paralysis and embrace action
👉🏻 How to drive your own development towards progression and promotions
SET YOURSELF UP FOR CAREER SUCCESS
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.
Learning outcomes:
👉🏻 Understanding of the contemporary career landscape
👉🏻 How to embrace a person-led approach to career development
👉🏻 How to embrace change and use a curious mindset
👉🏻 How to be more visible at work and in your network
👉🏻 How to adopt an adaptable and resilient career mindset
HOW TO MAKE NETWORKING FEEL LESS SCARY
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.
Learning outcomes:
👉🏻 Understanding why networking matters
👉🏻 How to identify and access your network
👉🏻 How to feel more confident networking
👉🏻 How to have meaningful networking conversations
HOW TO SHOW YOUR VALUE AT WORK
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.
Learning outcomes:
👉🏻 How to identify your strengths and value drivers within your role
👉🏻 How to build a clear personal value proposition
👉🏻 How to track and communicate your impact with confidence
👉🏻 How to position yourself for new opportunities and progression
BUILD BETTER RELATIONSHIPS AT WORK
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.
Learning outcomes:
👉🏻 Understanding stakeholder management and why it matters
👉🏻 How to manage up and build strong relationships with your manager
👉🏻 How to adapt your communication style for different audiences
👉🏻 How to strengthen collaboration and teamwork across teams
HOW TO BE A LEADER (WITHOUT MANAGING PEOPLE)
In 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.
Learning outcomes:
👉🏻 How to define your role within your career, team and organisation
👉🏻 How to 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.
👉🏻 Identifying actionable ways that you can show up as a leader in your role and in every project
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, Deputy President at The Insurance Institute of Manchester
Looking for something bespoke?
Let’s collaborate together to understand where your team is at, what they need and in turn, I will create a bespoke workshop to support your team’s development.
Topics for workshops 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.
What participants say after the workshop
“Caroline's workshop was simple, but useful. Two things that stuck with me, make yourself visible, and remember you’re not a tree. If you’re not growing, it’s on you to do something about it.”
“I've always thought networking was something I'd be bad at until today. Thank you for making it feel like something that I shouldn’t be afraid of.”
“This is a great program! I wish I had something like this when I first started my career. ”
“The session was wonderful, really inspiring and thought provoking. You said that the start if you could go away with 1 thing that would be an achievement, I went away with a lot more! ”
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 5–10 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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Packages start from £500. We offer flexible pricing based on project type and complexity. 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.
We can talk through your current challenges, your priorities, and identify the most relevant sessions or design a programme for your team.