Career Essentials

It's becoming increasingly important that you take charge of your career, that you develop a plan for your working life and map out the action steps that will take you there. A bit of groundwork will significantly increase your chances of reaching your ultimate career aim (whether that's as CEO of a top company, or owner of your own business, or doing a series of satisfying creative projects).

Get to know your talents, your strengths and your skills, work out how to leverage them and where to work on polishing them and you will shine, even in turbulent times.

Know where you are heading and steer a strong course, and you won't get tossed about (as much). You won't drift in and out of jobs, just because they were in front of you and you will know exactly what your next move will be.

As client Annabel Tan said, 'The top 3 things I got from coaching with Joanna were clear identification of my top skills and values and a great sounding board. The greatest benefit was [Joanna's] no-nonsense approach and focus on my challenges at every session.'

What's in the program?

In our career essentials program, you will:

  • Identify and understand your strengths and skills
  • Work with polishing your strengths and dealing with your challenges
  • Map your talents and match them to the needs of the workplace
  • Look at your overall career aims
  • Develop a plan for getting where you want to go (and for sticking with it when the going gets tough)

The program is very interactive, using a series of processes. The program allows time for discussion about concepts so that participants can fully engage with and understand the material.

Contact us now if you're ready to take charge of your own career.

  • 'Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.' - Ed McCabe
  • 'Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.' - Samuel Johnson
  • 'To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.' - Soren Kierkegaard
  • 'To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.' - Joseph Chilton Pearce Oliver
  • 'We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.' - Joseph Campbell
  • 'A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.' - Frank Capra

Why choose a WorkInColour Career Essentials program?

Joanna Maxwell has been coaching for over a decade, but she also knows what it is like to make a career in the corporate world... and to feel stifled and trapped even after having 'made it'. Check out about us for more of that story.

There is nothing 'airy fairy' about our approach. We draw on a number of tools and models, tailor-made for you and your needs. There is no forcing clients to fit our paradigm at WorkInColour... you've probably had more than enough of that already at work!

Here's what clients say

'I found it really powerful in gaining practical tools to help me take positive steps in defining my chosen path, my goals and my vision and how to implement them - as opposed to some more 'airy fairy' articles I have read.'Roger Lamb

'I thoroughly enjoyed it. Joanna is intelligent, generous and very good-humoured - I've become a fan.'Bill S.

'Working with Joanna is fun - she has a great sense of humour! She is also extremely creative, and able to work with me in a way that facilitates and encourages my creativity. Together we have been designing structures within which I have been able to be really creative and no longer waste a lot of energy by not being connected to my life direction.'MR