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Chris Croft is a business coach with over 20 years’ experience teaching entrepreneurs and leaders worldwide. His specialty is making complex ideas simple, useful, and even fun. What does success in your career really mean? For some people it means promotion and a bigger salary. For others it means job security, enjoying their work, making a difference, or finding the right balance between career and life. In reality, career success looks different for everyone and understanding what success means to you is the first step toward achieving it. In this practical and thought-provoking course, Chris Croft shares the strategies, behaviours, and career tactics that help professionals succeed inside organisations. Drawing on decades of experience working across companies of different sizes and industries, Chris explains how careers actually work inside real workplaces, not just how we think they should work. You’ll explore how organisations operate, how promotions really happen, and how to position yourself so that you become the obvious candidate when opportunities appear. The course covers everything from defining your personal version of success to developing the habits and skills that make people promotable. You’ll learn how to manage relationships with colleagues and bosses, build strong professional networks, and avoid the common career pitfalls that derail talented people. You’ll also explore practical frameworks such as: • The four career paths within organisations • The SPVEM goal framework for powerful career goals • The PEAR model of promotion potential • How to balance achievement and quality of life • Strategies for navigating office politics and organisational dynamics This course also explores the importance of visibility, communication, relationships, and reputation within organisations, all essential ingredients for long-term career success. By the end of the course, you’ll have a clearer picture of where you want your career to go and a practical toolkit to help you get there. Whether you want to climb the corporate ladder, develop specialist expertise, or simply build a career that you genuinely enjoy, this course will help you design a career path that works for you.

Syllabus

Introduction - What Success Means

In this first section let's review what your goals currently are and tweak them to be practical and grounded. Then think about how you want to balance happiness and achievement in your life and how important money is to you.

Personal Qualities and Tactics

This section is full of practical skills you'll need to master in order to excel in your career. Learn about communication, personality types and assertiveness.

Organisational Positioning

Understanding, and changing, your position within the organisation you work for is vital. You'll learn how to make sure you are perceived by your superiors as competent and reliable, as well as evolving your job scope to take on additional responsibility and interesting tasks.

Planning and Making Career Moves

Whether or not you are currently considering a career move, keeping your contacts up to date and your qualifications ever changing is very important. Let's assess here whether you'd like to move, whether you should move, and how to go about achieving it.

Skills Required For Maximum Performance

Here we look at commercial business skills which will take your career potential that extra step. For example, management skills, presentation skills and project management.