You asked and we listened! This month sees the first of our new releases of Careers Club for members.
We have developed some new functionality and improved the user experience to ensure you gain the most out of our portal. We are now looking to further improve the interaction and present you with more options and resources to enable you to enhance your career and your reach.
Find out what is new below:
LEARNING MODULES
This is our biggest enhancement yet, you may have already noticed the new learning courses on the site, but now we are ready to give you the full details.
We are giving members the opportunity to partake in online training courses from accredited leadership & management training course providers all at your fingertips. Each course is designed for members at various stages in their career and offer practical advice and formal learning.
Highlights:
- Take our online courses at any time. Start and pause whenever it suits you.
- New courses are accredited with the Institute of Commercial Management
- Earn achievements for each course and download certificates from your learnings
- Blend of webinars, workbooks, quizzes and visual aids to keep you motivated.
Current courses
- Dealing with Conflict
- The Psychology of Successful Women
- Effective Communication Process
Coming Soon
- Finance for non-financial managers
- Negotiation Skills
- Confidence
- NLP & Body Language
We are busy now developing new courses and will publish these as soon as they are ready.
SKILLS
Following feedback from members we decided to reconstruct the way we focus on skillsets.
We are now focusing on the three main areas members are interested in and have made this easier to navigate.
- CORE SKILLS – Such as confidence, career planning, personal brand
- LEADERSHIP SKILLS – Such as dealing with politics, negotiation, conflict and strategy
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT – Such as managing change, returning to work, CV advice
As we add more and more resources you will be able to find this simply and effectively within our menu.
EVENTS
We have made our calendar smarter and even more helpful!
As we add new events (online meetings and quarterly network meet ups), you will find these on our new calendar.
Highlights
- Ability to click and RSVP
- See who else is attending
- Add event straight to your local calendar (Outlook, Apple Mail, Google Calendar etc).
- Be kept updated on event news directly.
- Use our calendar to obtain the best directions to the venue
- Check on your Dashboard, what events you are attending and change your status.
More events are currently being put together but we know you will not want to miss out on these so stay tuned for further updates over the coming weeks for our 2016 events.
We felt that members were not getting the most out of the portal so have re-designed your dashboard. Now you have a tabular format to the key areas of your growth. To enhance the UX (User Experience) we have retained some of the legacy components such as Skills Tracker but will be migrating these across to our learning modules in the next few months.
Here you will see:
- Your profile
- Your achievements
- Your goals & ambitions
- Events you have signed up to
- Your bookmarked articles and resources.
WHAT IS NEXT?
Our development team are now developing new online courses and are looking to also introduce new resources for the community and for mobile devices. We will also be improving our members directory to give you further opportunities to connect with other members. Whilst our membership team are looking to finalise the organising of your Networking Events for 2016 and will be sending you all regular newsletters giving you more information.
If you have any ideas or requests, please get in contact with us today.