About this course

This self-paced career development course will help you identify your strengths and interests and align your passions with a viable career path. Through guided self-reflection and instruction, you will create a career vision statement that identifies how you hope to use your skills and interests to focus your career. With this insight, you’ll select a career path that aligns with your personality, preferences, and goals. Finally, you’ll create a professional development plan that will help you achieve those goals.

This is the first course in Fullbridge’s four-part Career Development XSeries, designed to prepare you to succeed in the modern workplace.

What you’ll learn

  • How to recognize your workstyle preferences, including the way you relate to others in the workplace
  • How to source professional development feedback to become a more effective workplace contributor
  • How to recognize different organizational structures and their business purposes
  • How to identify roles and organizations that complement your strengths
  • How to define your ambitions in a career vision statement
  • How to create a professional development plan that will help you achieve your career vision

Meet Your Instructor

Jim Pautz

Vice President of Coaching at Fullbridge
Jim is the Vice President of Coaching at Fullbridge. Previously, he was a senior admissions officer for Harvard College. In addition to his coaching experience with Fullbridge participants, Jim serves as a resident tutor focusing on career advice at Currier House, one of Harvard College’s twelve upper-class residential communities. He holds an AB, EdM, and MBA from Harvard.

About This Course:

What do you do when you encounter a problem? This self-paced career development course will help you think critically and creatively to solve problems and design solutions. These skills will set you apart from peers and make you a sought-after leader and teammate.

This is the third course in Fullbridge’s four-part Career Development XSeries, designed to prepare you to succeed in the modern workplace.
 

What You’ll Learn:

  • How to frame problems using a systematic, repeatable process
  • How to develop and test solutions using the 80/20 rule
  • How to identify user needs and develop solutions to meet them
  • How to use design thinking to generate ideas and discover creative solutions
  • How to plan and execute primary and secondary research
  • How to design and build effective surveys

Meet Your Instructor:

Jim Pautz

Vice President of Coaching at Fullbridge
Jim is the Vice President of Coaching at Fullbridge. Previously, he was a senior admissions officer for Harvard College. In addition to his coaching experience with Fullbridge participants, Jim serves as a resident tutor focusing on career advice at Currier House, one of Harvard College’s twelve upper-class residential communities. He holds an AB, EdM, and MBA from Harvard.

About this course

In many careers, the foundation of your professional success is your ability to inform, persuade, and build relationships at work. In this self-paced career development course, you’ll practice communicating, forming teams, and planning projects in a variety of contexts. By the end of the course, you will have the skills and knowledge you need to become influential in the workplace.

This is the second course in Fullbridge’s four-part Career Development XSeries, designed to prepare you to succeed in the modern workplace.

What you’ll learn

  • How to determine the most appropriate format for different messages
  • How to use top-down thinking to structure your communications
  • How to manage conflict in a professional and appropriate manner
  • How to write clear, concise professional communications, including emails and calendar invitations
  • How to design clear and persuasive PowerPoint presentations
  • How to achieve team synergy by using the forming, storming, norming, and performing methodology
  • How to scope, plan, execute, and reflect on projects
  • How to use project-planning tools to track and execute your projects

Meet Your Instructors

Jim Pautz

Vice President of Coaching at Fullbridge
Jim is the Vice President of Coaching at Fullbridge. Previously, he was a senior admissions officer for Harvard College. In addition to his coaching experience with Fullbridge participants, Jim serves as a resident tutor focusing on career advice at Currier House, one of Harvard College’s twelve upper-class residential communities. He holds an AB, EdM, and MBA from Harvard.