Women’s Forum: Discover the 5 Keys of Developing Your Career

Are you a professional women who is struggling to progress your career as far or as fast as you would like to? Maybe you do not feel able to contribute to your full potential and are not receiving the recognition you seek? You are not alone. Very many women within financial services (and elsewhere) find it hard to breakthrough to more senior roles and leadership positions. You may also be interested in supporting the development of other women within your organisation.

Two of the Key Challenges for Women’s Career Development

1. Women often do not have an authentic personal brand

2. Many women consider that simply doing a “good job” will be sufficient for promotion and do not seek the sponsors or develop the networks so essential for success.

Make a SHIFT

To address these issues and other challenges, Catherine has developed a five step approach – the SHIFT Framework.

S = Strengthen your presence

H = Harness your potential

I = Initiate supportive relationships

F = Focus on strategy

T = Think like a leader

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session you will have:

• Learnt how the 5 key dimensions of Thinking Choices Limited's SHIFT framework (below) can help you breakthrough to the next level of your career.

• Discovered the importance of developing a personal brand and how to do this

• Explored the value of having sponsors and how to develop these

• Identified how networking can help your career progress and ways to enhance your networking skills

• Developed an action plan to implement your learning

Catherine Cuffley Biography

Catherine Cuffley is an executive coach and founder of Thinking Choices Limited (www.thinkingchoices.com). She specialises in working with organisations in the City of London to help them to develop their women leaders. She works with senior professional women in insurance companies, banks, management consultancies and law firms etc. to support them in achieving their next leadership position. This may be a place on the board or indeed their first leadership position and everything in between.

Catherine is the author of the forthcoming book, SHIFT: Insights From a City Coach on Succeeding as a Woman Leader and she also speaks at conferences and events, such as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) on the application of neuroscience to leadership, amongst other topics.

Catherine has spent many years in the City in a range of Human Resources, Learning and Development and management consultancy roles. She has repeatedly seen the way in which many talented women in City organisations are not quite reaching the more senior positions they seek. This is deeply frustrating for the women themselves and means the organisations are wasting valuable resources. Catherine’s mission is to support women in fulfilling their potential and maximising their contribution whilst enabling organisations to optimise their female talent. A real win win.