Scot Herrick

Scot offers various services associated with teaching career management to knowledge workers.

Contact Scot for any of these services: scot@scotherrick.com

On-site Workshop — Career Management Fundamentals

This one-day workshop will teach the fundamentals of career management. Topics include:

• Maximizing individual work performance
• Networking techniques
• Building a personal brand
• Working with management

While broader in scope than each individual subject, each participant will leave knowing the fundamental needs of career management and the next steps to complete for themselves.

Employee benefit: gaining the career management fundamentals for improving skills and marketability within the company.

Company benefit: employees who focus on the work and the mission using these techniques.

Cost: $1,500 plus expenses

On-site Workshop — Brilliant Basics to Maximize Work Performance for the Cubicle Warrior

This one-day workshop examines the brilliant basics needed to perform knowledge work. Often overlooked in career management teaching, how a person performs in their role right now is fundamental to other opportunities to advance.

Subjects taught:

• Goal Setting. Not just SMART goals, but how to build SMART goals for the employee and the manager so both win.
• Applying Goals to the Performance Review. How to set up the goals, update goals based on changing conditions, reviewing the metrics for keeping on track of the goal, and how to define the goal achievement to the performance rating.
• Productivity Framework. Setting up a system for tracking tasks and projects. Establishing a priority system for the work so it matches the department needs.
• Communicating with management. Communication skills, writing self-reviews and providing effective status reporting for accomplishments.

Employee benefit: Solid understanding of how to define, measure, track and communicate work done for themselves and management.

Company benefit: Clearer work requirements with faster completion of tasks.

Cost: $1,500 plus expenses

On-site Workshop — Networking for the Cubicle Warrior

This one-day workshop will provide multiple tips and techniques for knowledge workers on how to network effectively within and outside the company.

Subjects taught:

• What networking is — and what it is not. Many people confuse networking with people handing out business cards. Nothing could be further from the truth. This part explains what networking is and why it is important to do for the knowledge worker.
• Building a network. How to build networks. This includes inside the company as well as adding to networks from outside the company.
• Communicating with your network. Why you should communicate with your network. What to say when you communicate.
• Tools to build and preserve your network. A close look at social sites, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and how they can help build networks. In addition, tools you can use to maintain your network database.
• How consultants network as a networking model. Consultants network all the time. This will teach how employees can use this model for their own networking needs.

Employee benefit: Setting up and preserving a work network will significantly aid in their career.

Company benefit: Integration of current company tools within an overall networking framework for employees.

Cost: $1,500 plus expenses

On-site Workshop — Building a Personal Brand for the Cubicle Warrior

A Personal Brand is the view wanted by an employee to management and other potential team members. Or, in sales terms, what the “value proposition” is of the work done by the employee. With teamwork now done by employees across the planet, understanding and building a Personal Brand inside a company helps find the right people for the right project in the right role. This important one day workshop has employees building a Personal Brand and using it for career management.

Subjects taught:

• Personal Branding — The Need. Why Personal Brands are needed in the workplace now. What your Personal Brand is when you don’t think you have one. Corporate examples of Personal Branding used right now in the workplace.
• How to identify your best Personal Brand. Defining your skills and performance that identify your Personal Brand.
• How to build your Personal Brand. Building through what is available in your company to build your Personal Brand. Plus, building your Personal Brand using tools outside your company.
• Principles of good Personal Brand management. How to live your life on the front page of the newspaper. How everything that goes on the Internet stays on the Internet — and the affect of that on your Personal Brand.

Employee benefit: marketing your unique job skills and performance to best match to corporate work.

Company benefit: Each employee will understand their unique role in the company allowing management to assign people to the right role that maximizes the ability of the employee.

Cost: $2,000 plus expenses.

On-site Workshop — Working with Management for the Cubicle Warrior

The goal for every employee in working with management is to become a “trusted adviser.” When employees and management are trusted advisers, teams take their work to a higher level. This workshop explains the steps to build a trusted adviser relationship.

Subjects taught:

• Trusted adviser — the model for management relationships. Trusted Adviser defined and how this is a model for working with management.
• Delivery of work — the foundation for building trust. If you don’t deliver your work on time and done well, you can’t become trusted.
• Communicating with management. What and how you communicate with management is critical to a trusted adviser.
• Confidentiality — the highest value. When employees can keep confidential information provided by management confidential, a clearer understanding of the company direction and work takes place.

Employee benefit: Provide the capacity to be in a different place than the typical employee with management — one for the better.

Company benefit: Higher level team performance.

Cost: $2,500 plus expenses

Speaking Engagements

Scot can speak to audiences about these services subjects as well as the role the Internet is playing in career management.

Scot has spoken to groups of one to 800 — and speaking to one is far more challenging!

Cost: $1,500 plus expenses

Articles on Career Management

Scot has written over 400 articles about various career management subjects on his blog, Cube Rules. If you would like to have an article written about career management or Cubicle Warriors, please contact him.