Promising Futures Inc. Corporate Services

In-person Services

• Career Development 

• Outplacement 

• Mergers 

• Working with difficult employees 

• Leadership development 

• College Planning Programs 

• Assessments offered by Promising Futures

• Workshops offered by Promising Futures 

Promising Futures Products and Services:

MyFuture Online Career Center for Business Organizations

Do you have the right people in the right place?  Future earnings measure the true value of your company and future earnings depend on attracting and retaining a vibrant work force.

• Studies of motivators from the American Society of Training and Development and the Wall Street Journal indicate that employees value education, career development, and meaningful work over money!

Here is how you can keep those "rainmakers" in place and help them raise your profits.The MyFuture online career center brings those activities that motivate workers right to every employee's PC - at work and at home!  Here are some reasons to use the online center:

• Provides you with a simple tool to give employees making career and educational decisions.
  
  
• Links employee goals to departmental and corporate goals.
  
  
• You can offer an added benefit to employees who are concerned about helping their children plan for and prepare for college.  The online guidance office component provides college admissions, financial aid and home schooling information and resources.
  
  
• Secure passwords to the MyFuture online career center allow accessibility on the Internet 24/7.
  
  
• One stop source for current Human Resources information.  We do the searching for you so you only have to visit one web site.

Costs:  Your virtual, on-line career center compares to the investment you make for an inexpensive EAP program.  Additional services include:

• Staff training on how to use MyFuture including:
  • The how's of - introducing/announcing the site to employees, administering passwords and accessing content and technical support
  • What specific resources, workshops and other tools are on the Promising Futures web site to help your employees
  • How the site can best be used by your company HR, OD or other designated staff to increase employee career satisfaction and success within the company or organization
  • How the site can be integrated with company and organizational performance goals and employee evaluations

Promising Futures Products and Services:

Career Coaching and Leadership Development Services:

As an additional service to assist you and your employees, we offer coaching services. The process of coaching moves people through a process that involves taking responsibility for their behaviors, focusing on what matters to them in the work that they do, and building the networks they need to succeed as professionals.  The steps typically involve:

• Identifying the gaps between current behaviors and the desired behaviors
• Setting goals and a timeline for improvement
• Assessing the resources and the liabilities that can build or hinder success
• Building an action plan with benchmarks that will take the employee through the course of coaching.

Cost: Delivering our services over the Internet and over the phone makes coaching a very affordable service. Three months of executive coaching & leadership development available by phone includes all assessment and supervisory consultations.  The program will be customized for each employee.  You should budget about 1/3 the cost of an in-person program.  Our staff holds advanced degrees in career development and related areas, as well as national career certification - please call for details!

Promising Futures Products and Services:

MyFuture Online Career Center for Educational Institutions

• Are you faced with budget woes and are looking for new and efficient ways to assist students with their college planning?
• Do you want to get parents or mentors more involved with their students?
• Would you like to be able to access career, education, and financial aid resources from one easy online location?

MyFuture is an online career center that can make your life easier, provide a quality adjunct service to your office and help you to keep parents and mentors involved.  Our staff of Career Counselors, National Certified Career Counselors and Career Coaches created a site with students in mind. Our years of experience working in secondary and higher education provided the foundation.  We understand how difficult it is to help every student, meet budget demands and be there for everyone.

• Passwords to the MyFuture online career center accessible on the Internet 24/7
• Access for your guidance or college career center staff to highly credentialed Career Counselors, National Certified Career Counselors and Career Coaches via email
• Can integrate into your state's career development curriculum as well as relate it other subject areas!
• A one-day training seminar (for an additional fee) - for the designated guidance, career or other designated staff to learn:
  • The how's of - introducing/announcing the site to students, faculty and parents, administering of passwords and how to access content and technical support
  • What specific resources, workshops and other tools are on the PF web site to help your students and staff including classroom activities
  • How the site can best be used by your students and staff to provide the tools for successful educational and career planning

Most schools will pay 1/3 the cost for a password for each student than you will pay for a consumable workbook.  And as long as you maintain the subscription, the password can take them through college!

Other services are available:

• Materials for mailings to parents, students and staff to let them know about the web site
• Additional lots of 500 passwords

• Training to maximize the effectiveness of MyFuture

MyFuture Online Career Center for Career Professionals

$25.00 - Dinner and a movie or satisfying career?  You decide..

• Are you thinking about changing jobs?
• Do you need to create or update your resume?
• Are you a stay at home parent looking to return to the workplace?
• Do you want to start or finish an undergraduate or graduate degree?
• Interested in growing with your company?

A one-year subscription to the MyFuture online career center can change your life.

• You have access to highly credentialed Career Counselors, National Certified Career Counselors and Career Coaches via email

• The MyFuture online career center is available to you 24/7 and includes a resume template, a goal setting system to help you stick to and achieve your goals and the resources you need for an effective job search or educational plan
• Plus, you can download our booklets: Resumes That Get Results, No Job Take Control, Job Search Strategies, It's Never Too Late to be a College Student, and Chaos, Careers and Creativity.  This $35.00 value is free to our subscribers!

Are you wondering why we offer our services for such a low price?

"We believe you should love the work that you do, be as skilled as possible in doing it and help others along the way."

For years our career counseling staff has worked to assist individuals in non-profit settings.  We always took pride in providing a quality and efficient career service.  Now we have answers and we want to continue to share our knowledge with you.  We understand how difficult it is to make financial ends meet and when you need career services the most, you are often at a point when you can least afford it.  We have been there ourselves.  We keep our costs down by teaching you "how to fish" instead of us "fishing for you". Our business is built on referrals so if you like us, we would appreciate it if you spread the word!

Need More Help?

Hire one of our career coaches to assist you.  We are available to you via phone and email.  Your $85.00 per hour rate includes a certified coach or career counselor and free email contact.   Most of our clients utilize 3 hours of coaching time in order to achieve their goals.  However, we customize our services to fit your needs. 

In-Person Services

            Providing Career Development for Employees

Employees need to know that they are growing.  In fact, numerous surveys reveal that workers value career growth and learning over salary and benefits!  We can help you build a program that helps employees identify the opportunities they have inside the company so that they apply themselves with energy and enthusiasm.

The Service Includes:

1.  The availability of workshops in person & on-line (other workshops are available, please see our list of workshops for a summary of each workshop):

2.  A choice of assessments (other assessments are available, please see our list of assessments for a summary of each assessment):

3.  Career coaching in person, on the phone, and via the Internet

4. P assword protected Subscription to our virtual career center at www.promisingfutures.com

5.  Downloadable print resource such as It's Never Too Late for College, and Career Success Academy

Employee Transition Services for those seeking or facing Separation, Retirement, or Outplacement.

Losing valued colleagues is never easy, even when it is necessary.  We can help you build a program that helps employees identify the opportunities they have outside the company.  Our programs help those that are leaving and those that are left behind.

Outplacement Services

1.  An orientation for managers to prepare for an upcoming layoff and to help them feel that they are at least offering their departing colleagues something besides disappointing news.

2.  An initial contact with the departing employee by our staff on the day of separation. The initial contact also provides an informal assessment of the workers well being and information about the support and services that are available.

3.  Research and resume development services.

4.  Career coaching in person, on the phone, and via the Internet.

5.  Suggested Workshops (other workshops are available, please see our list of workshops for a summary of each workshop):

6.  Suggested Assessments (other assessments are available, please see our list of assessments for a summary of each assessment):

Employee Transition Services for Employees Assimilated into a new corporate structure -

Employees who suddenly find themselves working for a new company through mergers or acquisitions often experience a variety of emotions ranging from resentment and fear to relief and excitement.  What happens when two cultures merge?  Will the result mean that the new company still has the workforce it needs to succeed?  How does the new leadership discover the depth of the new talent pool?  How can the new company retain the "rain-makers?"

Services for companies going through a MERGER or Acquisition:

1. Suggested Workshops (other workshops are available, please see our list of workshops for a summary of each workshop):

2. Suggested Assessments (other workshops are available, please see our list of assessments for a summary of each assessment):

3.      Career Coaching: in-person, on the phone and via Internet

4.      Resume development

5.      Website at www.promisingfutures.com

Coaching Difficult People

Everyone has his or her gifts, even if those gifts may not always be as obvious as we might like.  Challenging employees represent a considerable investment.  It is almost always more cost effective to repair than to replace, and we have had good success bringing difficult people back on line. 

Leadership Development for Managers

The process of delegating responsibility to employees so that they understand what needs to be done in order to anticipate problems and invent solutions never ends.  Our programs help workers become managers and managers become leaders.

        Help managers to become leaders as they learn to

    Communicate the company's needs & objectives to employees

    Increase their ability to visualize what could be & what it would take to realize that vision

    Build their capacity to influence others as they learn to become effective internal consultants

    Turn a diverse workforce into a team

    Lead group activities such as workshops, presentations & seminars contribution matters to the company - that they do make a difference!

       Help managers recover from a rocky start

    Managers with strong technical skills but little leadership experience

    Managers who find they need to play a consultant's role in order to lead a group with advanced degrees, strong technical skills & needy egos.

    Managers that have found themselves in some difficulty & now need to "put their house in order."

Change Management

Leadership Development

Strategic Planning

Team Development