New Avenues Services
New Avenues
New Avenues is a unique career management firm that brings two decades of experience to both corporate and individual clients seeking success in today’s rapidly shifting global business market.
Corporate leadership has taken on different direction in the last few years, it is more complex with higher expectations from key stakeholders, clients, and the workplace.
With a rare blend of corporate acumen, sensitivity, and passion for helping people find solutions, New Avenues principal Kim Thompson brings her skills as listener, analyst, coach, and strategic planner to leaders and individuals who are interested in career growth, understanding the complexities of today’s business market.
New Avenues understands how important career choices can be to both employers and employee’s well-being. Success in the workplace often means how employers assess talent and retain leaders.
We spend a huge part of our lives at work and getting the personal attention you need to make the right career decisions is critical.
The atmosphere of constant change paves the way for our opportunities and impacts family, finances, health, social responsibilities, leisure time, and overall lifestyle. Too much is at stake to leave career management and professional leadership development to circumstance or someone else. We make it our mission at New Avenues to work with clients one-on-one to provide the tools and emotional intelligence to navigate today’s rapidly changing marketplace.
Likewise, we understand how important organizational retooling can be to the health of a company competing in the changeable marketplace. To corporate leaders, this might mean overseeing a workplace reorganization, a speedier rate of technological development, or a shift in business structure. An ability to lead while learning and adapting is now more than ever a lifelong requisite to staying on track and competitive.
With a passion for helping people find solutions to their career choices and corporate challenges, New Avenues Career Management Programs help both senior managers and employees increase productivity and achieve their careers goals by coaching them toward heightened self-awareness and the ability to initiate proactive steps toward change.
Kim Thompson has successfully applied her career management services in a diverse range of Fortune 500 companies including industries such as Energy, Petrochemical, Renewables, Construction, Healthcare, Media, Utilities, Technology, Manufacturing, Engineering, Non-Profit, Government, Education, Aerospace, Legal, and Finance. She has coached beginning-, mid-, and C-level executives to achieve their potential in exceeding organizational and personal goals. New Avenues can work with clients one-or-one or, for large corporate engagements, through a custom-designed network of Kim’s own experienced consulting practitioners.
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Career Coaching
Do you need a career coach to help you retain your employees? Then you need to contact us at New Avenues Careers. We provide state-of-the-art career coaching services for companies across the United States. Our goal is to help you retain your employees for the long haul. If you have a high turnover rate, it could indicate unfavorable working conditions that leads to attracting less passionate employees. Let us help you improve your company operations and management, so you’ll be able to hire top-notch talent. We’ll also assist you in developing your staff into skilled talents.
Core Services
New Avenues offers a variety of assessments for career mapping, development, and self-awareness.
- Concepts and skills to help you foster insight and growth in your staff.
- Productive and effective career planning.
- Tools and skills to develop your own personal and career goals.
- Ways to turn performance reviews into mechanisms for meaningful career development and planning.
- Ways to help employees make good career decisions, with a model that leads them to identifying and matching their goals to internal openings.
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Services for Business
WHAT DOES NEW AVENUES CAREER MANAGEMENT DO FOR EMPLOYERS?
No organization is too small or large to provide assistance to its employees and retain good talent. Human capital is your most expensive and important asset. Nurturing this resource helps boost productivity, ensure a stable working environment, and attract top talent.
New Avenues models its services around the employee and combines structure with accountability for those wanting to grow their careers internally or transition to new opportunities. We work closely with Human Resources, Management, and Organizational Development teams to work through change and talent development needs.
Managers often have great intentions of wanting to help employees’ grow their careers, but some struggle with how to have those conversations.
Great career conversations are not based on filling out required performance reviews or semi-annual career discussions but on understanding what employees are looking for in terms of growth.
New Avenues helps management break through misconceptions around career development.
Career Development is not a luxury but a necessity. Too often employees are placed in management roles without adequate training. New Avenues leadership development programs are created for newly appointed managers, mid-level directors to executive levels.
New Avenues has provided career and leadership coaching programs for domestic and international clients from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations in a wide variety of industries:
Oil and Gas, Utilities, Energy, Pipelines, Transportation, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Education, Aerospace, Engineering, Technology, Venture Capitalist, Legal, and Media.
Services for Individuals
IDENTIFYING YOUR STRENGTHS, OPPORTUNITIES
New Avenues can help you:
- Identify key skills to help you remain employable
- Develop a personal branding profile
- Understand organizational culture
- Navigate work/life issues, with balance and ownership of leadership roles for women
- Develop awareness of your internal career drivers
- Practice mindfulness at work
- Unleash the power of networking; understand the “who”
- Understand your blind spots and strengths
- Communicate effectively with multiple generations at work
In short, we can help you develop a practical career plan that works for you in the workplace!
New Avenues also understands the frustrations and challenges that come with searching for a new job. Our programs are designed to make the job search process more effective and tailored for you.
Do these statements sound familiar?
- “I have no idea who sees my resumes; I just send them in and who knows where they go?”
- “You are overqualified.”
- “Your compensation is too high.”
- “Why does networking have to be so difficult?”
- “The people I thought would help me the most are the ones who won’t return my calls”
- “What I am doing wrong?”
- "How do I get promoted at work?"
- "I love my job but dislike my boss, how can I succeed?"
You want answers and strategies that will help you reach your goals. Begin by partnering with experts who can lead you to solutions. New Avenues Careers has been about assisting people with their career plans for 20+ years.
We strive to make the job search process more comfortable and focused towards building new search skills that, combined with your personality, will help you make connections and market your value to employers.
– WHAT WE DO –
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The Job Market Has Changed
The traditional model of finding your next career move through hard work and moving up the career ladder of promotions has changed. The complexities of career growth, job searching, and the reality of how you find jobs, build your career, and gather information have taken on a new look.
Everything now moves at a faster pace.
The more you reach out and develop connections, learn the principle of building relationships, the faster you can tap into them and move forward.
Why Invest in Your Career?
Your career is your most significant investment of time. It is directly correlated to your financial means and provides an opportunity for purpose. Your career matters, and without managing it properly, you can quickly get off track, lose your confidence and settle for a job that is less than your goals. You would not dream of letting someone else choose your house or make life decisions for you, but when it comes to your career, that is precisely what happens when you fail to manage it. Letting an employer choose your career path might seem like an excellent way to grow, yet without careful evaluation, you could end up moving along for years without reaching your career goals.
Why is Coaching Needed More Today?
We live in a competitive marketplace where soft skills affect the productivity of the teams you lead. In times of change, coaches are needed more than ever to help facilitate a company culture that attracts and retains talent. You spent years gathering experience, and you could be limiting your career success without the self-knowledge needed to make transformational change. Coaching enables you to focus on what is essential, and it allows you to accelerate your success.
Coaching helps you build your personal brand through self-awareness and insight. It can be a powerful resource that allows you to see your goals clearly and take action to achieve the things vital to you. It can be challenging to identify your blind spots, and coaching can help you turn them into strengths rather than stumbling blocks in your career growth.
Coaching is no longer reserved for executives only. It is now being offered for first-line managers and those who want to develop their leadership and management skills.
When you participate in our Coaching Programs, you will learn and receive:
• How to trust your instincts and develop insight for reaching your goals.
• A customized plan of action for achieving your career goals.
• An accountability partner who is invested in your success.
• Self-awareness around areas that keep you from succeeding and building creditability with your peers, senior leadership, boards, and teams.
• Assessments to help measure and uncover hidden areas that could be jeopardizing your career growth.
• Gain more confidence in talking about your strengths and skills.
• How to maintain and care for established relationships as well as create new ones.
What are Career Transition Services?
Career transition services are customized to meet corporate and individual needs in assisting with successful transitions to new opportunities. New Avenues’ philosophy consists of the basic principles in launching a new career path; however, no two individuals are alike, so why should your program be the exact carbon copy? New Avenues takes a personal approach to help candidates create a job transition strategy that matches their interests and needs.
When Participating in our Career Transition Programs:
• The process of job searching and developing a deeper understanding of what matters most to you in your career.
• Identify your career interests, skills and highlight significant accomplishments that speak to your contributions.
• Develop your personal branding statement used for multiple platforms.
• You will learn new techniques and strategies for marketing your skills to people you know and are yet to meet.
• New resume strategies by enhancing your resume and understanding how your online profile is as essential as your print resume.
• How to create a customized job search plan that matches your interests and leverages your skills.
• The skills involved with job searching and moving your career forward in today’s job market.
• How to research and make connections to targeted companies of interest.
• Ask questions that lead towards rapport building, understanding that networking is a give and take relationship.
• How to answer and prepare for interviewing questions.
• Discuss compensation issues without intimidation.
• Make good career decisions based on the overall job offer rather than just one element, such as base salary.
• Reasons why the first 90 days of your new job is important in setting the tone for the future.
Career Transition Programs are offered using three delivery models:
Premium Leadership Program, Professional Program, and QuickStart Programs.
What will you learn?
New Avenues Career Management Programs will help you recognize the value you bring to the marketplace and assess your interests.
Launching a job search campaign in today’s competitive marketplace means you need to utilize and recognize the significance of every tool available to you - such as social networking, developing an online profile, and crafting a unique introduction that sets you apart from other candidates.
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To clear path for the future