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Let your Career Coaching Team help you get your ideal job now!

 

• are you struggling to get back into work?

• are you clear about what you want and how to get it?

• can you do it on your own, or do you need support?

 

Meeting the support programme that you need

Ki Work has developed an exciting career transition acceleration programme for unemployed professionals in collaboration with experienced and interested coaches. We invite you to be one of our first clients to experience this effective and affordable way of finding or creating work.

The good news is that we are offering this service FREE for our first 100 customers (value over £700). There are no hidden costs. We only ask for commitment and a possible referral in return.

Your career coaching team

See our coaching team as a board of advisors who can lead you to success.

Your team of coaches will support you to create and execute a plan for success where you will learn more about

• who you are
• what you want
• what skills and experience you have
• what resources are there to help you, and
• what you need to do to achieve your goals.

Your personal coaches enable you to

• think outside of the box to identify untapped and undiscovered sources of jobs
• understand some of the challenges that you face and what you can do about it
• speak the language of your new job and potential market and tell them what they want to hear
• stop despair getting in the way of your success
• clear any limiting beliefs
• take an integral life approach to your wellbeing and success
• make the transition to new and fulfilling work NOW!

Your group peers help you to

• see other ways of approaching challenges
• discover new ideas
• understand yourself and others more
• gain fresh perspectives on trends and business direction
• stay grounded and focused.

Features

Helping you to get to where you want to be as soon as possible is our primary goal. However, sometimes it does take time. So the live online programme is designed to last for up to 14 weeks and includes:

• 5 hours of one-to-one planning and support sessions with your personalised coach
• 6 meetings with your career coaching peer group (up to 4 others)
• each meeting for 90 minutes once a fortnight to fast-track your progress
• at least 14 hours blanket of support.

You can join the programme from wherever you are in the UK.

This is a unique, one-off opportunity, where you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The free places are limited, so do email me now with your CV.

See more about Ki Work

Michael Wolff - CEO

www.ki-work.com

Let Your Integral Life Healing Team support you to be the change...! Free introductory offer.

• Are you becoming more conscious of what is and what is not working for you in your life?

• Are you disturbed by the state of the world, yet feel overwhelmed, confused and powerless to bring about the change we all know is needed?

• Are you looking to minimise your ecological footprint while increasing your overall sense of wellbeing?

• Is healing yourself your path to healing the world?

• Are you drawn to being part of a community of people who share these feelings?

• Could you be interested in supporting the development of a sustainable “Integral Life” community, and/or serving in one?

If you want to be the change that you want to see in the world, Your Integral Life Healing Team offers you healing, life practices and support to transform yourself and your world. Your integral healer will guide you on how to harmonise with the great changes taking place by doing inner work on yourself. Based on ancient wisdom and practices for healing our primal wound of separation, Integral Life Healing includes guided meditations and instruction in mindfulness in breath, connecting with your inner guide, shadow work, emotional release, meditation, affirmation and visualisation.

Incubated by Ki Work, Your Integral Life Healing Team is a collaborative enterprise consisting of a global network of professional healers. We invite you to be one of our first customers to experience this powerful way of harmonising your life and your relationships.

We are currently offering this service for free to the first 100 participants to build momentum, practice and experience. The value of this introductory offer is £549 (incl. VAT). A share of future revenue will contribute to the development of sustainable Integral Life communities in North East Scotland and other parts of the world.

Your Integral Life Healing Team

See our healing team as a support group for self-healing.

Your team of life healers will support you to discover your soul purpose and learn more about

• who you are

• how to connect with, listen to, and trust your inner guide

• how you are being called to serve and your soul purpose

• what skills and experience you can contribute

• what resources are there to help you, and

• what you need to do to heal yourself and the world.

Using a combination of one-to-one and group healing, your personal healer enables you to

• discover how to integrate your body and mind in order to connect powerfully with the universe

• understand some of the challenges the world is facing and what you can do about it

• learn how you heal the world by healing yourself and your relationships

• trust that you will be guided and supported and that all your needs will be met 

• clear any limiting beliefs

• take an integral life approach to your wellbeing and transformation

• move graciously through the cycles of darkness and light

• develop a set of life practices

• make the transition to serving the world NOW!

Integral Life Healing is “the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own and another’s spiritual growth”. Scott Peck (amended)

Your group peers help you to

• gain fresh perspectives on how the world is changing

• stay grounded and focused

• build your confidence

•  discover new ways of approaching challenges

• understand yourself and others more, and

• realise that you are supported and not alone. 

The 14 week programme

“What you want, you don’t get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own time, comes to you.” Martin Buber

Helping you to get to where you want to be as soon as possible is our primary goal. However, sometimes it does take time. So the live online programme is designed to last for up to 14 weeks and includes:

• 5 hours of one-to-one integral healing and support sessions helping you to develop your personalised practice plan

• 6 meetings with your integral life healing group (4 - 8 per group)

• each meeting for 90 minutes once a fortnight to deepen the process

• a total of 14 hours blanket of support.

Ongoing individual and group support programmes also available.

You can join the programme from wherever you are in the world, and wherever you are on your path to self-discovery. The programme is run using Skype and webinar platforms. If you already have Skype, there are no further costs for set-up or communication.

This is a unique, one-off opportunity, where you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The free places are limited, so please email me now.

Best wishes,

Michael Wolff - CEO

www.ki-work.com

For overview of Ki Work, see About Ki Work and About Collaborative Enterprising

Your Career Coaching Team - Topics

These are optional topics for training and discussion during group sessions:

Job Search

• information resources and job search tools
• online jobsites and CV databases
• handling recruitment agencies
• targeting unadvertised jobs
• networking (offline)
• social networking
  • LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
• action planning
• time management

Job Search Skills

• CV and cover letter writing
• planning and writing applications
• job elevator pitch
• interview preparation
• winning at interview
• transferable skills
• retraining and support

Self-employment

• resources for entrepreneurs
• business elevator pitch
• business development
• business planning
• tax planning and company formation
• business plan presentations
• internet marketing
• setting up an eBusiness

Inner Work

• self-awareness and relationship building
• dealing with loss
• dealing with limiting self-beliefs
• building self-confidence and motivation
• creating affirmations
• techniques for self-healing
• life practice

Contact Michael Wolff

CEO Ki Work

Collaborative enterprising

Collaborative Enterprising

Collaborative Enterprising is an agile and flexible business structure that enables self-employed professionals to organise themselves into competitive and sustainable business enterprises. The enterprise can be established without the requirement for capital, infrastructure, or fixed employment. It can also be operated with almost zero fixed costs. This structure is suitable for service providers such as coaches, consultants, freelancers, home based businesses, virtual assistants, and other self-employed professionals.

Adding value to solo professionals

Operating on their own, self-employed professionals do not have the full range of organisational skills required to run a successful and sustainable solo business. Ki Work uniquely enables them to earn substantial additional income by collaborating as a team. Ki Work provides added value through product creation, business development, sales and marketing, branding, web-based tools, and co-ordination.

Key principles

The organisational model is based on the followng key principles:

• an entrepreneur identifies a potential business opportunity for services and recruits a team
• the services provided can be delivered partially or wholly online to customers in multiple locations
• the providers of the services are self-employed professionals able to work as members of distributed teams
• the providers agree to collaborate on a revenue-share and pay-as-you-go business model
• the risks are shared proportionately
• all the team members manage their own operational costs
• the terms of collaboration are summarized in a single simple agreement
• there is no requirement for a single legal entity or shareholding structure
• operations are enabled using a range of web-based tools and applications
• teams can be created, re-formed, and dis-assembled dynamically.

Organisational structure

The organisation structure consists of three elements with a typical revenue share split as follows:

• co-ordination                        16%
• sales                                     20%
• delivery                                 64%

The percentage split can be varied according to the requirements of the project or service.

Benefits

The main benefits of this model are:

• flexibility and agility
• major operational cost savings
• scalability
• simplicity.

Incubating collaborative enterprises

Ki Work is a web-based social network utility that supports the incubation, marketing and management of collaborative enterprises.

Ki Work's immediate goal is to test the market for a 3-month affordable career transition support service for higher income unemployed professionals through the provision of a free service for up to 100 customers.

Besides career coaching, Ki Work is reviewing multiple applications for Collaborative Enterprising.

Contact Michael Wolff

CEO Ki Work

About Ki Work

Incubating collaborative enterprises

Ki Work is a web-based social network utility that supports the incubation, marketing and management of collaborative enterprises.

Collaborative Enterprising

Collaborative Enterprising is an agile and flexible business structure that enables self-employed professionals to organise themselves into competitive and sustainable business enterprises. The enterprise can be established without the requirement for capital, infrastructure, or fixed employment. It can also be operated with almost zero fixed costs. This structure is suitable for service providers such as coaches, consultants, freelancers, home based businesses, virtual assistants, and other self-employed professionals.

Adding value to solo professionals

Operating on their own, self-employed professionals do not have the full range of organisational skills required to run a successful and sustainable solo business. Ki Work uniquely enables them to earn substantial additional income by collaborating as a team. Ki Work provides added value through product creation, business development, sales and marketing, branding, web-based tools, and co-ordination.

Your Career Coaching Team - Free introductory service

In January 2011, Ki Work began incubating a 14-week affordable career transition support service for higher income unemployed professionals in the UK. There is currently a free introductory service for up to 100 customers with 20 coaches. The full service is due to launch in June 2011.

Your Integral Life Healing Team

In May 2011, Ki Wok began incubating a 14-week self-healing service for people that want to be the change they want to see in the world. There is currently a free introductory service for up to 100 customers. The full service is due to launch in September 2011.

Contact Michael Wolff

CEO Ki Work

Jobsearch coaching for unemployed UK professionals

I am an ex-senior executive and specialist career coach. I work with professionals to help them identify and appreciate their skills and experience in order to proactively market themselves confidently for a new position.

If you’re a recently unemployed professional or executive in the UK and want jobsearch coaching and support to help you get back into work, this free programme sponsored by the DWP could be what you need.

As your Career Coach, I will help you clarify what you most want out of your chosen career, identify your strengths and create a strategic process and development plan that will give you the confidence and focus to achieve your goals.

We do best what we enjoy the most. One-to-one career coaching helps you to clarify what you want in your life, how your work supports your goals, and how to set about achieving it.

Understanding what you want in your life enables me to give confident advice that can be put into practice and used to achieve results.

Objectives

The coaching is totally geared to your individual aspirations.  During telephone and online coaching, you will:

• develop awareness of the issues which will be key influences on your future
• explore your personal talent, motivation and values
• understand how these underpin personal communication and management style
• identify a personal vision of the future and understand how that aligns with organisational values, vision and strategy
• create an action plan that will enable you to meet your goals.

To apply, email your CV and contact details to coaching@ki-work.com

Free jobsearch support for newly unemployed UK professioinals

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Future of Outsourcing and Offshoring – is it all over? Is Homeshoring next?

Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon, author of 12 book including Futurewise, recently made this keynote speach at a conference in Sweden. He asserts that massive wage jumps in India and China of up to 100% a year mean that cost advantages of outsourcing offshoring to these countries are rapidly disappearing. What next? Will jobs move back to America or Europe? Will huge salary inflation impact for senior executives in India and China make outsourcing economics harder. He is seeing up to 100% wage inflation in China and 40% in india for experienced business leaders.

See Dr Dixon's video:

If we include the uncertainties of exchange rates, the risks of offshoring appear to be increasing. Does that mean that companies will start looking seriously as homeshoring (where savings of 20% - 40% are achievable), or will they seek to go down the cost curve by seeking out lower cost offshore destinations?

For an overview of Ki Work's homeshoring solutions

Ki Work Homeshoring Solutions 3 0

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Ki Work seeks associates to help develop homeshoring pilots

Ki Work is developing applications that will provide a virtual operational platform and marketplace for an on-demand contingency workforce. This provides an opportunity for virtual entrepreneurs to create, market and operate their own homeshoring businesses, requiring minimal start-up and set-up costs.

Ki Work is currently at the stage of developing small homeshoring pilots as proof of concept. The process starts by providing homeshoring consultancy and feasibility studies.

The company is looking for associates who can help source prospective customers and engage in the  operation of pilots.

Organisations with small contact centre operations are likely to be the most susceptible. The initial focus is in the UK.

For more info on Ki Work’s homeshoring solutions, see one-page flyer: http://is.gd/b8qW2 and more detailed ppt: http://is.gd/b8k6V

Contact CEO Michael Wolff if you are interested.

http://www.ki-work.com/ki-project/homeshoring_associates

Ki Work social enterprise

Ki Work has recently won a sizeable government grant under the UK's Future Jobs Fund. This is to employ 40 Green Energy Specialists to provide green audits and to offer related services/products to third sector organisations and SMEs.

As the venture is a social enterprise, Ki Social Enterprise CIC has been set up as a new initiative to provide energy consultancy, services and products for small- to medium-size organisations in the third sector, especially charities and social enterprises.  The company will initially employ, train and mentor young people that are long-term unemployed and people over 25 who are in areas of high unemployment as Energy Specialists to deliver these services.

Besides receiving full training, these Energy Specialists will be provided emotional and practical support through coaching, counselling, and mentoring to help them find satisfying and sustainable jobs through government, private and third sector initiatives. In the first instance, Ki Social Enterprise's activities will provide benefit to

unemployed jobseekers - especially long-term unemployed and people in areas of high unemployment throught the provision of

• sustainable employment in the green energy sector by the creation of new green energy jobs
• training, coaching, mentoring and counselling

small and medium size organisations in the third sector -  through the provision of energy efficiency consultancy enabling those organisations to benefit themselves, their communities, and the environment through the leveraging of green energy technology.

Community benefits

The community will benefit through the provision of energy efficiency consultancy to third sector organisations such as charities and social enterprises. The objective is to help all involved to leverage green energy technology and initiatives. By demonstrating best practice in energy efficiency, third sector organisations will be benefiting their members, local communities and the environment by

• reducing their carbon footprint;
• saving costs and thereby being able to increase their services to the community; and
• demonstrating their leadership in this critical area of social change.

With respect to the unemployed youth, the community will benefit through the provision of coaching, counselling and mentoring support to young workers entering the workforce. This enables jobseekers to manage the traumatic effects of unemployment.

 

Challenging 2009? Why not make 2010 your Best Year Yet!

Have you, like me, had a really tough year and feel that you need to make some changes in your life?

If so, here’s an effective strategy to identify and focus on what you really need to make that difference. It’s a program you can do on the web, either on your own, or guided by a coach. It’s called Best Year Yet!®

2010 - your Best Year Yet!®

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I did my first Best Year Yet® program as a whole day workshop 18 years ago. That was a turning point. It completely changed the direction of my life within a week. Today I’m facing new challenges, but now, over 100,000 users later, the program is so much easier to use:

• it’s quicker

• lasts for a whole year

• is less costly, and

• is much more effective.

In fact you can start making the changes in a few hours at about the same cost as a night out on the town!

So why not make the change now? In just two hours on the web, you can make YOUR OWN personal plan for the coming year that

• identifies the results you really want and need

• provides a strong sense of confidence and clarity, and

• motivates you from the inside out to make your dreams come true!

And if you need support, one of Ki Work’s accredited life/career coaches can be there for you.

Just click here to get started: http://ki-work.com/best_year_yet

Free career coaching support for unemployed UK professionals

If you’re a recently unemployed professional in the UK and want to make this your “Best Year Yet”, read on.

This is a FREE service available through Ki Work, sponsored by the UK government. The programme includes:

-   personal goal setting and tracking

-   up to three hours personal coaching.

Your coach will take you through the acclaimed Best Year Yet goal setting and planning programme supporting you to:

      acknowledge and appreciate what happened last year
      define useful lessons
      create a positive internal focus for producing results
      identify the top 10 goals for the coming year
      create a plan of action for delivering the top 10 goals.

Depending on your individual needs, you will be coached in how to

      rebrand yourself
      source suitable work experience
      understand employers’ recruitment practices
      improve your job applications
      improve your interview techniques.

Eligibility

The Jobsearch Support Service for Newly Unemployed Professionals, is targeted principally at professional or executive jobseekers in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) who have become unemployed after a period of long term employment.

This support service is funded by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).  Eligible customers will have little or no experience of current job search channels but will have the confidence and motivation to seek work independently.

The aim of the programme is to give customers with professional and executive occupational backgrounds the knowledge and skills to enable them to identify and secure relevant jobs using up-to-date job search techniques and to exploit diverse recruitment channels.

To apply, contact Michael Wolff at coaching@ki-work.com