The Confident Career Leader Programme
Take Action TODAY Towards Your Senior Leadership Role!
The Career Accelerator
Take Action TODAY Towards Your Senior Leadership Role!
I want to help you to ✅ develop your career, ✅ fill out your job application forms (EVEN IF your ideal job hasn't been advertised yet) and ✅ build your confidence!
🗺️ If you want CONFIDENCE IN YOUR OWN ABILITY, CLARITY AND DIRECTION, and to SECURE LEADERSHIP ROLES - this is for you.
Firstly, here’s who it’s for:
YOU ARE…
- Thinking about applying for DP and/or Principal jobs. You want expert support along the way - clarity on where you’ve missed out in the past and encouragement to remain on track with your career goal.
- Resilient and persistent despite setbacks. You know that you may have to try many times to secure the role that you dream of. You may already have been knocked back but you remain optimistic.
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- Highly regarded by current school leaders. You have a network of teachers who speak highly of you and sense that you’ll do a great job. They give you advice and feedback when you need it.
- Willing to put the energy into this and know that the monetary investment you make now will pay dividends in your future.
- Looking for personalised coaching as opposed to online courses.
- You want actionable feedback and constructive help that will empower you to move forward with 1-1 support.
Here's What You Want
To Be Organised
You want to prepare in advance because you know that school is busy, and you know that working with me will encourage you to get started before your role is even advertised. No need to stress last-minute - when your job application needs to be submitted!
🔦 Mock Interviews and Feedback on Your Interview Performance
You’ve been shortlisted and you need a mock interview. The Confident Career Leader Programme works on developing your interview skills and gives you 2 opportunities to build confidence and develop your interview skills.
Reassurance that your job application is ‘good enough’
After filling in job applications, you’ll wonder if what you’ve written will get you shortlisted and how it compares to other job applications. The personalised approach in The Confident Career Leader Programme will help you get feedback and support with job applications.
THE ANSWER…
After testing the old ways of what I call ‘The Solo Struggle Path’ to grow and develop basic leadership skills, I found myself doing things alone a lot and not being able to invest in my development - I persevered, learning what I could from free trainings and online searches.
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These absolutely worked in the initial stages BUT… I found the lack of access to people who had the answers that I needed tricky and growth was slower than I’d hoped that it would be.
So I decided to ‘double down’ on what was working. I started to invest more heavily in mentors and coaches. It had helped me so far - but I now needed to make a bigger impact. 🎉 When I began working with clients THEY started getting results - securing roles and I started feeling that this was working for THEM TOO!
*The Confident Career Leader Programme* is here to get where you want to go FASTER!
❌ OLD WAY
- Doing things solo without the help of others
- Focusing on the COST (mock interviews, job application reviews), rather than the RETURN (a brand new job that will help you feel enthused and happy!)
- Making mistakes slowly and slowly learning the lesson
- Relying on the advice of ‘generalists’ instead of ‘specialists’
- No plan or strategic vision
- Stuck on the laptop
- Being overly worried about rejection
✅ NEW WAY
- Supporting leaders and making them accountable
- Focusing on the GOAL and the INVESTMENT in your career and progressing towards your future
- Making mistakes FAST and learning FAST from them
- Accessing your blind spots that have held you back from being promoted in the past.
- Being ok with rejection
- Simplifying job applications and interviews
- Tapping into the advice of a specialist.
- Strategic career vision
- Variety, Connection, Fun!
- ‘Stretch Zone’ living.
The Confident Career-Leader Programme is Supportive
You'll get.....
💻 Job Application Review and Editing
I’ll help you take an old (or a newly written) job application and edit it for you and together, we’ll write your best stories and create an application that transforms your skills and gets you shortlisted.
EVERY job application I’ve seen, benefits from an expert eye - to highlight blind spots, improve attention to detail and cut out the waffle.
Using an old job application saves you time writing a new one, gives you a chance to copy and paste the new content and streamlines the process of applying for your next job. PLUS it saves you tonnes of time not starting from scratch!
🚀 The Leadership Success Path
When putting yourself out there - rejection is inevitable! Understanding the steps that my clients have gone through to get into leadership roles helps them see the bigger picture. The training inside the programme outlines steps you’ve taken in the past and highlights steps you can take in the future.
✏️ BRAVO Method
This is my personal job application review and messaging strategy that helps me quickly overview where a client’s job application is at. I teach you how to overview your job application using this method solo - to ensure that your job application feels up to scratch and you’ve developed these skills forever!
✏️ The STAR Technique
Whether you fear you waffle in interviews or you fear that you don’t say enough, the unique way that I teach the STAR technique ensures that teachers place the words together in a way that’s interesting to the listener.*** They are interested - YOU impress!
Best of all, I simplify how to tell STAR technique and LAOS stories so that you feel comfortable telling them and you know what to expect.
🚨 ‘Help, I’ve an Interview in a Week’ Online Course
This top-selling course supports you with mini-lessons on each of the leadership questions that you’ll be asked in interviews. Accessible on your user-friendly app you can use it in the run-up to all leadership interviews.
How does it work?
Coaching
You have 3 personalised coaching sessions with me. In Session 1, we’ll review and update your job application. In Session 2, you’ll complete a 360 review for self-awareness and uncovering your unique selling points that make you the obvious fit for the role.
Session 3 is your mock interview. Practise your newly developing interview skills in a mock interview, which will be recorded for your use later on. Option to book a further discounted mock interview at a later date.
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Course
A plug-and-play, proven online course that outlines the 4 core stages to help you communicate what you have to offer, including
- Stage 1 - APPLICATION: Job Applications - understanding and gathering your experience and interesting career stories and putting them into your form.
- Stage 2: AWARENESS: What makes you special? The best person for this role? Pinpointing what makes you stand out (hint: It's not your experience!)
- Stage 3: INTERVIEW: Deep dive into your interview performance, build your interview skils, get feedback on your interview answers and overcome interview fears.
- Stage 4: FOLLOW ON: (optional). Choose to remain in the programme for further support or continue the journey solo.
Inside, you’ll find practical, step-by-step lessons, resources, templates, informative videos, etc.
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Support
Over the 6 weeks, you’ll receive unlimited access to me via Instagram or Voxer. And you’ll have an action plan to follow at all times to keep you on track.
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⚠️ Limited Spaces Available
Because this programme is so hands-on, I only work with a maximum of three teachers at any one time. This allows me to give you the kind of support you can’t get working solo or in a large group programme - 1:1 coaching, unlimited Voxer check-ins, detailed feedback on your job application form, and ongoing encouragement when you need it most. This ensures that your chances of success are greatly enhanced.
Most teachers use Voxer support several times a week, on top of their coaching calls, and that level of attention means spaces are extremely limited. Once the three places are taken, you’ll need to wait until a spot opens up again.
The DEPUTY PRINCIPALSHIP OR PRINCIPALSHIP of your ideal school has come up. What do you do?
You HAVE A LEADERSHIP QUALIFICATION and you found the course helpful!
Now you’d love a STRATEGY to show how your insights can be of benefit to the school, right?
As soon as you start THINKING about a senior leadership role – the best time to start preparing is NOW.
Picture this...
When you start on The Confident Career Leader Programme, you’ll be SO MUCH FARTHER AHEAD than where you are right now! Once you commit - you’ll be investing in your future career.
1. A SAF Review
2. Mock Interview
3. Accountability
and Encouragement
4. Online Course:
Help! I've an Interview
in a Week
🎯 Case Studies 🎯
John is ready with his job application
*John had lots of teaching experience and leadership experience before he began teaching – and was eager to share his experience on a wider scale in school leadership. His aim was a DP or Principalship in another school.
His objective was to complete his job application form and not to feel fully prepared when roles in his area were advertised.
Over the course of the 6 weeks, John enjoyed learning from the guest speakers in The Teachers' Promotion Club. Each week he logged into the group and listened to a training on his way to work and accessed the interview focused videos in 'Help! I've an Interview in a Week'.
He focused on trainings that would get him closer to becoming a senior school leader. At the end of our time together because he was accountable to me and our planned 1-1 sessions - it meant that he completed his job application form and we tweaked it so that it can be used to apply for a variety of jobs in different schools whenever they are advertised.
John is ready for this next exciting stage in his career.
Here's why the Confident Career Leader Programme worked for him
- He received regular feedback and support
- He now has confidence in his job application and solid belief that his form will impress
- He has phrases and new skills to tailor his form/s for the future
- He can see his clear path towards leadership and career change.
Here's what John had to say the best parts of the programme were for him.
"The accountability that you provide. I need someone to hold me to account and to get me thinking and working on my job application form - and you did that.
Also, your positivity and I see how much you love your job and how good that you are at it. It makes this package invaluable".
Get ready to BE READY to secure your senior leadership role.
🎯Case Studies🎯
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Brenda knows that her mindset was the thing holding her back.
Brenda came to me as a young teacher aiming to apply for senior leadership roles. Having completed many leadership courses, she is ambitious and focused on making a difference in the lives of her pupils and at a leadership level.
In the ‘Application Form Review Session’ Brenda changed the way she thought about her experience and the impact that she has made. She formatted her examples in the STAR format in her job application and they are eye-catching to the selection board.
To date, Brenda’s ideal role has not been advertised yet – however, she is ready to apply and she is feeling a new sense of confidence and self-assuredness.
Here's why the Confident Career Leader Programme worked for Brenda
Brenda is young and ambitious. She identified that getting help sooner would bring her better results and a senior leadership role more quickly. She is now equipped with ideas, action points, and career tasks that are well-suited to her strengths and needs to engage in as she waits for a role to be advertised.
AS FEATURED ON...
🎯 Client Testimonial 🎯
This programme has been a very positive, encouraging and reflective experience for me.
Orla’s relaxed, yet intuitive experience mentoring people brought out the best in me as we completed the Deputy Principal Application Form together.
I received excellent feedback in a timely manner as I recorded interview answers using Voxer.
Orla gave me invaluable practice in using the STAR technique which set me up to explore the informative and easily accessible information relevant to interviews.
It is an incredible bonus to have continued access to Orla through the Voxer app.
I highly recommend the professional services offered by Orla."
M, Experienced Primary School Teacher.
🎯 Case Studies 🎯
Claire secured her dream place in college studying Speech and Language Therapy
Another of my clients, I'll call her *Claire - came to me - with a desire to complete a course in Speech and Language Therapy which she felt that her future career would benefit from.
Claire wanted to work with students and children with language difficulties and identified that she that she would love to complete in order for her to leave the classroom eventually and work in this area.
Here's how we approached her goal.
Identifying the Objective: Firstly, together we looked at the requirements of the course and created a CV and an application letter, which showed her passions and experience with children with language difficulties.
Letter of Application: Claire wrote her application letter well, and I added lots of extra details to ensure that it would be able to be read and skimmed through effectively and really captured the reader's eye. Most of the content was her own, but revamping the look of the letter really made a huge impact.
CV: With the CV she just gave me a brief outline with about her experience but the information was bare – She was unsure how to create a CV. So what I did was ask her of her experience, especially focusing on anytime she had worked with the student language difficulties - because that's what the college would want to see.
The process took about 90 minutes and by the end of the session, Claire knew exactly what she needed to fit in to finish off and improve her CV. In fact, she was coming up with the phrases herself with ease!
RESULTS: I am thrilled to announce that Claire has just let me know that she has secured her place in the course this is the first step to a new future. She is now on her way to fulfilling her dreams of moving out of the classroom and working with those whom she knows will really benefit from her experience.