What's The Framework Underlying Career OverDrive's Training Systems?

By James Santagata
Principal Consultant, Career OverDrive!


Here's our basic philosophy:

I. We Focus On What's Fun & Effective:

• Winning is fun.
  
• Being in control is fun.
  
• Efficiently learning battle-tested and battle-proven techniques is fun.
  
• Being emotionally dissociated from a situation or the outcome of the situation is fun.

II. We Minimize Or Eliminate What Isn't Fun Or Effective:

• Re-inventing the wheel isn't fun.
  
• Spending inordinate amounts of time to learn something, especially of dubious value, isn't fun.
  
• Forgetting what you learned isn't fun.
  
• Not knowing how to apply what you learned isn't fun.
  

In a nutshell, what we've done is to identify the most important skills, the heavy-hitters, that you'll need to maximize the  enjoyment of your current work, career and life.

We've then boiled this down, tempered and honed it, until its been battle-tested and battle-proven.

After that we've created an entire system around it so that all of our training offers something like this:

• A universal framework.
  
• Specific and easy to understand principles.
  
• A series of powerful strategies.
  
• Easy to learn and immediately usable techniques.
  

On top of this we teach not just the "how" but also the “why” so that you can quickly understand not only when and when not to apply this material but also how to deftly apply and calibrate it to an infinite number of real-world situations.