| Beliefs The proprietary Fenton Model™ was developed because we believe that your career is a micro-business; that organisations are but a coalition of these micro businesses for relatively brief periods; that therefore since careers are businesses, jobs are joint ventures; that your career can and should be managed like any professional services business by growing your "career equity/capital/IP" which consists of your CV (Skills and Experience), EI (Emotional Intelligence) and PR (Reputation); that to do so will change the way you think about your work and your life helping to maximise the chances of achieving what you want; that this is a proactive rather than a reactive process. |
Your career is a micro-business |
Corporations are a coalition of micro-businesses |
| The Fenton Model™ produces hard and soft career balance sheets and personal business plans. We provocatively support the writing of these and we engage directly and pro-actively in their implementation. In this way we apply the footballer/actor/agent/ manager model to senior careers. Senior Level Management We believe that the so called "talent market" is one of the few remaining unreconstructed markets; that within ten years a significant proportion of senior people will be managed by third parties, like us, and that organisations will welcome this; and this will be the next paradigm beyond current coaching and outplacement models; that the more senior you are the more "management" you need and the less you get; that the world of sport and the arts figured this out a long time ago; that working and networking patterns in the 21st. Century mean that the businesses associated with people at work are changing, irrevocably. Self-Actualisation in Practice The Model was influenced by Maslow's "hierarchy of needs" and in particular his notion of "self actualisation" i.e. that you should "be what you can be"; that this, in practice, is about understanding not just what you can execute well, but also what excites; that these two are not always in tune. Other influences include Charles Handy - on work, Goethe - on commitment, Ekhardt Tolle - on living in the present, Daniel Goleman – on emotional intelligence and Gestalt processes on personal responsibility. |
