Photo Credit: © Crown Copyright 2014 OGL READY – STEADY – STOP! Are you sure you’re on the right track for the future? First things first. Get yourself a job. Get money coming in. Get some breathing space to adjust to life after leaving the forces. Give yourself time to make the physical and mental […]
Photo Credit: © Crown Copyright 2014 OGL Transition – Your Final Challenge This is your time The process of transition is your final challenge in the military – the challenge of first accepting, then successfully adjusting, to a new life beyond the wire. It’s a challenge you need to train for with the same commitment […]
Photo Credit: © Crown Copyright 2014 OGL EXPLOIT YOUR PORTFOLIO OF TALENTS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE One job, one career, isn’t it time to put yourself number one? Aren’t you fed up with the same old-same old – doing the same thing day in and day out? Are you merely existing; rather than vibrantly exploring […]
Photo Credit: © crown copyright 2014 OGL Reach for the Sky Taking the Self- Employment Option in Civvy Street Let me guess. You’re finding it difficult to grasp what life after leaving will actually be like. You’re moving from a life of certainty to the exact opposite; into a world that as yet, you don’t […]
Photo Credit: ©crown copyright 2014 OGL NAVIGATE YOUR WAY TO A BRIGHTER FUTURE PERSONAL ONLINE CAREER CHANGE & TRANSITION PROGRAMME Has the time come to take the future into your own hands? Do you expect to be made redundant or are you coping, as you read this, with the reality of redundancy? Perhaps you’re looking […]
Photo Credit: ©crown copyright 2014 OGL The Compression Chamber of Change The Transition Challenge – A Checklist for Change This subject could fill several books and months of seminars. This piece is an attempt to simplify the process and create a guideline to help you take the first steps on the road to resettlement. This […]
Photo Credit: © Crown Copyright 2014 OGL Keep Panic-Don’t Calm! Getting Your Mind Right for Leaving The Heightened Readiness for Resettlement Course ‘Keep Panic-Don’t Calm’ – remember this frantic cry from Sergeant Jones in Dad’s Army? The first reaction to leaving the forces is often a blue funk, of panic and confusion and extreme stress. […]
Photo Credit: © Crown Copyright 2014 OGL US & THEM – YOU & YOURS GETTING READY FOR LEAVING Civvy Street. Just saying those two words can give you a twinge in the pit of your stomach. Add this question: What are you going to do in Civvy Street? Then anxiety really kicks in. The immediate […]
Photo Credit: © Crown Copyright 2014 OGL Transition to Transformation This is a true story. A story of four people leaving the Armed Forces. One person with only two months to go after a lifelong career in the Infantry. Another infantry man eighteen months out; the third was spitting fire, enraged at the betrayal […]