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Take Time to Reflect: Counsellors' Career Journeys

Take Time to Reflect: Counsellors' Career Journeys. Roberta Neault Life Strategies Ltd. 604-856-2386 info@lifestrategies.ca www.lifestrategies.ca. Overview. Frameworks for Understanding Career Flow Career Engagement Taking Stock What’s Working? What’s Not? Dealing With the Unexpected.

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Take Time to Reflect: Counsellors' Career Journeys

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  1. Take Time to Reflect: Counsellors' Career Journeys Roberta Neault Life Strategies Ltd. 604-856-2386 info@lifestrategies.ca www.lifestrategies.ca

  2. Overview • Frameworks for Understanding • Career Flow • Career Engagement • Taking Stock • What’s Working? What’s Not? • Dealing With the Unexpected

  3. Career Flow & Career Engagement Frameworks For Understanding

  4. Career Flow Inspiration • Positive Psychology • e.g., Seligman, 2002 • Optimal Experience “the way that people describe their state of mind when consciousness is harmoniously ordered, and they want to pursue whatever they are doing for its own sake.” ~Csikszentmihalyi, 1990; p. 6

  5. Effective Career Management • Continuous Learning • Flexibility • Persistence • Optimism • Risk-Taking • Planfulness • Networking • Financial Management • Work-Life Balance

  6. Career Flow Competencies Environment Environment Hope Environment Environment

  7. The Hierarchy of Hope • Global • I can generally achieve my goals • Domain-specific • I can generally achieve my goals in athletics but I’m less confident about achieving school goals • Goal-specific • I’m generally able to achieve my life goals but not sure that I can earn an “A” on my chemistry exam We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. ~Dale Carnegie

  8. The “Career Flow” Metaphor • Steady flow • White water • Waterfalls • Still water • Stagnant water • Flow interrupted…

  9. Optimal “Flow” • Activities that: • Completely capture our attention • Reflect our values and call upon our strengths • Allow us to feel we can express who we are • Engage us in appropriately challenging tasks

  10. Optimal Career Flow • Identify • When it occurs • Skills you are using • Values you are expressing • Interests you are manifesting • Note • Tasks you are performing • Environment in which it is occurring • Your reaction to it • Keep an optimal career flow log

  11. Career Engagement Inspiration • Flow • Csikszentmihalyi (1990) • Career Responsiveness • Neault (2002) • Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) • Vygotsky (1978) • Employee Engagement • Pickerell (2010)

  12. FLOWAdapted from Csikszentmihalyi’s (1997) Finding Flow High Arousal Anxiety FLOW CHALLENGES Worry Control Relaxation Apathy Boredom Low SKILLSHigh

  13. Career Responsiveness • Emergency Preparedness…not Fortune Telling! • Looking Ahead • Scenario Planning • Benchmarking Skills • Lifelong Learning • Keeping up with Technological Change • Managing Personal Resources • Time, Money, Relationships • Finding Work-Life Balance

  14. Employee Engagement Model ~ Pickerell, 2010

  15. Source: http://sites.wiki.ubc.ca/etec510/Components_of_Cognitive_Apprenticeship:_Scaffolding

  16. Career Engagement ~ Neault & Pickerell, 2011

  17. Two Routes to Disengagement • Overwhelmed • High challenge; insufficient capacity • Results in anxiety/worry • At risk for stress-related burnout • Become unproductive and unable to juggle multiple tasks / complete work • Underutilized • High capacity; low challenge • Results in boredom and apathy ~ Neault & Pickerell, 2011

  18. Taking Stock

  19. Ask Yourself . . . • Are your skills current and in demand? • Is your attitude showing? • Is it good? • Do your values mesh with your organization’s? • How does your current job match your interests and personal style? • Are you optimistic about your . . . • Job? • Organization? • Sector?

  20. What’s Working? What’s Not? • Skills and Competencies / Education / Credentials • Professional Development / Coaching / Mentoring • Professional Networks / Relationships at Work • Industry and Occupational Trends • Current Location • Career Success To-Date (e.g., $, Accomplishments) • Work-Life Balance

  21. Tsunami Stagnant / Toxic Stillwater Whitewater Dealing with the unexpected Waterfall Flow Interrupted

  22. Trying to place an evolving person into the changing work environment is like trying to hit a butterfly with a boomerang. ~John Krumboltz

  23. According to Planned Happenstance • One should be prepared for • Unexpected phone calls • Chance encounters • Impromptu conversations • New experiences Source: http://plannedhappenstance.com/aboutus.html

  24. 10 Tips for Career Management for Counsellors • Take time to reflect • Take stock • Benchmark your skills and competencies • Look around • Identify trends • Explore opportunities • Be visible • Commit to continuing education • Keep your documents current • Walk your talk

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