‘Manage your career or it will manage you’ – the use of ‘6 Ps career management skills’ as a tool in a reflective construction of the career path ’ Dr Aneta Slowik Cross Border Seminar May 2012 Bled, Slovenia

Programme of our workshop Introduction of ourselves Mini – Lecture – The characterisation of the tool of ‘The 6 Ps of Career Management’ Play – roles: Practical use of ‘The 6 Ps of Career Management’ Personal reflections on work as a counsellor based on an active participation in the workshop

Mini - lecture Psychodynamic and humanist concept of a human being – liberal counselling (LC) Play – Role TOOL: 6 Ps of Career Management

Mini - lecture Persistence People Product Plan Profit Passion 6 Ps of Career Management

6 Ps of Career Management - PRINCIPLES 6 Ps of Career Management are visual representations of significant phenomena in the life of the individual Persistence Product Plan Profit Passion People

6 Ps of Career Management - PRINCIPLES Passion – how important passion did count, is counting and will count in your life? Did your passion help you to make a successful progress in your life span career? Do you think that you lost your passion in different spaces of your life (professional, personal, social)? People – how important they were, are and will be in the future? How did you behave towards them in the past? How significant they were, are, will be in your life span career? Would you like to make any changes in this principle? Product – you as a product. How did you see and are seeing yourself as a value ‘product’ looking at your personality, character, skills, competencies? How would you like to be seen?

6 Ps of Career Management – PRINCIPLES Plan - are you a good planner of your career? What are you lacking in it? Do you need it at the present time and in the coming years to make progress in your life career span? Profit – what it means for you a making profit from your career? Saving more? Making more than spending? How did you perceive yourself in terms of looking at your balance accounting skills? Would you like to make any changes in this principle? Persistence – how many efforts did you make for your achievements to get where you are? How important persistence did count, is counting and will count in your life span career? Do you think that you should be more persistent?

Product Persistence People Plan Profit Passion 6 Ps of Career Management

Please, chose as much as you would like some visual representations of your 6PS (Persistence, Product, People, Plan, Passion, Profit) and place them in your past, present and future time of your life spaces

6 Ps of Career Management THE PAST THE PRESENT THE FUTURE Plan Profit Passion People Persistence Product

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