1. Workplace Guidance Helsinki Award, 2006: best EU/LdV guidance project Peter Plant, Denmark IAEVG conference Jyväskylä June 4, 2009

2. Career? My dad is a baker, his taste is the best in muffins and cakes And I am his aid – a real bunny maid I’ve got what it takes My career is in baking it’s not my intent I’d rather be seen in a big circus tent

3. Career ? My mom has a circus, an oldfashioned one with horses and clowns I swing the trapeze, I sell candy and sweets, yell announcements in towns But the ring is no good place for me when instead I’d much rather that my career was in bread

4. Workplace Guidance Helsinki Award, 2006: best EU/LdV guidance project Promoted by Starfsafl, Iceland LdV- project on Vocational Guidance for Lower-Paid Workers www.workplaceguidance.eu www.gla.ac.uk/wg DK- examples: http://www.gla.ac.uk/wg/danconte.htmhttp://www.gla.ac.uk/wg/danconte.htm

5. Workplace Guidance: Out of office

6. Set in brick or vitual? House of Guidance & Jobmultimeter

7. Or with people – at work

8. WG Partners Iceland – Promoter Czech Republic Denmark Finland Italy Luxemburg Norway Spain Sweden United Kingdom

9. In the workplace from photographic reportages of www.vejlederforum.dkwww.vejlederforum.dk

10. Guidance Corner in the workplace

11. Informal AND formal guidance

12. Outgoing: outreach guidance & SMS

13. Simple guidance tools Competence display in the lunch-break room: Red = NO, don’t want to do this or learn Yellow = might do and will learn Green = can do and will teach others

14. Which guidance topics? Vocational training General adult education Leisure activities & links with work Personal & workplace development Accreditation of prior learning Job-rotation CV / job-application & self-presentation

15. In the workplace? Guidance corners Learning advisors Educational ambassadors Trade union representatives Guidance experts

16. Workplace Guidance: What do we know for sure? Guidance & counselling are fluffy concepts It matters to get close: IN the workplace People not systems vs people AND systems Peer guidance with professional backup Time in the workplace: industrial agreement

17. Transfer: Adult guidance DK EUR 17 mill (2008-2009): 22 networks/research/ workplace guidance/learning advisors

18. Iceland 10 lifelong learning and guidance centres Educationals funds/industrial agreement Profesional counsellors: outreach Inspiration: Workplace Guidance project

19. Contact & references Prof Peter Plant, PhD Guidance Research Unit Danish University of Education Tuborgvej 164 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Denmark pepl@dpu.dk Refs: Plant, P. & Turner, R. (2005). Getting closer: workplace guidance for lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 24:2, 123-135 Plant, P. (2008). On the shopfloor: guidance in the workplace. Athanasou, J. & Esbroek, R.V. (eds) (2008). International Handbook of Career Guidance. London: Springer