Dealing with change and different career stages
Featured in the Managing Career Development training manual
By Andrew Mayo & Geoff Atkinson& Karen Glasse
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Having perhaps identified a possible career change or future types of work, we often find the process of accepting change daunting and sometimes debilitating. This training activity examines the emotional side of change. Common experiences of different careers are described and put into the context of ongoing change. In the uncertain business of change there is one guarantee, that change is always involved in the development of one’s current, past and future career. Whether this change takes place in a slow developmental curve or is experienced as a dramatic shift, it is helpful to be able to understand one’s personal reactions and how best to deal with them. This makes an individual more able to deal with the change in a positive and constructive way.
The training activity begins by ‘testing’ the confidence of the participants in their careers and some of their feelings about change. The participants then look at changes that have affected them over the last ten years, the types of change and their reactions to them. They go on to reflect on their lives and the different changes that have happened to them. They put these into the context of the different life stages that we all experience. The training activity then focuses on the participants’ ability to cope with change: accepting change, how they experience change and their coping mechanisms. Finally, the participants take stock of their current situation and look forward to where they would like to be.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to examine the emotional side of change. In addition, common experiences of careers are identified and put into the context of ongoing change.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:40:00 |
| No of Pages: | 21 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with those conscious of experiencing change. Their job may be changing, perhaps because of a change within the organisation, as a result of actual or potential redundancy, or because the job market has changed and demands different capabilities. Not to be forgotten are those who may not be conscious of change taking place around them. Living in a technological era where one needs to change to be able to ‘stand still’ in one’s career, it is difficult to deny that change affects us all. This training activity examines the changes that take place inherently at different points in our life, and our means of coping with them.
Download the training activity, Dealing with change and different career stages as featured in the Fenman training manual; Managing Career Development