Values, attitudes and motivation
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)
The future direction taken as a result of current career decisions is strongly influenced by personal values, attitudes and motivators. In this training activity the participants explore and clarify these areas through a number of instruments and exercises. They use each other and personal exploration, as well as your help to discover or clarify personal values, attitudes and motivation. This training activity gives participants the opportunity to examine their personal drivers, needs and wants. Having clarified this (and also their personal skill set and know-how covered in other training activities), defining the next career step becomes not only an easier decision, but also a better informed one that is more likely to succeed.
The introduction to the activity makes clear to participants that we have to understand ourselves, what satisfies us and what doesn’t, before we can plan a career. They begin by examining personal values – what they are and how in touch participants themselves are with these values in daily living. Participants then consider their own motivation by looking at motivational theories and applying these to personal experience. They explore issues relating to changing motivators over time and their current motivators. A shield is used at various points throughout the training activity to summarise personal values and motivators important to participants. It is used again in the final exercise to summarise what actions should be taken next by participants.
Who is it for: Attitudes, Career planning and development, Continuing professional development, Life and career development, Management development, Motivation, Personal development, Personal development planning, Personal effectiveness, Self-development, Values, Work planning.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:20:00 |
| No of Pages: | 24 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with any participant who wishes to clarify their personal understanding of themselves in order to be clearer about which career path to follow. The training activity can be broadly applied and should be followed by further training activities that clarify career opportunities along with how to come to a decision on what career path to take.
Download the training activity, Values, attitudes and motivation as featured in the Fenman training manual; Managing Career Development