1 / 15

Building on Your Strengths:

This career development process, inspired by Dr. Don Schutt, UW-Madison, focuses on the total work experience in a lifetime. Appreciative Inquiry guides the process towards uncovering strengths, creating an action plan, and envisioning a positive future. Unlike traditional methods, this approach capitalizes on strengths, fosters collaboration, and encourages intentional change. By exploring stories of life-giving forces and identifying themes, individuals can navigate towards a preferred future by cultivating excellence and creating new self-images.

tdowning
Download Presentation

Building on Your Strengths:

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Building on Your Strengths: A Career Development Process Utilizing Appreciative Inquiry Originating from: Dr. Don Schutt, UW-Madison

  2. Career: • The “totality of work-paid and unpaid-one does in his/her lifetime” (National Career Development Association Website)

  3. Career Development: • “The total constellation of psychological, sociological, educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine to influence the nature and significance of work in the total lifespan of any given individual” (National Career Development Association Website)

  4. Appreciative Inquiry: Core Processes • Choose the Positive • Stories of Life-Giving Forces • Locating Themes • Based on Integrative Life Planning Theory

  5. Goal: • Create an action plan that honors your strengths and articulates your hopes for your future

  6. How is Appreciative Inquiry Different? • Traditional Process: • Who Am I? • Where Am I Going? • How Do I Get There?

  7. What is Appreciative Inquiry? • A collaborative and highly participative, system-wide approach to seeking, identifying, and enhancing the “life-giving forces” that are present when a system is performing optimally in human, economic, and organizational terms.

  8. The Approach • Instead of focusing on deficits… • Seeks what is going right and builds on those strengths • Discussion and verbal exploration helps to create new images… • New images lead to new actions and behaviors

  9. Approach cont’d… • Strategy for intentional change • Process for engaging people • Way of seeing into the future • Collaborative approach to find strengths, passions, and life-giving forces

  10. Challenging Assumptions

  11. In Other Words… • Capitalize on your strengths and manage around your weaknesses!

  12. Appreciative Process

  13. Core Processes • Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry • Inquire into stories of life-giving forces • Locate themes that appear in the stories and select topics for further inquiry • Create shared images for a preferred future • Find innovative ways to create that future.

  14. Keys • Finding the seeds of excellence on which to build • Creating images of excellence in hopes that the individual moves toward those images • Changing our pictures of ourselves and creating new images

  15. Questions?

More Related