Career Coaching Tools...ACT made simple: An easy-to-read primer on acceptance and commitment...
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Unsticking the stuckness: Evidence Based Career Coaching
Tools
Dr Julia YatesSenior Lecturer, Organisational Psychology
City, University of London
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Plan for the session
• Why do we need additional tools?
• Three tools
– Possible selves
– Strengths
– ACT
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Where do people get stuck?
Career decisions are hard.
What kind of issues do your clients struggle with?
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Common sticking points
I don’t know what I want to do
I’m not sure what my (transferable) skills are
I don’t feel confident
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Unsticking the stuckness
I don’t know what I want to do:
possible selves
I’m not sure what my skills are
strengths cards
I don’t feel confident
acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
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Career Coaching Tool 1
Possible Selves
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“Stories we tell ourselves about ourselves in a
hypothetical future situation”
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Possible selves interventions
One to ones or groups
Visualisation and narrative
As much detail as possible
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Your possible selves
Who could I be?
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A possible selves intervention• Picture in your mind’s eye, yourself in two years time, working as a …
• Where are you working? What’s the atmosphere like?
• Who are you working with? What are your relationships like?
• When you arrive in the morning, what’s the first thing you do? What’s next?
• What do you wear to work?
• How do feel about going into work in the mornings?
• When you tell people what you do, how do you feel?
• What are your weekends like these days?
• What do your family think about your new job?
• What is the thing that’s most different from your current you?
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A possible selves exercise…
Helps to clarify career goals
Increases motivation
Helps to get clients to see beyond the barriers
Helps clients to identify their next steps
Allows clients to think about themselves holistically
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Career Coaching Tool 2
Strengths
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What are strengths?
• Things you enjoy doing and things you do well
• Linked to FLOW
• Positive Psychologists have identified 24 core strengths:
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WISDOMCreativityCuriosityLove of learningJudgement Perspective
COURAGEBraveryPerseveranceHonesZest
HUMANITYLoveKindnessSocial intelligence
TEMPERANCEForgivenessHumilityPrudenceSelf-regulation
JUSTICEFairnessLeadershipTeamwork
TRANSCENDENCEAppreciation of beautyGratitudeHumourSpiritualityHope
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Strengths at work
• All associated with well-being and fulfilment
• Using strengths at work links with higher levels of satisfaction, engagement and meaning
• The more strengths you use at work, the higher your job satisfaction
Harzer, & Ruch, (2013)Litman-Ovadia, & Davidovitch, (2010)
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Step 1
identify your strengths:
www.authentichappiness.combrief strengths test
Strengths cards
Step 2
Identify examples of times you have used these strengths
Step 3
Think about different jobs in which the strengths could be a real asset
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A strengths exercise…
Helps to get clients to identify their strengths
Makes people feel more positive about themselves
A useful starting point for identifying job ideas
Allows clients to think about themselves holistically
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Career Coaching Tool 3
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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ACT
Acceptance of internal
experiences Committing to a values driven life
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Acceptance: minimising the impact
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Commitment: identifying values
• Imagine your retirement party.
• Who is going to be there and what would you like them to say about you?
• Write a few notes down and discuss this with a partner
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An ACT intervention…
Helps clients to identify their career goals through their values
Helps clients to reduce the impact of their negative thoughts
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What next?
Could you use these three tools to help clients navigate their careers?
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