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Impactful Career Planning Requires More Personal

ControlStuart Mitchell & Peter Tate

How Did You Get Here?

Crisis Opportunity

Inte

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Promotion

Redundancy

Personal Issues

Management Scheme

Personal Career PlanC

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The Change and Control Matrix

Increasing Personal Control

The Gig Economy

Personal Service Companies

Self-Employment

Portfolio Careers

Is It Right For Everyone?

Rotter’s Locus of Control

Internal

• I can determine my future

• I make things happen

• Look what I can do!

External

• I have no control over my future

• Things just happen around me

• Why bother trying?

Personal Control and the Reality

Gap

Vision without action is a daydream.

Action without vision is a nightmare.

- Japanese Proverb

“People in this country have

had enough of experts”

“Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else

depends”

Nancy Kline

How Do We Get People To Think?

How Do We Get People To

Think?

Everything should be made as simpleas possible, and no simpler.

Albert Einstein

Skills (DIPT)Interests (PIASEO)

PersonalityCompass (Anchors)

Values

“Build Your Own Rainbow” Hopson and Scally

Self Assessment and Perception of Control

I choose my answers

I interpret my results

Reflective review

I fool myself

Reality Checking

• Self employment assessment

• Values (Job satisfaction) match

• Leadership Needs

• 360 tool

• Personality/Character insights

Reality Checking

Self Assessment Cross-check

• Values match

• Vision and Action planning cross check

• Personal Network Feedback

[CASE STUDY}

Impactful Career Planning Requires

ModeratedPersonal Control

Any Questions?

Contact Us

Stuart Mitchellstuart@stuartmitchellgroup.com

Peter Tatepeter@onlinecareertools.com

Skills (DIPT)

Interests (PIASEO)

Personality (Myers-Briggs)

Compass (Anchors)

Work Values