Resources

Here is where we will collect useful articles, exercises, tools and other materials linked to some of the posts.

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Articles

Are you listening carefully? — An exploration of different levels of listening.
Expand your vistas – get into career theory — How can career theory help the reflective careers practitioner.
The questioning type — Are you thinking hard enough about the questions you use and how you use them?

Tools and models for reflective practice

Zones of impact in training — A model for thinking about the level of impact you want to achieve within training.
Zones of impact in guidance — Explaining how to apply the Zones of Impact model when working with individuals. It contains questions to help you reflect on discussions.
Past-Present-Future — (or the Trident model) A model to help you think about how much focus you are placing on Immediacy, Reflection or Action
Time-Zones — What happens when you combine the Zones model with the Trident model. Questions about what you are trying to do with a client.
Using narrative — Questions to help you explore different elements of a client’s story.
Goals and actions — A reflective practice tool for guidance workers based on Contextual Action Theory.

Tools to use with clients

Two against one — An exercise to explore career evaluation and decision making using a simplified version of the Repertory Grid technique from Personal Construct Psychology.
Confused career thinking — A number of common cognitive biases that could hinder effective career exploration and decision making. Can be used as a discussion prompt for group or individual work.
Six questions — A framework for assessing and investigating career options based on the questions ‘why’, ‘what’, ‘who’, ‘how’, ‘where’ and ‘when’.
Who has influenced your thinking? — Exploratory questions based on the modes of influence from Community Interaction theory.
What is a career? — Twelve different ways in which someone might conceptualise the idea of ‘career’.
Role combo — An exercise to help people think about the various roles they might play within a single job.
Two birds — one stone — A tool to look at action planning for multiple goals.

Theory summaries

Gottfredson — Circumscription and compromise.
Theory of work adjustment
Existential career theory