This document provides guidance on leveraging career competencies and mapping out a successful route. It outlines self-management principles and internal/external factors influencing career success. Internally, it focuses on defining preferred career values and moves. Externally, it addresses managing one's professional context. The document emphasizes self-reflection, developing strengths, building networks, and adapting to opportunities rather than waiting for them.

1. LEVERAGING YOUR CAREER COMPETENCIES:
MAPPING OUT YOUR ROUTE TO SUCCESS
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There are three kinds of people:
Those who MAKE things happen
Those who WATCH what happens
Those who WONDER what happened

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AIM
Providing you some guidelines for steering your
career in the right direction
 Outlining the basic principles of self-management
 Gaining insight into internal and external factors that
influence your career success
 Internal: helping you to define your preferred career values and moves
 External: helping you to manage your professional context
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MY CAREER?
 Until now, I feel successful in my career because
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CRUCIAL INFLUENCES
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What is my
professional identity?
(wants & skills)
Who shapes
my career?
What advances
my career?
My career
context
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Self-
reflection
Self-
directedness

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“Luck is what happens
when preparation
meets opportunity.”

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WHAT DO YOU WANT?
ON VALUES AND CAREER PATHS
 What are your intrinsic career values?
 What career path do you want to pursue?
Are you fundamentally an expert or a manager?
 What is a realistic time perspective?
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WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT?
ON STRENGTHS AND PASSION
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How easy is it to you
to name your strengths?
One knows
One develops
One communicates
50%
25%
10%
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WHAT SHAPES YOUR CAREER?
ON STRUCTURES
 Employer safety habits: importance of networking
 What are the characteristics of the internal labour market?
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WHO SHAPES YOUR CAREER?
ON CAREER INFLUENCERS
 The importance of colleagues: boss, peers or subordinates?
 Build your social network
 Functional, strategic, developmental and broad
 Complementarity
 Be proactive in asking for feedback and advice
 “Don’t wait until opportunity knocks on your door”
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“Reasonable people
adapt themselves to
the world.
Unreasonable
people attempt to
adapt the world to
themselves.
All progress,
therefore, depends
on unreasonable
people.”
G.B. Shaw

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FEEL LIKE SOME MORE?
 Management Acceleration Programme (October
2013)
 Executive MBA (September 2013)
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