The document discusses a golf management career program that uses golf as a metaphor for life and career development. The program aims to help students clarify career goals, develop self-awareness and lifelong career skills. Key objectives are for students to identify interests, values and decision-making styles, and recognize potential barriers to achieving career goals like self-limiting beliefs. The program teaches that success involves sustained effort, a support system, and shaping one's own future rather than following others.

1. Hitting the Target?

2. Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots- but you have to play the ball where it lies. Bobby Jones

3. Think about……. Motivations Purpose Preparation Inner Game Techniques Shots Practice Course Management Problems

4. UHI BA Golf Management Pilot Career Programme

5. Golf…a mirror of life and career

6. open the mind of the learners instigate creative, holistic thinking inspire, influence and motivate personalise get attention

7. encourage insight & introspection create memorable images identify problems generate emotion

8. Rationale Customised Based on the use of metaphor Personally engaging Focused on sustained employability and lifelong career development Founded on the concept of career as lifelong and dynamic An exemplar

9. Key Aims

10. To help students to begin to clarify career and life aspirations To inspire and instil confidence in students to achieve meaningful career and life goals To relate the concept of “career” to the individual’s interests, aptitudes and needs and their vision of themselves in the context of their future world of work

11. To empower students to make positive, personal, self-directed career-related decisions To help students identify and develop lifelong career management and sustainable employability skills and attitudes

12. Learning Objectives At the end of the programme, we hoped students would be able to…………..

13. Identify their own interests, values, skills and personal qualities in the context of career and life planning Articulate their own decision-making style, definition of success and life/career drivers and goals

14. Identify potential traps and hazards in achieving their career goals including self-limiting beliefs Present an outline CV and key messages they wish to present to employers

15. Time

16. Success

17. Drivers/Ambitions

18. Traps & Hazards

19. The Inner Game

20. Decision Making

22. So far….. How have things been going for you? What have you been spending your time doing? What has worked well- what good shots have you played? What hazards have you encountered and how did you deal with them? What have you learned?

23. Think ahead…. What lies up ahead for you? How are you feeling about this? What traps or problems might be out there? What tactics will you adopt? Who can help?

24. At the end of the round…. What do you want to have achieved? How do you define success?

25. Failure F Follow the crowd A Assume things I Ignore help L Lack motivation U Undersell yourself R React badly to rejection E End the process too early

26. Success S Select a clear target & strategy U Understand what makes you tick C Create a support community C Commit to make things happen E Enjoy promoting your abilities S Shape your own future S Sustain effort over a lifetime

27. Ambition Balls

28. Hazards & Traps

29. Myths & Self-limiting Beliefs One right way Only one choice Life starts some time in the future No way I could get paid to do a job I like The path is clear you just need to find it Making a mistake is deadly Dreams have no bearing Quick fixes are possible There are no jobs out there

30. The game of golf is…. “ 90% mental and 10% mental” “ you must change your inner thoughts to change your outcome”

31. The Inner Game Attitude Belief Commitment

32. Career Animals

33. Visual CV

34. How did the course go?

35. fun and practical

36. contextualised and fantastic

37. all relevant

38. a lot of effort put in to the planning which helped make this a success

39. very beneficial

40. very much appreciated

41. we all took many positives from the sessions and hope more students get such a detailed and course specific experience as we did

42. Never give up “ I always make a total effort, even when the odds seem entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.” Arnold Palmer