Guidance is needed throughout life to help individuals reach their full potential. It helps people explore their strengths and interests, determine personal values, set goals, explore career options, improve efficiency, build relationships, and accept responsibility for the future. If properly guided, every person will be satisfied in life. Guidance empowers individuals to become integrated and actualize their talents to the fullest extent.

1. Need of Guidance

2. Guidance is needed at every stage of
development right from the beginning of
life till the end. Everyone needs guidance
at one time or the other. If properly
guided, every individual will be satisfied
in life.

3. Why do one needs Guidance?

4. Exploring-self:
• The basic aim is to help an individual increase his/her
understanding and acceptance of self; his/her physical
development, his/her
intelligence, aptitudes, interest, personality traits, attitudes
and values, his/her achievements in scholastic and other
spheres, his aspirations and life-style preferences and
above all his here -and-now needs which keep him/her
highly motivated to behave positively or otherwise.

5. Determining Values:
• The second aim is to help an individual recognize
the importance of values, explore different sets of
values, determine personal values and examine
them in relation to the norms of society and their
importance in planning for success in life.

6. Setting Goals:
• This aim is to help an individual set goal for
him self and relate these to the values
determined by him so that he recognizes the
importance of long-range planning.

7. Explore the World of Work:
• The aim here is to help the individual
explore the World of Work in relation to his
self-exploration, his value system and goals
that he has set for himself to achieve success
in life.

8. Improving Efficiency:
• The individual is helped to learn about
factors which contribute to increase
effectiveness and efficiency and to improve
his study habits.

9. Building Relationship:
• The aim is to help the individual to be aware
of his relationship with others and to note
that it is a reflection of his own feelings
about himself.

10. Accepting responsibility for the future:
• The individual is helped to develop skill in
social and personal forecasting, acquire
attitudes and skills necessary for mastering
the future.

11. To sum up, guidance empowers him
to be an integrated
individual, actualizing his potential
to the fullest.

12. by Mrs.Pratima Nayak