Week 5: Career resilience – moving forward
Introduction
Last week you explored external challenges to your resilience, from issues affecting us all globally, to changes within your workplace. This week you will look at tools and tactics that can help you to flourish and move your career forward. You’ll look at self-belief and self-efficacy, what you believe you can achieve and how people continue towards their goals in the face of difficulties.
Do continue to note down your thoughts and responses to the activities either in a notebook or in your online toolkit.
Get started with Week 5 by watching this video:
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Transcript: Video 1 Introduction to Week 5
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This week, you’ll look at various ways to improve your resilience. You’ll start by considering self-esteem and self-efficacy, exploring your motivation, and identifying tactics for dealing with setbacks. You’ll use the GROW goal setting model, and develop your own successful career narrative. You’ll finish by learning to look at challenges from a different angle.
Video 1 Introduction to Week 5
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By the end of this week, you should be able to:
- explain the difference between self-esteem and self-efficacy
- consider personal goals and tactics to overcome setbacks
- create your personal career narrative
- understand the importance of reflecting and reframing in building career resilience.