Career Development
There are a vast number of theories that support the idea of career development within an organization. Career development theories focus on influential factors like an employee’s occupational preference, the reason for changing their work environment, and determining if the individual will remain or separate themselves from their employment (Brown, 2012).
Brown, D. (2012). Career information, career counseling, and career development. 10th Edition. Boston: Pearson.
Career Development
Coaching - Strengths & Weaknesses
"It's not just individuals who benefit from one-on-one coaching - their employers can gain immensely, too. But in an industry without universally accepted standards, all the parties need to be clear about their goals and how to reach them" - Stratford Sherman and Alyssa Freas (2004, p. 82)
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Sherman, S. & Freas, A. (2004). The wild wild west of executive coaching. Harvard Business Review, p. 82-90.
Coaching: Strengths & Weaknesses
Date Written: April 2018
Bolles' Flower Exercise
The Flower Exercise is a diagram made up of seven petals (including the center) explained in great detail in his book called What Color is Your Parachute?, which originally published in 1970. The reason behind the number seven is because there are seven ways of thinking about yourself, or seven ways of describing who you are in using the language of the workplace (Bolles, 2017).
Bolles, R. N. (2017). What color is your parachute?: 2017 edition. New York: Ten Speed Press.
Petal 2
You & Your Workplace
Petal 6
You & Responsibility
Petal 1
You & People
Petal 3
You & Skills
Petal 5
You & Your Knowledge
Petal 7
You & Geography
Petal 4
You & Your Purpose