Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ]

29/08/07 Personal Development Plan - Career Anchors

LONDON, UK - I recently attended a Personal Development Plan workshop in our office. It was good, made me think about my career direction and what short-term goals I need to achieve the long-term ones. We were sent away with a Edgar H.Schein Career Anchors ‘Self Assessment’ as a litmus test for what our career decisions pivot on.

40 weighted questions later and here’s mine, nothing new then!

EC - Entrepreneurial Creativity
What you would not give up is the opportunity to create an organization or enterprise of your own, built on your abilities and your willingness to take risks and to overcome obstacles. You will go out on your own as soon as you feel you can manage it. This need is so strong you will tolerate many failures throughout your career in the search for that ultimate success.

CH - Pure Challenge
The only meaningful reason for pursuing a job or career is that it permits you to win out over the seemingly impossible. Novelty, variety and difficulty become ends in themselves, and if something is easy it becomes immeadiately boring.

I’m also an Extrovert Intuitive Thinker.

Tags: career, graduate, pdp, personal development plan, quiz, Reuters, test, working

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04/10/07 Personal Development Plans

Glad to hear you got some value from your PDP course - sounds like a good one.

I’ve been using a program called Magic Hats to build my own personal development plan - it’s really been a great help for me.

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