Leverage your career competencies to map out your route to personal and professional success Career coach Inge De Clippeleer Ever wondered what differentiates a successful professional career from an unsuccessful one? Ever wondered where your career is taking you in the next 10 years? This session will provide you some guidelines for steering your career in the right direction by outlining the basic principles of career self-management and by gaining insight into internal and external factors that influence your career success.

1. LEVERAGING YOUR CAREER COMPETENCIES:
MAPPING OUT YOUR ROUTE TO SUCCESS
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3. There are three kinds of people:
Those who MAKE things happen
Those who WATCH what happens
Those who WONDER what happened
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4. AIM
Providing you some guidelines for steering your
career in the right direction
 Outlining the basic principles of self-management
 Gaining insight into internal and external factors that
influence your career success
 Internal: helping you to define your preferred career values and moves
 External: helping you to manage your professional context
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6. MY CAREER?
 Until now, I feel successful in my career because
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7. CRUCIAL INFLUENCES
What is my
professional identity?
(wants & skills)
What advances Who shapes
my career? my career?
My career
context
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8. Self-
directedness
Self-
reflection
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9. “Luck is what happens
when preparation
meets opportunity.”
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11. WHAT DO YOU WANT?
ON VALUES AND CAREER PATHS
 What are your intrinsic career values?
 What career path do you want to pursue?
Are you fundamentally an expert or a manager?
 What is a realistic time perspective?
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12. WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT?
ON STRENGTHS AND PASSION
How easy is it to you
to name your strengths?
One knows 50%
One develops 25%
One communicates 10%
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14. WHAT SHAPES YOUR CAREER?
ON STRUCTURES
 Employer safety habits: importance of networking
 What are the characteristics of the internal labour market?
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15. WHO SHAPES YOUR CAREER?
ON CAREER INFLUENCERS
 The importance of colleagues: boss, peers or subordinates?
 Build your social network
 Functional, strategic, developmental and broad
 Complementarity
 Be proactive in asking for feedback and advice
 “Don’t wait until opportunity knocks on your door”
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16. “Reasonable people
adapt themselves to
the world.
Unreasonable
people attempt to
adapt the world to
themselves.
All progress,
therefore, depends
on unreasonable
people.”
G.B. Shaw
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17. FEEL LIKE SOME MORE?
 Young Management Programme (15 April 2013)
 Executive MBA (September 2013)
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18. Defining your path to
Selling the future
Deva Rangarajan
success
Inge De Clippeleer
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(Level 0) 0.2
(Level 0)
Leveraging your customers Negotiating Power
Marion Debruyne Katia Tieleman
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