Who am I? What do I want? What do I Have to Offer?
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Thursday |
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28th June 2012 |
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18:30 - 21:00 (Presentation starts at 19.00) |
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One Alfred Place, 1 Alfred Place, London, WC1E 7EB |
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Goodge Street Station |
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£26.00 for members; £36.00 for non-members and guests |
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IS YOUR CAREER UNCLEAR?
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"FIND ME"
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Who am I? What do I Want? What do I Have to Offer?
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Gwendolyn Parkin; HBS MBA, MA UKCP Psychotherapy
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Francesca Ecsery; HBS MBA
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Do you ever feel lost in your career? Are you worried that you may be ‘found out’ before you ‘find yourself’? |
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You are not alone. Despite unprecedented career choices and support services, a majority of business professionals feel more lost than ever in a sea of career issues, and find it difficult to answer the most basic questions of Who Am I? What Do I Want? What Do I Have to Offer? This is further complicated by Social Media solutions, including Branding, which can transmit this lack of clarity in written content instantly across the globe with unlimited shelf time…
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Although many face these dilemmas, it is difficult to know where to begin. ‘FIND ME!’ is a process which has an unexpected but essential starting point for finding oneself and answers to career issues: the analysis of our most valuable asset, our Work and Life Experience (8760 hours per year!). The output creates a DataBase of Me including sections such as: 1). Values, Traits, Interests and Patterns; 2). Skill Sets and Evidence; 3). Role Requirements; 4).Work Experience Analysis: quantitatively and factually based; and 5). an Observation Log: for ongoing data collection. The ‘FIND ME!’ process and Database of Me have many benefits and applications including: |
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- A Foundation and Habit of Solid Self Awareness;
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- Career Issue Insights and Solutions;
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- Authentic Content for Branding oneself, in all its written or oral formats such as CVs, Interviews, Linked In, Websites, etc.
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Gwendolyn Parkin, HBS MBA and MA and UKCP in Psychotherapy, has created this approach from her 30 years of client and previous work experience. Starting with the client’s most relevant and urgent issues, the ‘FIND ME!’ process enables in-depth insights and results with numerous career dilemmas such as maximising employability and ‘promotability’, developing authority as a leader, finding meaning beyond ‘is this it?’, dealing with redundancy, shifting negative and repetitive patterns and coping with corporate politics among many others; while simultaneously building Solid Self Awareness and inevitably a career and life which ‘fit’. As the approach integrates a range of disciplines from Psychotherapy to Neuroscience to Business Analysis; it endeavours to surface most of what is relevant. |
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Attendees should come away from this event with the following outcomes : 1). an introduction to the ‘FIND ME!’ process; 2). an understanding of how Solid Self Awareness by Work and Life Experience analysis is essential for solving career issues; 3). familiarisation with DataBase of Me and its 5 key categories, and how it can be applied to numerous career issues and branding vehicles; 4). initial insights about one’s own issues via the material, examples and group discussion; 5). an observation log (provided) to enable insights to continue post event.
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This event – “FIND ME!” is the first of a 2 part series – the second part “BRAND ME!” will be scheduled in the autumn. However, it will also include an introduction to how output from the Find Me Database can be used in branding oneself which will be covered in more detail in “BRAND ME!” later in the year.
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Gwendolyn Parkin is a Consultant, Psychotherapist and the Director of Integral. Her primary focus is enabling clients to create careers and lives based on what is most Integral to them. Ms. Parkin is also an Officer, VP of Careers and Board Member of the Harvard Business School Club of London as well as the London Liaison for HBS Alumni Career Services, Boston. Additionally, for the School of Life (Alain de Botton creation to support how to live life well), she is a Staff Psychotherapist providing the MOT Psychotherapy and Career Service. For both the HBS Club and School of Life, Ms. Parkin has a reputation for creating innovative events and workshops to teach leadership and using self examination as a basis for events such How To Find A Job You Love and The Digital Job Search. Previously Ms. Parkin worked for The Boston Consulting Group in London, Boston and Munich; People Express Airlines-a start up venture- responsible for European Operations and Regional European Manager. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School; an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent College, City University; and a UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and Counselling) registration which requires extensive high quality experience and supervision for membership. Previous to this, Ms. Parkin studied English for a BA from Boston College, a Jesuit University located in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts. |
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Francesca Ecsery is a Non-Executive Director at Share plc. Previously she worked as Global Business Development Director and UK General Manager at Cheapflights Media since 2007 with an extensive experience encompassing consultancy with McKinsey, marketing with PepsiCo, general management in a range of blue-chip travel companies including STA Travel, ThornEMI, Thomas Cook and Going Places, through to entrepreneurial activity working with VCs to set up, establish and exit internet-based travel businesses. Francesca has been sitting on Boards since 1995 and has broad corporate governance experience. Common themes running through her career are a consumer-focused environment and a deep understanding of what drives people, be they customers, colleagues, suppliers or other stakeholders. In her 20+ years in retail, travel and tourism, Francesca has built a reputation for injecting energy into organisations, leading large teams and managing substantial budgets to develop new business areas and improve existing operations and profitability. A graduate of Geneva University in Political Science and International Relations, Francesca also holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and is a Career Club Liaison for the HBS Club of London. She speaks 6 languages is a keen skier and a qualified yoga teacher. |
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Canapes and Drinks will be served. Guests are welcome
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Alternatively contact Janet Talbut on events@hbsa.org.uk / Tel: 01799 513892
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Event Date:
Thursday, 06/28/12 6:30pm - 9:00pm [ iCal ]
Location:
One Alfred Place
1 Alfred Place
London, WC1E 7EB
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