i think i can how attitudes affect altitude and career goal obtainment i think i can
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I Think I Can
How Attitudes Affect Altitude and Career Goal Obtainment
I Think I Can
Objective • Self Efficacy• Outcome Expectation• Stress Hardy Personality• Self-Actualizers
Understanding Our
Customers
• Mastery Experiences• Social Persuasion • Myth Dismissal• Social Modeling • Person-Centered Approach
Helping Customers
Obtain Goals
Self-Efficacy Theory
Albert Bandura
Understanding Our Customers
The belief in one’s capability to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage prospective situations
Self-Efficacy
How to become self-
sufficient
How to obtain/retain
employment
How to successfully
interview
How to job search
Understanding Our Customers
Beliefs about the outcome of performing particular tasks
Outcome
Participating in Work Activities
Cooperating with Child Support
Attending Scheduled Appointments
Going to College or Vocational
School
Expectations
Self-Efficacy & Outcome Expectations
Determine How customers Perceive goals, tasks, &
challenges
The greater the perceived barriers to the
obtainment of a goal, the less likely the
customer is to pursue the tasks to obtain that goal
Self-Efficacy & Outcome Expectations
Perceived Barrier
Commitment to Goal Pursuit
Self-Efficacy & Outcome Expectations
Determine How customers Approach goals, tasks &
challenges
Customers are attracted to activities that make them feel competent
Customers like to do things that they already know how to do
Customers are attracted to activities that they feel they can be successful at
Customers like success stories, theirs and others
Weak Self-Efficacy
Quickly
lose
confidence
in personal
abilities
Weak Self-Efficacy
Avoid
Challenging
Tasks
Weak Self-Efficacy
Focus on
personal
failings
and
negative
outcomes
Weak Self-Efficacy
Believe that
difficult
tasks and
situations
are beyond
their
capabilities
Strong Self-EfficacyThese Customers Are Able To
View challenging problems as tasks to be mastered
Develop deeper interest in the activities in which they participate
Form a stronger sense of commitment to their interests and activities
Recover quickly from setbacks and disappointments
Strong Self-EfficacySome customers possess Innate Abilities To Be StrongThese natural abilities enable them to:
Have a strong self-efficacy
Reach their goals
Think positive Stress Hardy PersonalitySelf-Actualizers
Stress Hardy Personality
Susan Kobasa
Commitment Contro
l
Challenge
These 3 Personality traits possessed by some individuals allow them to be:
More Resistant to Stress
Better Protected from Stress
Stress Hardy Personality-3Cs
Stress Hardy Personality-3Cs
Control
The amount of control that
customers feel that they have
over a stressor/activity, will
determine how they approach or
deal with that activity
Customers develop deeper interest in the activities in which they participate
Stress Hardy Personality-3Cs
Commitment
When individuals are committed to
something, they tend to be more
motivated and willing to put in
more effort
Customers are more committed to their interest and activities
Stress Hardy Personality-3Cs
Challenge
Stressful events are seen as
challenges instead of threats and
the customers are able to regain
faith in themselves and try again
Customers recover quickly from setbacks and disappointments
Characteristics of Self-Actualizers
Abraham Maslow
Self-Actualizers Creative
Spontaneous
Realistically Oriented
Identify with man kind
Resist conformity to culture
Autonomous and Independent
Transcend environment vs cope
Values and attitudes are democratic
Problem Centered vs Self Centered
Intimate relationships are profound and deep vs superficial
Accept themselves, others and things for what/who they are
Career Goal Obtainment
How Can Workforce
HelpCustomers?
Helping Customers Obtain Goals
Workforce programs
can assist customers
in obtaining goals
by helping them to
strengthen their
self-efficacy.
Increasing Self-Efficacy
Succeeding @ Tasks
Failing @ Tasks
Self-Efficacy & Outcome Expectations
Weak Self-Efficacy is Enhanced By: Sanctions
Job Termination
Poor Interviewing Skills
Inadequate Assessments
Barriers-Barriers-Barriers
Inadequate Job Placements
Helping Customers Obtain Goals
Helping Customers Obtain Goals
Self-Efficacy Strengthens Through: Mastery Experiences
Social Persuasion
Myth Dismissal
Social Modeling
Person-Centered Approach
Mastery Experiences
Creating
Mastery ExperiencesWhat Are Mastery Experiences
Experiences in which the customer feels successful
Experiences in which the customer feels accomplished
Most effective way to increase self-efficacy
Mastery Experiences
Meeting Participation
Performing well at a worksite
Graduating from a program
Receiving an award or acknowledgement
Mastery Experiences
Social Persuasion
Providing
Social PersuasionWhat is Social Persuasion
Verbally encouraging customers to believe in their own capabilities
Helps customers to feel that they can succeed even if they don’t really believe that they can
Myth Dismissal
Providing
Myth Dismissal What is Myth Dismissal Correcting the customer’s false
perception of task outcomes
How Do We Dismiss the Myth?
Explore customer’s perceived outcome and discuss realistic outcomes
Explore customer’s perceived barriers and discuss real barriers
Social Modeling Experiences
Creating
Social Modeling What Are Social Modeling Experiences
Experiences in which the customer has an
opportunity
to see similar people successfully completing
tasks and reaching goals
Commonalities must exist between the
customer and the
person being modeled
Commonalities increase the chances of the customer
being able to relate to the person being modeled Another customer or program participant
Similar Backgrounds
Family Members
Program Staff
Classmates
Neighbors
Social Modeling
Person-Centered Approach
Utilizing
Person-Centered Approach
What is a Person-Centered Approach Case manager is able to enter into a person to
person relationship with client
Case manager treats the customer with unconditional positive regard
Case manager can convey empathetic understanding to the customer
Customer feels as though he/she is accepted unconditionally
Case manager is Genuine
Person-Centered Approach
Unconditional Positive Regard
Empathetic Understanding for Customer
Climate for Change
We Can Do ItWe
Have the Power to
Change the Way
Our
Customers Think
Useful Resources Websites Social Cognitive Career Theory www.guidance-research.org
Susan Kobasa-Stress Hardiness www.stresscourse.tripod.com
Albert Bandura-Self Efficacy Theory www.learningtheories.com
Carl Rogers-Person-Centered Approach
http://www.ahpweb.org/rowan_bibliography/chapter6.html
Self-Efficacy Theory -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy
Thank You!
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