This session aims to explore the topic of career wellbeing and its fundamental importance in underpinning our ability to manage our careers effectively. Wellbeing relates to our productivity at work as well as the prevention of burnout. Taking care of our well-being can also boost our job satisfaction, creativity, relationship-building skills and problem-solving abilities. It is essential to career longevity.
Yet career wellbeing is difficult to define. There may be overlap but also differences between the concepts of wellbeing at work and career wellbeing.
The sessions aims to explore some key questions:
- What are the connections between career and wellbeing?
- How might career wellbeing differ from general wellbeing at work?
- How can individuals manage wellbeing within a career?
- How can the lenses of calling and career resonance help us to shape our understanding of career wellbeing?
- How can we as practitioners manage our career and wellbeing?
This sessions will offer some scene-setting on the concept and definition of career wellbeing and then explore the topic from the novel perspectives of calling and career resonance and to consider how these lenses might to help those we support to build more resilient and sustainable ways of managing their career well-being.
Drawing on the principle of ‘care for the caretaker’ the session will also create space for us to reflect on our own career wellbeing and ways that we can ensure we are in the best possible shape to manage our career wellbeing before we attend to that of others.
This session will be interactive, and will comprise a series of cumulative input sessions, small-group discussions in break-out rooms and whole group sense-making. As hosts of this session, NICEC Fellows Dr Cathy Brown and Kate Mansfield look forward to seeing you there.