The concept of life shapers
Life shapers are people who think and act with self-confidence. They see their lives as companies, which they shape according to their own values and goals. In crisis situations, they do not fall into a victim role. Actively offering instead of passively waiting. Personal initiative instead of a prescribed career path. A range of skills and not a hermetic profession. Most of the characteristics of life shapers point towards independence - independence as an inner attitude. What all these people have in common is a special awareness of development, within which self-organized and lifelong learning is internalized and actively lived as an integral part.
Clarity about your own portfolio of skills
Life shapers take a proactive approach to their own careers and define their individual path of further training and personal development. In terms of self-organized learning, they are able to review their own skills portfolio. In their work, life shapers analyze the gaps in their knowledge and skills and take it upon themselves to close these gaps. Successfully completed additional training or acquired certificates are a building block of this portfolio, as they improve career opportunities and provide personal security. In addition to this knowledge building, the development and regular training of a wide range of skills is just as important in order to improve the quality of your own employability .
More opportunities on the labor market
Having more opportunities in the job market is closely linked to the qualifications acquired, but above all to the skills available. Competencies are skills that a person has implemented and can also apply. Examples include teamwork, conflict management and Decision-making ability. In contrast to knowledge, the special feature of competencies is that they can only be developed and refined through regular testing, i.e. through training. It is therefore not enough to simply read a book or attend a training course to build up skills; it is advisable to practise the skills in your professional and private life.
What is meant by personal portfolio
The various skills that life shapers have acquired result in their personal portfolio, with which they enter the job market. The term personal portfolio - borrowed from stock market jargon - describes what more and more people have: no longer just a clearly defined profession, but a spectrum of different skills and knowledge. In other words, their portfolio. If something is lost because it has been overtaken by technical developments, for example, some of the skills previously acquired still retain their value. The offer that life shapers can make to their employers therefore includes more than just practicing a profession. The prerequisite for this, however, is that life shapers have a clear picture of the scope and value of their personal portfolio and can actively represent this to the outside world.
More diversity thanks to an active lifestyle
More and more people are practicing several "professions" at the same time. This is pure lifestyle. The driving force behind modern "multiple occupations" is not only material necessity, but also the enjoyment of a particular activity or enthusiasm for a new field, which are becoming increasingly important.
Modern areas such as digital media, but also traditional industries, lend themselves to this model of life design. Part-time jobs are often an opportunity for life shapers to gently enter a new world. Working in their part-time job, provided it was not chosen purely out of material compulsion, offers these people additional satisfaction, fulfillment and motivation and can also be the first step into new professional territory without losing their footing.
Such changes have a strengthening effect on a person's overall job satisfaction. After all, every job has something of an "internal expiration date".
How do you become a life designer?
The first step usually involves an in-depth analysis of the current situation at work and in private life. This involves recording interests, skills, competencies and personal values as well as professional goals and possibilities for realization. Such assessments can be carried out by the people concerned on a self-taught basis using suitable tools (see literature tips) or they can take part in seminars on career planning. As a first step, bank employees and other interested individuals can test their own competence fitness confidentially, anonymously and free of charge using skillaware's onlineself-reflection .
Many companies are also setting a good example and taking advantage of this untapped development potential: more and more companies are offering their employees personal career and career planning in the sense of further training . They can promote part-time work for men and women, enable internal further development as part of the portfolio approach and recognize experience outside the profession. This is the responsibility of companies. The conscious handling of one's own professional life and the necessary active steps are part of the Self-responsibility of future life shapers.
Personal development can be initiated and set in motion with relatively little effort. Many professional coaches offer corresponding consulting and seminar concepts. The skillaware career coaches is a good first port of call here. You can review your skills portfolio with them at orientation meeting and define suitable measures for development. You can find more information about the orientation meetings and a list of skillaware career coaches here.
Literature tips
Career portfolio for professionals
Media network for the maintenance and further development of employability
Whether they are looking for their dream job, about to embark on a new career, self-employed or further training - the career portfolio helps professionals to gain insights that show them where they need to prioritize in order to be successful. The career portfolio for professionals is self-taught and can be worked through independently.
ISBN 978-3-905153-91-0
CHF 60.00
Life entrepreneur, Peter Baumgartner
A workshop in book form for people who want to shape their own lives. Concrete calls to action, mixed with lively stories, encourage readers to set out on the path to new solutions.
ISBN 978-3-905153-54-5
CHF 36.00
