Method evaluation
Advantages:
- brings forth personal priorities, to complete or replace conformity to the
priorities imposed by others or the system; - involves significant people in achieving the goal and improves interpersonal
communication; - helps avoid imprudent, resource consuming, doomed actions;
- contributes to discovering the reasons and rewards for sustained action. Over
time, activities unrecognised as bringing satisfaction tend to lose their vigour,
decrease, or cease; - leads to becoming aware of the consequences of inaction, but leaves it to the
client whether to have initiative or not; - calls for help from significant persons and contributes to the update of the
personal contact network; - involves the idea of career planning, which strengthens self-confidence and
uniqueness of the person in a life situation; - favours identifying and rallying internal and external resources to achieve the
goal; - builds the idea that personality, abilities, motives, interests are subject to
change, but may keep or increase their value; - puts in perspective the professional competences the individual possesses or
may acquire; - foresees interaction and determination with one’s own career intervention;
- fights the routine model in performing the professional role;
- requires defining one’s personal priorities in terms of urgency and
importance; - shapes the attitude from gathering impressions to anticipating success;
- creates a non-compulsory but desirable logic of things necessary to achieve
the goal.
Disadvantages:
- often criticised for disregarding the content of learning in favour of method;
- does not imply inference of success in a perfect logical project schema;
- restrains interventions such as “momentary inspiration” or “bright idea” in
long-term career planning;