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1.2.4 Staff Development

Working Group

The Staff Development Working Group (SDWG) such as study visits, conferences and seminars.
supports knowledge sharing and skills deve- At the Euroguidance network meetings in Prague
lopment within the Euroguidance network. and Bratislava the members of SDWG facilitated
The group carried out an internal survey of the the interactive parts of the sessions. The possibi-
network members to find out what the most lity of running online training sessions (webinars)
needed competences are in relation to the Eu- for the network was discussed and related plans
roguidance work. The survey revealed that the made for 2017.
most sought-after skill was to understand and to
be up-to-date with national and European level The SDWG promoted good practices inside the
developments in the field of guidance. In addition, network, such as the National Career Guidance
networking and efficient communication with Awards, which in 2016 took place in 4 countries
professionals as well as organisational skills are (the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hunga-
in high demand. ry and Serbia). A common compendium on the
Awards for good guidance practices in these
The SDWG gave its support to events addressed countries was prepared and shared across the
to network members and guidance counsellors, whole network.

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