Program 1 - What Do I Want?
To lay a strong foundation for finding a career or job that provides you with meaning and fulfillment, you must first determine where you personally look for meaning. You may already have some general ideas, but the more clarity and precision you have before beginning, the more effective and efficient your search will be.
Inner Research discovery guides will help you identify and prioritize your most compelling sources of meaning and fulfillment. Each guide approaches your personal experience of meaning through a different doorway and directs your exploration by activating memory, imagination or analytic burrowing. Not all the guides will speak to you equally, but persevere, if you can, as many “find gold” in the least expected exercises.
Clear the Decks
Clear your emotional channels of anger or frustration left over from a previous work situation. Learn from these experiences so they don't get repeated. (This guide may be skipped if it isn’t relevant to your situation.)
Meaning Quest
Take a guided tour to locate sources of personal meaning. Visit early memories and moments of resonance. Identify your most closely held values. Discover your personal and unique definition of success.
Personal Pillars
Create a Work Genogram and a Work Autobiography to discover the influences that have shaped your work choices to date.
Strengths Inventory
Meaning is often found by tapping personal strengths and building on them. Two Discovery Guide exercises will assist you in identifying those skills and attributes you use most naturally and effectively.
Professional Mission
Identify your chief motivator: Articulate the core purpose or guiding principal that underlies and propels your work endeavors.
Putting It All Together: Your Career Vision
Synthesize the important elements from the discovery guides into your vision of meaningful work. Your Career Vision will contain what you stand for, your personal aspirations, and the impact you want to have.
Two Optional Add-On Resources for those wanting to explore further:
Strength Finder 2.0
A book and companion website providing excellent strengths assessment tool for those wanting an additional resource for identifying strengths and their application to the workplace.
Strength Finder 2.0 book, on Amazon, $13.50.
Elevations™ Career Assessment
Generate a comprehensive online self-profile of your values, skills, career interests and personality traits to reveal patterns and show how your aspirations and abilities fit into the world of work.
$49; to be accessed through Success from the Inside Out.
How to Get Started with “What Do I Want?”
Once you’ve purchased Program 1, we will schedule a 1-1.5 hour launch session to get to know each other and familiarize you with the scope of the Program. Then you will proceed, self-paced, to complete the Discovery Guides in the recommended order. Email – as much as you need - is used for questions or checking in. The balance (2.5-3 hours) of our meeting time (phone or in person) is scheduled as needed to support, guide and troubleshoot your progress.
4 hours individual meetings and 6 Inner Research discovery guides - Total... $569.
Recommended: Completion within two months.
Optional in-person sessions for California Bay Area residents.