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. The guides marked with asterisks are highly recommended; the others will add value to your search and may be particularly appropriate to your situation.
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.
*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. Optional*, to complement exercises: Strength Finder 2.0 (listed in Resources), a book with companion website that provides excellent strengths assessment tool. *Additional cost for book: $13.50.
*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.
Option: Elevations™ Career Assessment
Generate an online self-profile of your values, skills, career interests and personality traits to reveal patterns and show you how your aspirations and abilities fit into the world of work. *An additional $49 cost.
We begin with 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, at your own pace, to complete the Discovery Guides in the recommended order. The remaining 2.5-3 hours is scheduled as needed to support, guide and troubleshoot your progress. Completion within 2 months is recommended.
4 hours individual coaching, and up to 6 Inner Research discovery guides
Total... $569.
Recommended: Completion within two months.
Optional in-person sessions for California Bay Area residents.