Career Transition: Design It Your Way

Here’s a link to a career transition program. My question to you however would be “what is your own career transition program?”. Work this one out and you will have a far better chance of making it happen.
It is all too easy to internalise the time schedules and agenda of others. Whilst external timescales obviously have importance, it is equally, if not more important to be clear about what we as individuals can realistically achieve. We need our generate our own timescales, identify and harness our own existing resources. We need learn to play to our strengths out in the world and attend to our vulnerabilities too. Let me introduce you to the Well Formed Outcomes exercise. It’s sole purpose is to help you to pin down your new career plan.

Well-Formed Outcomes Questions

1) What do you REALLY want in five years’ time? State in the positive.

2) How will you know when you have succeeded? Link it to your five senses

3) Where, when and with whom do you want this? Commit to a timescale

4) What resources do you have that will help you to achieve this? Practical, personal, external. How much of the outcome in your control. Whose help do you need with this and how can you influence them?

5) What are the wider consequences of achieving this aim? Who will be affected? What will it cost? What will be the benefit? What is good of your current circumstances that you would like to keep? What will you have to give up? Are you willing to pay the price?

6) Is your outcome helping with who you are? Does it fit with your values, identity and purpose

7) Is this ambition motivating and manageable? How committed are you to this outcome? On a scale of one to ten are you committed to taking the necessary steps?

8) Action: what is the first thing you could do that will make the biggest difference to achieving this? What other things will you need to do to achieve this? What are the barriers you will need to overcome?

9) How will you know you are on track? 5 senses and evidence of success.

Answer these nine questions as fully as you can and this way you can generate your very own career transition program. If you find them difficult to answer alone, then find yourself a playmate, one who you respect and who holds you in good heart, and, get them to ask you the questions to and write down your answers. It’s not rocket science, but, it is very effective for generating the steps you need to take in order to bring your professional dream into your reality. This way you can design your career your way.
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