Career Transition: Design It Your Way
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.