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How you can continue to have a satisfying career The Satisfying Work Pack
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How you can continue to have a satisfying career
The Satisfying Work Pack
This pack provides practical tools you can use to do satisfying work. Anybody can do work they love, the art is getting somebody to pay you for doing it.
How to make this happen? One approach is to focus on the following themes.
Strengths
You can build on your strengths.
Sponsors
You can find sponsors - customers or employers - who will pay you for doing what you do best.
Success
You can do superb work and help your sponsors to achieve success.
Introduction
You can build on your strengths, find sponsors who will pay you for doing what you do best and help those people to achieve success. You can focus on your:
Satisfying Work
Sponsors
Strengths
Success
The world of work has changed. There are no long-term jobs anymore, but there are lots of projects. During our lives we may follow the same themes in our work but move from project to project. It can therefore be useful to focus on the following steps.
Step One is to clarify your strengths. These are the activities in which you deliver As, rather than Bs or Cs.
Step Two is to clarify your potential sponsors. These are the people - the customers and employers - with whom you work best. It is also to clarify the challenges they face.
Step Three is to clarify how you can use your strengths to help those people to achieve success.
The next few pages provide questions you can use to explore these themes. The pack then provides exercises you can use to build on your strengths and help people to achieve success.
Strengths
What are the deeply satisfying activities in which you deliver As,rather than Bs or Cs? What are the activities that give you positive energy? When are you in your element - at ease and yet able to excel? When do you flow, focus, finish and then, as a by-product, get a sense of fulfilment?
When do see the destination quickly? When do you go ‘A, B … and then leap to … Z’? Where do you see patterns quickly? Where do you have good personal radar - you seem to know what will happen before it happens?
Where do you have the equivalent of a photographic memory? When do you score highly on drive, detail and delivery? Where do you have a track record of always doing the basics and then adding the brilliance?
What are the activities in which you have natural self-discipline? When do you make complicated things look simple? When do you enjoy the journey as much as reaching the goal? When do you reach the goal and then add that touch of class?
When are you good at dealing with crowdedness – many things happening at the same time? What are the activities in which you are calm and then do creative problem solving by focusing on clarity, creativity and concrete results?
What is your successful style of working? Looking back, what for you have been your most satisfying projects? What made these satisfying? Looking at these projects, can you see any patterns? How can you follow these principles - plus maybe add other skills - to do satisfying work in the future?
Sponsors
Who are the kinds of people - customers or employers - with whom you work best? What are the characteristics of these people? What are the reasons why you work well with them?
When have you worked well with these kinds of people in thepast? What did you do to help them to achieve success? Whatwere the specific things you actually delivered? What were the specific benefits of delivering these things to people?
What are the present and future challenges facing these kinds ofpeople? What may be happening in their world? Looking to the future, what do they want to achieve for themselves, their team or their organisation? What is their picture of success?
Success
How can you use your strengths to help these people to tackle their challenges? What are the specific things you can actually deliver to help them to achieve their picture of success? What will be the benefits - to all the various stakeholders - of delivering these things to people?
How can you reach these people in a way that fits your values system? How can you sit alongside them, clarify what they want to achieve and share ideas? How can you, if appropriate, make clear contracts about the specific things you can deliver to help them to achieve success?
How can you perform superb work? How can you proactively keeppeople informed about your progress towards achieving the goals? How can you do everything possible to help them to achieve their picture of success?
The following pages provide exercises you can use to build on your strengths and do satisfying work.
This section starts by inviting you to clarify your long-term goals. These can be important to bear in mind when making decisions about which route to follow in your life and work.
If you wish, however, you can skip this exercise and simply move on to the exercises that invite you to clarify your strengths. Here are the exercises.
The Exercises
My Picture of Success
My Life Goals
One approach to doing satisfying work is to start by clarifying your overall lifetime picture of success. You can then, if appropriate, aim to do work that helps you to achieve these goals.
Everybody is different and everybody has different pictures of success. What is your picture? Looking back on your life when you are 80, what for you will mean you have had a successful life? This is a particularly challenging exercise, so only do it if you feel okay about it.
The exercise invites you to start from your destination and define your overall life goals. People often cover three themes when doing this exercise.
* Positive Relationships.
They focus on how they want to be remembered as a parent, partner, friend or whatever.
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* Positive Memories.
They focus on how they want to enjoy life, pursue experiences and have no regrets.
* Positive Contribution.
They focus on how they want to follow their vocation, do good work or make a positive contribution to the world.
You may prefer to clarify your life goals in another way. Whatever approach you take, however, clarifying these goals can act as a long-term compass.
You can bear in mind these aims when making key decisions. When given the opportunity to take a new job, for example, you can ask yourself:
“Will taking this step help me to achieve my longer-term picture of success?”
My Life Goals
1) I have
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Looking back in later years, I will feel my life has been successful if I have done the following things.
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My Strengths
Introduction
This exercise invites you to describe your strengths. It invites you to do the following things.
* Describe the deeply satisfying activities in which you deliver As.
These may be particular kinds of projects, tasks or other activities. Try to be as specific as possible and give concrete examples.
* Describe the activities in which you deliver Bs and Cs.
The B activities are probably those that you can do reasonably well.They are not your As, however, or maybe they were once but now youget bored doing them.
The C activities are those in which you have little aptitude or desire tolearn.
* Describe how you can build on your strengths.
Try to be as specific as possible about how you can continue to develop in the activities that you do best.
* Describe how you can, if appropriate, manage the consequences of your weaknesses.
* Describe the specific things that you could deliver for a potential sponsor – an employer or customer.
The emphasis is on what you can deliver, not what you can do. Lots of people can do lots of things, but employers and customers buy what you can deliver.
We will do more work on this theme in a later exercise called My Contribution To An Employer.
As. The deeply satisfying activities, projects or other tasks in which I deliver – or have the potential to deliver - As are:
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Bs. The activities in which I deliver Bs are:
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Cs. The activities in which I deliver Cs are:
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My Cs
The specific things I can do to build on where I deliver As are:
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Building On My Strengths
The specific things I can do to manage the consequences of my Bs and Cs are:
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Managing The Consequences Of My Weaknesses
The specific things I can deliver for a potential sponsor - an employer or a customer - are:
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My Strengths: The Specific Things That I Can Deliver
Positive Energy
Energy is life. This exercise invites you to list the things that give you positive energy personally and professionally.
These may include doing certain activities, being with certain people, following certain passions, doing certain professional projects or whatever.
The activities that give you positive energy – even when you simply think about them - can provide clues to your strengths. They can also help you to make decisions. When in doubt, you can ask yourself:
“Which option gives me the most positive energy?”
So try completing the following exercise.
Introduction
Positive Energy
Personally
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The things that give me positive energy - personally and professionally - are:
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My Element
When do you feel in your element? What are the specific situations in which you feel at ease and yet able to excel?
You may feel this when writing, gardening, teaching a class, leading a team, performing a play, cooking superb meals, solving a particular kind of problem or whatever. This exercise invites you to do the following things.
* Describe when you feel in your element.
* Describe the reasons why you feel in your element in these situations.
* Describe the specific things you can do to put yourself into more of these situations where you feel in your element.
Introduction
I feel in my element when:
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The reasons I feel in my element then are:
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The reasons I feel in my element then are:
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The specific things I can do to put myself into more situations where I feel in my element are:
Seeing The Destination Quickly
Clarifying where you go ‘A, B … and then leap to … Z’.
One clue to your talents is where you go into specific situations and see the destination quickly. You gather information, look for patterns and see what must be done to achieve success.
You go: ‘A, B … then leap to … Z’. You quickly see the end product or picture of success. Here are some examples.
A renovator goes into an old house and quickly see how it can be restored beautifully; a retailer goes into a shop and sees how it can boost profits; a trouble-shooter goes into a situation and sees what must be done to deliver success. Try tackling the exercise on this theme.
* Describe the situations in which you quickly see ‘Z’.
* Describe the specific things you do - or have done in the past - to deliver ‘Z’.
Introduction
The specific situations in which I go ‘A, B … and then leap to Z’ are:
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The specific things I then do - or have done - to deliver ‘Z’ successfully are:
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Seeing The Destination Quickly
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The specific things I then do - or have done - to deliver ‘Z’ successfully are:
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Seeing Patterns
Pattern recognition is one of the keys to peak performance. A person may have this ability when working with people, playing a sport, tackling a particular challenge or whatever.
Great workers go into a situation where they excel and quickly read what is happening. They are able:
To see patterns quickly.
To see both the successful and self-defeating patterns.
To see what must to be done to build on the successful patterns - whilst minimising the self-defeating patterns - to achieve the desired picture of success.
Introduction
This is sometimes called personal radar – the ability to see patterns quickly and predict what will happen before it happens.
Great performers sometimes go beyond having such radar. They also have the repertoire of skills necessary to deliver the picture of success. This exercise invites you to do two things.
* Describe where you have the ability to recognise patterns.
* Describe what you do with this information.
For example, you may use it to tackle the challenge, pass on the knowledge or do practical things to deliver success.
The specific situations in which I have the ability to recognise patterns are:
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The specific things I then dowith this information are:
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Seeing Patterns
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The specific things I then do with this information are:
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The specific field of activity that I am fascinated by, having a feeling for and in which I have a track record of finishing is:
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Focusing On A Specific Field
People who do superb work often build on their strengths and focus on a specific niche. How to choose the area you want to focus on?
It can be useful to focus on a field of activity that you find fascinating, have a strong feeling for and also have a track record of finishing. Let’s explore these themes.
Fascination
You are fascinated by the activity. You often find yourself thinking about it, exploring it and making models that help you to understand it. You want to discover more about the activity.
Feeling For It
You have a strong feeling for the activity. You feel at home when doing the activity and have the ability to make complicated things appear simple.
Introduction
Feeling For
Fascinating
Finishing
Focusing On A Specific Field Of Activity
You can focus on a specific activity that you find fascinating, have a feeling for and in which you have a track record of finishing.
Finishing
You have a track record of finishing things in the activity. Looking back, you can think of concrete examples of producing good work in this activity.
This exercise invites you to start by describing a specific activity that you find fascinating, have a feeling for and in which you have a track record of finishing. It then invites you to do the following things.
Describe the specific things about the activity that you find fascinating.
Describe the specific examples that demonstrate you have a feeling for the activity.
Describe the specific examples of you finishing things when doing this activity.
The specific things that I find fascinating about this activity are:
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Fascination
The specific examples that demonstrate I may have a feeling for this activity - that I may be good at it - are:
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Feeling For It
The specific examples of when I have finished things in this activity are:
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Finishing
My Positive History
Everybody has a positive history. “But I have not achieved anything,” somebody may say. Looking back on their life, however, they may have:
Overcome an illness as a childPerformed in playPlayed sport at a high levelWritten an articleBuilt a good relationshipDesigned a houseLearned a languageLed a team to successBuilt a successful prototypeOr whatever.
Try tackling the exercise on this theme.
Introduction
* Describe your positive history. List the things you have achieved in their life. Start from the age of 0 and go to your present age.
At first you may want to look for big achievements. But start populating the pages and you will find other achievements appear.
* Describe some of the principles you followed to achieve success.
Choose one achievement that you found particularly rewarding. What actually happened? What did you do right then? What were the principles you followed to overcome the challenge or reach the goal? Describe these in detail.
* Describe how you can follow these principles in the future.
Some of the things I have achieved in the past between the following ages (adjust according to age) have been:
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My Positive History
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Onwards
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The specific things I did right then – the principles I followed – to achieve this were:
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The specific things I can do to follow these principles again in the future are:
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Looking at these achievements, here is one that was particularly rewarding.
My Successful
Style
Everybody has a successful style of working. Clarifying this style is often the clue to finding their real strengths.
This is a long exercise, but it can be worthwhile. It highlights when you have translated your strengths into action. It also highlights how you work best. The exercise invites you do do the following things.
* Describe two or three satisfying projects that you have done in your life.
The word ‘project’ can be used in its widest sense. For example: writing an article, organising a fun run, launching a web site, solving a particular problem, leading a team or whatever.
Introduction
* Describe each of these projects in turn and the things that made them satisfying.
Try to be as specific as possible, especially about the things that made them satisfying. Looking at these projects, can you see any recurring patterns? These often provide clues to your preferred style.
* Describe your successful style of working - the principles you follow when doing satisfying work.
You may, for example, find it satisfying to do something you really care about, set a stimulating goal, work with motivated people, have a manager who gives you freedom within parameters, follow a certain rhythm in your daily work, build in quick successes, work to a deadline and present your work.
Alternatively, you may have a totally different successful style. You may also have two successful styles: one when you are working alone, one when working with other people. See what the exercise reveals.
* Describe how you can follow these principles in the future.
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The things that made it satisfying were:
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The second satisfying project was:
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Looking at the patterns that have emerged, I believe my successful style – my preferred way of working – is:
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My Successful Style
The things I can do to follow these principles in the future are:
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My Successful Style - Following It In The Future
Satisfying Work
Introduction
This exercise builds on some of those that you may have done earlier. It invites you to do the following things.
* Describe the specific kinds of work that you find satisfying.
You may enjoy encouraging people, writing articles, designing certain things, solving particular kinds of problems or whatever.
Try to be as specific as possible when describing this work. You may, for example, enjoy tackling certain kinds of projects, tasks or other activities.
* Describe the specific things you find satisfying about each of these kinds of work.
* Describe the specific things you can do to do more of these kinds of work in the future.
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The specific things I find satisfying about doing this kind of work are:
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The specific kinds of work that I find satisfying are:
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The specific things I find satisfying about doing this kind of work are:
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The specific things I find satisfying about doing this kind of work are:
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The specific things I can do to do more of these kinds of work in the future are:
Sponsors
So far you have clarified your strengths and successful style. These are ‘what’ you do best and ‘how’ you work best.
Combining these together can clarify your specific contribution to an employer or customer. Before doing this, however, it can be useful to do several things.
* To clarify your perfect customer. This is the kind of customer or employer with whom you work best.
* To clarify your perfect role.
* To clarify the possible routes you can travel in your future career.
* To clarify how you can get work by going out and helping people to succeed.
Introduction
My Perfect Customers
Who are the kinds of people with whom you work best? Who are the customers who give you positive energy? We often work best with people who share similar professional values.
You will, of course, continue to do a professional job with all clients. The key to building a long-term business, however, is to work with your perfect customers.
Sometimes these people work in a certain sector. They may also be leaders, managers, front line workers or whoever. More often they have certain personality characteristics which make it rewarding to work with them.
Certain kinds of people may, of course, be attracted to a particular sector. This means we may spend a lot of time working in that field. Bear in mind also that there will be people with whom you have certain kinds of clicks.
Introduction
There may be a personal and professional click. You share similar values and have a similar view of the world. Connection is easy, because you start from common assumptions.
There may be a professional click. You share similar professional values. Whilst having differing personalities, you both strongly believe in achieving a specific professional goal.
There may be no click. Sometimes you will be in work situations where there is no connection with the other person. You will then aim to be super professional and behave in a diligent way.
* Describe the specific kinds of customers with whom you work best and the characteristics of these people.
* Describe the specific challenges these types of customers face and their pictures of success.
* Describe the specific things you can do to use your strengths to help these people to achieve success.
The specific kinds of customers with whom I work best are:
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The specific characteristics of these people are:
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The specific characteristics of these people are:
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The specific challenges these potential customers face - and the specific goals they want achieve - are:
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The specific things I can do to use my strengths to help these people to achieve success are:
My Perfect Role
How can you do satisfying work that also pays a salary? This exercise invites you to translate your passion into your perfect role.
Start by describing the characteristics of the project, people and place that you find most stimulating. Let’s explore these factors.
* Project.
Describe the characteristics of the kind of project you find stimulating.
* People.
Describe the characteristics of the people - both customers and colleagues - you find stimulating. Pay attention to the characteristics of your ideal manager.
Introduction
People Place
You can focus on what for you would be the most stimulating kind of:
My Perfect Role
Project
* Place.
Describe the characteristics of the place - culture and environment - you find stimulating.
* My Perfect Role - Making It Happen.
Bearing your answers in mind, describe the specific things you can do to find or create such a project.
This is an exercise you can do at various stages of life to keep finding or creating your perfect role.
The specific kind of project that I find it stimulating to work on is:
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The specific kinds of people - customers, colleagues and managers - that I find it stimulating to work with are:
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The specific kind of place - culture and environment - that I find it stimulating to work in is:
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The specific things I can do to find or create such a project are:
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My Perfect Role - Making It Happen
My Ideal Manager
We each work best with a certain kind of manager. This exercise invites you to do the following things.
* Describe the good managers you have known and the specific qualities in each of these managers.
* Describe the specific qualities you would therefore like in your ideal manager.
* Describe the specific things you can do to find such a manager and then work well with them.
You may want to work with somebody with whom you have worked before. Alternatively, you may do lots of research and find such a manager. It will then be important to make clear working contracts with them regarding the results they want delivered.
The next step will be to do superb work, proactively keep them informed and deliver the desired results.
Introduction
The good managers I have known have been:
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The positive qualities they demonstrated were:
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The qualities I would therefore like in a manager is somebody who:
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The specific things I can do to find such a manager and then work well with them - such as by making clear contracts,
keeping them informed and delivering the desired results - are:
My Future Work
The Possible Roads I Can Travel
This exercise invites you to clarify the possible routes you can take in your future career. You can do this by filling in the illustration on the next page or by using the other pages that give you more room for adding details. The exercise invites you to take the following steps.
* Describe the possible routes you can travel.
You may be able, for example, to stay in your present role; to move to another role inside your organisation; to move to another organisation; to go freelance; to completely change your life-style or whatever.
* Describe the pluses and minuses of each route. Describe also the attractiveness of each option. Do this on a scale 0-10.
When people first do this exercise they list the obvious options. After a while, however, they start exploring other possibilities. For example, is it possible to combine the best parts of each road into a new option?
* Describe the route you want to follow.
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The attractiveness rating of each of these options is:
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Option C is:
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The Route I Want To Take Is:
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My Preferred Route
The potential minuses may be:
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The specific things I can do to build on the pluses and minimise the minuses are:
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Getting Work By
Going Out And
Helping People To Succeed
There are many ways to find work. One approach is to produce a CV, apply for jobs you see advertised and also to register with an agency that then aims to place you in a role.
Another approach is to get work by going out and helping people to succeed. Imagine that you know your strengths. You can pass on knowledge, tools and other things that will help people to achieve their goals.
Most of your work will come from your network. It will come from people who know you or from their recommendations. People buy people. Whilst CVs may look good, most buyers in the market want somebody who they can trust, somebody who they know can deliver.
“But I am no good at selling myself,” somebody may say. But they miss the point.
Introduction
Real networking is about giving to others and helping them to succeed. Different people do this in different ways. One person said: “Every job I have had over the past 20 years has come from my network. Twice during that time the company I was employed by got taken over and my job disappeared.
“So it was then time to reconnect with people who knew what I could deliver. The hard part was getting started. I spent masses of time visiting people.
“I learned that the conversation should be about them and their organisation, not about me. I keep sharing practical tools they could use to reach their goals.
“Every visit I followed up with an email framing possible ideas they could use to tackle specific challenges. Several times this led to contract work.
“This is how I have got my last two jobs. I started by doing pieces of project work, then moved into full-time employment.”
This exercise invites you to do the following things.
* Draw a map of your network. Write the names of potential sponsors, customers, colleagues, friends and other people. See illustration on the next page.
* Describe the specific challenges that each person faces.
* Describe the specific things you can do to give to these people and help them to succeed.
You can connect with people in a way that fits your values system. You might want to recommend books, offer to provide a pair of hands or offer to work on a project.
If possible, aim to meet them face to face. After a few minutes ask them about the challenges facing their organisation. You can then share ideas, tools and knowledge that they can use in their own ways.
This approach works, but it may take time. After a while, however, you will find that somebody says: “How can we take this further?”
The potential customers, employers, colleagues, friends and other people in my network
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The specific challenges they face are:
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Success
People buy success, rather than the theory of success. So it is vital to deliver the goods.
Imagine that you have managed to get a piece of work with a sponsor. It will then be important:
* To make clear contracts with the sponsor about the specific results to deliver - the agreed picture of success.
* To do superb work, deliver some quick successes and proactively keep the sponsor informed about your progress towards achieving the picture of such success.
* To encourage yourself on the journey, find solutions to challenges and do what is required to achieve the agreed picture of success.
Here are several exercises on these themes.
Introduction
Delivering Success
The specific things I can do to make clear contracts with the sponsor about the results to be delivered - the picture of success - are:
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The specific things I can do to perform superb work, get quick successes and proactively keep the sponsor informed about progress towards achieving the picture of success are:
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The specific things I can do to encourage myself on the journey, find solutions to challenges and do
what is required to achieve the picture of success are:
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Success Stories
Imagine that you have done work with a customer. Sometimes it can be useful to record what people did to deliver success. This also helps to establish credibility.
Different people use different frameworks for sharing success stories. This one invites people to start by choosing a title for the story. They can then bring it to life by writing a compelling story, using video or employing other media.
The format invites people to describe the specific situation, strategies and successes. It also asks them to summarise the learning.
You can, if you wish, adapt this approach in your own way to describe the specific results that you have helped to deliver.
Introduction
The title of the success story is:
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The Success Story
The specific situation we faced - including the specific challenges - was:
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The Situation
The Strategies
The strategies we followed to tackle the challenge and achieve the picture of success were:
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The Successes
The specific results that were delivered were:
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So here is a summary of the specific things we did and the things we learned:
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This to include: a) The strategies that worked and how these could be followed more in the future; b) The things we could do better next time and how; c) The other things of interest.
The Summary
My Best Contribution
To An Employer
Let’s conclude this pack by returning to a situation in which you may be looking for work. Imagine that you are applying for a role in an organisation. The following pages invite you to craft your script for focusing on certain themes during the interview for your desired role.
It can be good to clarify these headlines but then to be yourself in the interview. Here are some themes it can be useful to cover.
* Success.
Describe what you believe to be the goals – the picture of success – of the team or organisation you want to join.
This may be difficult, because you are not privy to lots of information. Bear in mind that most employers want to improve their profits, products - including customer satisfaction - and people. Clarify what you believe may be their goals.
Introduction
* Specific Contribution.
Bearing in mind the organisation’s goals and your strengths, describe the specific contribution you would like to make towards helping the them to achieve success. Again, try to give some specific examples.
* Specific Benefits.
Describe the benefits of making this contribution. These can be benefits for the organisation, customers and colleagues.
* Specific Early Successes.
Describe the specific early successes you would aim to deliver.
* Summary.
Summarise again what you would like to deliver to help the organisation to achieve success. Also describe any other themes you would like to explore with the potential employer.
* Summary.
Finally, there is a space to summarise the contribution you would like to make. Also add any other things that you would like to mention.
The exercise will be challenging. But it can help you to clarify your potential best contribution to an employer.
As far as I understand it, the goals of the organisation - together with some examples - are:
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Success
Bearing in mind the organisation’s goals and my strengths, the specific contribution I would like to make
towards achieving this picture of success would be:
1) To
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2) To
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3) To
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Specific Contribution
The specific benefits of making this contribution - for the team, customers, colleagues and other stakeholders - will be:
1) To
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2) To
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3) To
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Specific Benefits
The specific early successes I would aim to deliver would be:
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2) To
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3) To
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Specific Early Successes
So, in summary, this is what I would like to contribute towards achieving the picture of success.
Plus any other things I would like to mention.
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Summary
There are many ways to do satisfying work. This pack has explored how you can focus on your:
* Strengths.
* Sponsors.
* Success.
Please take the ideas you like and use them in your own way. If you want any more information, email me at:
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