This course provides a roadmap for anyone trying to solve the interrelated challenges of career and life planning.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- How you drift through life
- The six career options
- Which option is best for you?
- The meaning of life
- Stress spiral: Don't overdo, either achieve or enjoy
- Wrap up
- The importance of goals
- Enjoy and achieve, at home and at work
- My story: When I discovered goals
- How goals work
- My story: Types of careers
- Non-attachment to goals
- Money last
- Wrap up
- Is there an ideal job for everyone?
- Risk of redundancy
- Restless search
- Is it okay to be content?
- Self-employment
- Pros and cons of self-employment
- How to get started
- Top tips for self employment
- Which job would be best?
- The three circles
- What is a life purpose?
- How to find your life purpose
- Why computers can't help
- Which subject area: Analysis
- Which subject area: People
- If you can't get the job you want
- Wrap up
- If you're unhappy where you are
- It's okay to want to move
- Should you settle for a job that's safe and easy?
- Should you take that risky option?
- The signs of being in the wrong place
- Self development is always important
- My story: The effect of bad bosses
- Wrap up
- Ways to move
- Maximize your contacts
- How valuable are qualifications?
- Mastermind groups
- Opportunities within your current organization
- What makes a person successful in their job?
- Six success factors for your career
- The inputs and outputs of success
- The efficient greyhound
- The ambitious mountain goat
- The plodding tortoise
- The dreaming koala
- The fun-loving kangaroo
- The achieving eagle
- Why there are only six possibilities
- Development plans for each animal
- Summing up
Taught by
Chris Croft