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LinkedIn Learning

Planning Your Career and Your Life

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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This course provides a roadmap for anyone trying to solve the interrelated challenges of career and life planning.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • How you drift through life
1. What Kind of 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
2. Life Goals
  • 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
3. The Ideal Job
  • Is there an ideal job for everyone?
  • Risk of redundancy
  • Restless search
  • Is it okay to be content?
4. Self-Employment
  • Self-employment
  • Pros and cons of self-employment
  • How to get started
  • Top tips for self employment
5. Which Job Would Be Best for Me?
  • 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
6. If You're Unhappy Where You Are
  • 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
7. Ways to Move
  • Ways to move
  • Maximize your contacts
  • How valuable are qualifications?
  • Mastermind groups
  • Opportunities within your current organization
8. Success Factors
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Summing up

Taught by

Chris Croft

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