Reimagine Your Career: A
Playbook for Designing Your
Next Act
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Welcome
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Let’s envision what’s possible
Cultivate community and connection to co-create the next chapters o…
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Check-ins
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Check-ins
Where do you live? Where are you connecting from today?
What routines energize or resto…
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Cohort principles
Focus
Commitment
Candor
Feedback
Confidentiality
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The Process: Reimagine Your
Career
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Acquia,2013
Howdobring
dozensofpeople
togetherto
establishalongterm vision?
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Company Name
Tested, measured, and
refined the visioning
method over a decade
of real-world pra…
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Acquia, 2013
How do we apply the
visioning methods to
individuals designing
their own lives?
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Where are
the lowest
levels of
risk?
5-Step Ordering Process
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CONNEC…
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Death &
Rebirth
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Stage 1: Catalyst event - A significant event or shift; your career cannot …
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Discover You
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Exercise: Career and Life Assessment
Career and Life Assessment
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Looking Back: Conducting Your
Career Inventory
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My career story
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A catalyst event
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The Career Journey Map
What went well? What energized you?
What went poorly? What depleted you?
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Instructions: Mapping Your Career
Look back on the story of your career
For each job role, wri…
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Example: User Interface Engineering
Teaching courses
Students feverishly writing in the notebo…
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Experience Sampling:
The Daily Journal
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Homework Exercise: Experience Sampling
“Keep a carefulrecord of what you did each day and how you …
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Homework Exercise: Journal
At the end of each night, write down:
List of major activities you …
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Reimagine Your Career: A
Playbook for Designing Your
Next Act
Week Two
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Check-ins
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Check-ins
On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now?
What is one highlight from t…
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Acquia, 2013
Where are
the lowest
levels of
risk?
The Process: Weeks 2 and 3
5-Step Ordering …
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Acquia, 2013
Where are
the lowest
levels of
risk?
The Process: Weeks 4 and 5
5-Step Ordering …
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Acquia, 2013
Where are
the lowest
levels of
risk?
The Process: Weeks 5 and 6
5-Step Ordering …
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Updates and Takeaways
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The Benefits: Presenting
insights to your council
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Exercise: Career and Life Assessment
Career and Life Assessment
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Mapping Your Career
Skills
What went well? What energized you?
What went poorly? What deplete…
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Reflections: Mapping Your Career
Are there patterns in the roles, responsibilities, activities,…
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The Gratitude List Exercise
(10 minutes)
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The Gratitude List
Who has helped you along the way in your career?
What did they do for you?
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Discovery Interviews:
Uncovering Your Full Story
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The listening tour
Schedule 2 - 3 conversations with people on your gratitude list to understan…
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Mission and Values: Workview
and Lifeview
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Workview: What does work mean to you?
Why work?
What’s work for?
What does work mean to you?
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Where do your views on work and life complement each other?
Where do your views conflict?
Does…
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Evening Journal, Week 2
Listening Tour
Workview and Lifeview Exercise
Homework
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Reimagine Your Career: A
Playbook for Designing Your
Next Act
Week Three
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Check-ins
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Check-ins
On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now?
What is one highlight from t…
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Updates and Takeaways
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Listening tour takeaways
What surprised or encouraged you from the interview?
What skills and …
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Your Compass
Workview: What does work mean to you?
Why work?
What’s work for?
What does work…
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Compass Reflections
Where do your views on work and life complement each other?
Where do your …
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Career and Life Visioning
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Visioning: Two futures
Career and Life Vision #1: The Great Life You Have Already Have Got Plan…
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Visioning: Quantity over quality to start
Start with first vision for your future
Brainstorm: …
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The Exercise: Visioning Board
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Next Week: Presentations and Feedback
30 minutes for each of you to present and collect feedbac…
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Reimagine Your Career: A
Playbook for Designing Your
Next Act
Week Five
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Check-ins
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Check-ins
On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now?
What is one highlight from t…
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Visioning Takeaways
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Vision Reflections
What beliefs and feelings came up as you reflected on the visioning exercise…
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What holds us back from achieving our vision?
Past (and false) narratives
What was valued by o…
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Exercise: Naming and Reframing the Labels
Articulate the past (and
false narratives) and they
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Ideating on Opportunities
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Acquia, 2013
Where are
the lowest
levels of
risk?
The Process: Weeks 5 and 6
5-Step Ordering …
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Build and take action
Outline the opportunities and solutions
Launch small, lean pilots to mea…
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Visioning Board: Breaking down the accomplishments
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Exercise: Ideate on opportunities and solutions
10 minute exercise! Quantity of ideas
over qua…
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Opportunities and Insights
3 minutes: Present opportunities
3 minutes: Council add additional …
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The KJ Exercise: A Method for
Prioritizing Opportunities
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3. The KJ: Prioritize the Opportunities
Goal: Based on your visioning board, create a prioritized …
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Step 1: List Opportunities
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Step 2: Group the Sticky Notes
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Step 3: Name the Groups
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Step 4: Rank the Groups in Order of Priority
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Step 5: Vote/Rank
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Step 6: Order and Review Priorities
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Homework Exercise 1
Group, name, and rank the groupings
Ranking exercises
Which grouping ligh…
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Plan Pilot Experiments
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“True happiness comes from living a
life that is authentic for you.”
-Martha Beck
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Create pilots
Choose 1-2 groupings from the KJ exercise to design pilot experiments
Build a sm…
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Next week: Present your pilots for input
Choose 1 - 2 groupings from the KJ exercise
Ask: What…
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Take action for 60 minutes!
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Reimagine Your Career: A
Playbook for Designing Your
Next Act
Week Five
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Vision Presentations and
Feedback
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Reimagine Your Career: A
Playbook for Designing Your
Next Act
Week Six
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Check-ins
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Check-ins
On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now?
What is one highlight from t…
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Takeaways: Ranking of
Opportunities and Pilots
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The KJ Ranking Exercise: Where
Will You Begin?
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Name the Groups
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Rank the Groups in Order of Priority
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Homework Takeaways
Group, name, and rank the groupings
Ranking exercises
Which grouping light…
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Pilot Experiments
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Present your pilots
Choose 1 - 2 groupings from the KJ exercise
Ask: What 1-2 small pilots wil…
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The Immunity to Change
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What holds us back from achieving our vision?
Past (and false) narratives
What was valued by o…
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Exercise: The Immunity to Change X-Ray
Activity for getting unstuck
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Questions?
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