Reimagine Your Career course - slide presentation

Reimagine Your Career course - slide presentation

• 1. Reimagine Your Career: A Playbook for Designing Your Next Act

• 2. Welcome

• 3. Let’s envision what’s possible Cultivate community and connection to co-create the next chapters of your careers Leverage principles of social psychology, user research, design thinking, visioning, and lean experimentation to find your way and move forward The foundation of the method: Connection Councils, small group cohorts to navigate the journey, support each other, and participate and contribute to the exercises together Slack channel for cohort (#121) Tuesday sessions for six weeks

• 4. Check-ins

• 5. Check-ins Where do you live? Where are you connecting from today? What routines energize or restore you? On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now?

• 6. Cohort principles Focus Commitment Candor Feedback Confidentiality

• 7. The Process: Reimagine Your Career

• 8. P erfetti Media Acquia,2013 Howdobring dozensofpeople togetherto establishalongterm vision?

• 9. Company Name Tested, measured, and refined the visioning method over a decade of real-world practice

• 10. Acquia, 2013 How do we apply the visioning methods to individuals designing their own lives?

• 11. ATcqhuiea,p20r1o3 cess Where are the lowest levels of risk? 5-Step Ordering Process 1 CONNECT 2 DISCOVER 3 CO-CREATE 4 BUILD 5 TEST Designing your next career and life chapter

• 12. 1 Death & Rebirth 1 Stage 1: Catalyst event - A significant event or shift; your career cannot stay the same anymore Loss of job, new career opportunity, life transition Stage 2: Dreaming and scheming Begin to consider what’s next Discover, visioning, trying things out Stage 3: The hero’s saga Taking specific and bold action Expect things to “go wrong” when testing and experimenting Stage 4: The promised land You form your new identity Actions start to pay off Navigating an inflection point is not easy Martha Beck’s “Change Cycle”

• 13. Discover You

• 14. 1 Exercise: Career and Life Assessment Career and Life Assessment

• 15. Looking Back: Conducting Your Career Inventory

• 16. My career story

• 17. A catalyst event

• 18. 1 The Career Journey Map What went well? What energized you? What went poorly? What depleted you?

• 19. 1 Instructions: Mapping Your Career Look back on the story of your career For each job role, write down: Two things that went well Two things that could have been better or improved Skills you learned, grew, or refined during that stage Things to reflect on: Are there patterns in the roles, responsibilities, activities, that you enjoyed the most? What skills and talents were you best at? What lit you up? What lit your colleagues up?

• 20. 1 Example: User Interface Engineering Teaching courses Students feverishly writing in the notebooks Manage conferences Conference speaking Lack of clear business priorities Managing people Skills: Public speaking,facilitation, course development, content creation, product development,running events Launching online event series

• 21. Experience Sampling: The Daily Journal

• 22. Homework Exercise: Experience Sampling “Keep a carefulrecord of what you did each day and how you felt aboutit. This is whatthe Experience Sampling Method accomplishes. Itis possible, after a week,to have a good idea of how you spend yourtime and how you feel about various activities.” Mihaly Czikszentmihali,“Creativity”

• 23. 1 Homework Exercise: Journal At the end of each night, write down: List of major activities you completed and things you experienced that day What energized you? What engaged you? What filled your cup? When was time flying by? What depleted you and sucked energy? What brought you down? Complete this exercise for the next 14 days In week 3, we will discuss what we learned

• 24. Reimagine Your Career: A Playbook for Designing Your Next Act Week Two

• 25. Check-ins

• 26. Check-ins On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now? What is one highlight from the past week? Are there requests for help this week?

• 27. Acquia, 2013 Where are the lowest levels of risk? The Process: Weeks 2 and 3 5-Step Ordering Process 1 CONNECT 2 DISCOVER 3 CO-CREATE 4 BUILD 5 TEST

• 28. Acquia, 2013 Where are the lowest levels of risk? The Process: Weeks 4 and 5 5-Step Ordering Process 1 CONNECT 2 DISCOVER 3 CO-CREATE 4 BUILD 5 TEST

• 29. Acquia, 2013 Where are the lowest levels of risk? The Process: Weeks 5 and 6 5-Step Ordering Process 1 CONNECT 2 DISCOVER 3 CO-CREATE 4 BUILD 5 TEST

• 30. Updates and Takeaways

• 31. The Benefits: Presenting insights to your council

• 32. 1 Exercise: Career and Life Assessment Career and Life Assessment

• 33. 1 Mapping Your Career Skills What went well? What energized you? What went poorly? What depleted you?

• 34. 1 Reflections: Mapping Your Career Are there patterns in the roles, responsibilities, activities, that you enjoyed the most? What skills and talents were you best at? What lit you up? What lit your colleagues up? What did you achieve? What kind of impact did you have?

• 35. The Gratitude List Exercise (10 minutes)

• 36. 1 The Gratitude List Who has helped you along the way in your career? What did they do for you? Who could best provide you with feedback on your strengths, talents and skills?

• 37. Discovery Interviews: Uncovering Your Full Story

• 38. 1 The listening tour Schedule 2 - 3 conversations with people on your gratitude list to understand how they see you and to fill in the gaps from the Career Map Ask: What did you perceive as my biggest strengths? Where was I most effective? In what areas did I have the greatest impact? What could I have done better? Been more effective? Share your assessment from the Career Mapping exercise Are there any of the skills and peak experiences that resonated based on your experience working with me? What skills did I miss? If you were in my shoes, how would you approach this next stage in my career?

• 39. Mission and Values: Workview and Lifeview

• 40. 1 Workview: What does work mean to you? Why work? What’s work for? What does work mean to you? What defines good or worthwhile work? What is the role of money? What is the role of growth and fulfillment? Lifeview: What gives your life the most meaning? What are we here? What is the meaning of life for you? What is the relationship between the individual and others? Where do family, country, and the rest of the world fit in? What is good and what is evil? Is there a higher power, God, or something transcendent, and what impact does it have on your life? What is the role of joy, sorrow, justice, injustice, love, peace in life? Who you are Exercise: Reflect on your compass What you believe What you are doing “Designing Your Life”, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

• 41. 1 Where do your views on work and life complement each other? Where do your views conflict? Does one drive the other? In what ways? Intergrating Workview and Lifeview

• 42. 1 Evening Journal, Week 2 Listening Tour Workview and Lifeview Exercise Homework

• 43. Reimagine Your Career: A Playbook for Designing Your Next Act Week Three

• 44. Check-ins

• 45. Check-ins On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now? What is one highlight from the past week? Are there requests for help this week?

• 46. Updates and Takeaways

• 47. 1 Listening tour takeaways What surprised or encouraged you from the interview? What skills and talents did your connections perceive as your biggest strengths? In what areas did you have the greatest impact? What recommendations did the people on your gratitude list have for you?

• 48. 1 Your Compass Workview: What does work mean to you? Why work? What’s work for? What does work mean to you? What defines good or worthwhile work? What is the role of money? What is the role of growth and fulfillment? Lifeview: What gives your life the most meaning? What are we here? What is the meaning of life for you? What is the relationship between the individual and others? Where do family, country, and the rest of the world fit in? What is good and what is evil? Is there a higher power, God, or something transcendent, and what impact does it have on your life? What is the role of joy, sorrow, justice, injustice, love, peace in life?

• 49. 1 Compass Reflections Where do your views on work and life complement each other? Where do your views conflict? Does one drive the other? In what ways?

• 50. Career and Life Visioning

• 51. 1 Visioning: Two futures Career and Life Vision #1: The Great Life You Have Already Have Got Planned - Sort Of :) Career Life Vision #2: The Wildly Audacious Career and Life What if I didn't care what people thought? What if I was sure I would succeed? What if I was absolutely sure I was making the right choice? What if money was no object?

• 52. 1 Visioning: Quantity over quality to start Start with first vision for your future Brainstorm: Quantity over quality at first What are all the things you will have achieved? Spend no more than 15 minutes! Vision Collage: What images and photos best represent your vision of this future Canva, Google Images, Pinterest, or Magazines The Narrative: Write the story of your life and career in 5 years Reflections: Unanswered questions, positives, negatives, potential next steps?

• 53. The Exercise: Visioning Board

• 54. 1 Next Week: Presentations and Feedback 30 minutes for each of you to present and collect feedback You will have 10 minutes to present each vision, 5 minutes for feedback from your council Technique: Design Studio Method

• 55. Reimagine Your Career: A Playbook for Designing Your Next Act Week Five

• 56. Check-ins

• 57. Check-ins On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now? What is one highlight from the past week? Are there requests for help this week?

• 58. Visioning Takeaways

• 59. 1 Vision Reflections What beliefs and feelings came up as you reflected on the visioning exercise? What vision lights you up? What vision aligns most with your values, workview, and lifeview?

• 60. 1 What holds us back from achieving our vision? Past (and false) narratives What was valued by others around you? What did people expect from you? The “Big Leap” barriers to consider Barrier 1: Feeling fundamentally flawed Barrier 2: Disloyalty when abandoning old narratives Barrier 3: Believing most success brings a bigger burden Barrier 4: The crime of outshining Choice overload and paralysis: Too many opportunities, not knowing where to start or what to prioritize Taking too much action and not seeing pilots through to completion Stopping too soon when encountering “failures”

• 61. 1 Exercise: Naming and Reframing the Labels Articulate the past (and false narratives) and they lose their power

• 62. Ideating on Opportunities

• 63. Acquia, 2013 Where are the lowest levels of risk? The Process: Weeks 5 and 6 5-Step Ordering Process 1 CONNECT 2 DISCOVER 3 CO-CREATE 4 BUILD 5 TEST

• 64. 1 Build and take action Outline the opportunities and solutions Launch small, lean pilots to measure and learn Do the research Do something but don’t overcommit

• 65. Visioning Board: Breaking down the accomplishments

• 66. 1 Exercise: Ideate on opportunities and solutions 10 minute exercise! Quantity of ideas over quality Choose one of your vision boards Ask: If I am going to achieve this vision in 3 years, what are all of the actions and steps I would need to take? What are all of the different avenues I can take to get there?

• 67. 1 Opportunities and Insights 3 minutes: Present opportunities 3 minutes: Council add additional oportunities and solutions to consider 3 minutes: Takeaways

• 68. The KJ Exercise: A Method for Prioritizing Opportunities

• 69. 3. The KJ: Prioritize the Opportunities Goal: Based on your visioning board, create a prioritized list of the best opportunities The Focus Question: What are the biggest opportunities to achieve your vision? What are all of the different approaches I can take?

• 70. Step 1: List Opportunities

• 71. Step 2: Group the Sticky Notes

• 72. Step 3: Name the Groups

• 73. Step 4: Rank the Groups in Order of Priority

• 74. Step 5: Vote/Rank

• 75. Step 6: Order and Review Priorities

• 76. 1 Homework Exercise 1 Group, name, and rank the groupings Ranking exercises Which grouping lights me up the most? Which grouping aligns most with my values? Which grouping has the most low hanging fruit? Which grouping brings up the most worry?

• 77. Plan Pilot Experiments

• 78. 1 “True happiness comes from living a life that is authentic for you.” -Martha Beck

• 79. 1 Create pilots Choose 1-2 groupings from the KJ exercise to design pilot experiments Build a small “prototype” to test Outline your learning objectives Prioritize action over reflecting and thinking Take action, learn, and fail quickly Prototype: Run a qualitative research study with mothers Prototype: LinkedIn: Write a weekly post about coming out of survival mode Prototype: Free webinar on empty nesting Prototype: Free webinar on role models and mentors Prototype: Launch a Maven cohort Learning objectives: Sign ups? LinkedIn followers? Organic conversations? Connections?

• 80. 1 Next week: Present your pilots for input Choose 1 - 2 groupings from the KJ exercise Ask: What 1-2 small pilots will I run to move in the direction of my vision? Outline your learning objectives from the pilot

• 81. Take action for 60 minutes!

• 82. Reimagine Your Career: A Playbook for Designing Your Next Act Week Five

• 83. Vision Presentations and Feedback

• 84. Reimagine Your Career: A Playbook for Designing Your Next Act Week Six

• 85. Check-ins

• 86. Check-ins On a scale of 1-10, what’s your level of energy right now? What is one highlight from the past week? Are there requests for help this week?

• 87. Takeaways: Ranking of Opportunities and Pilots

• 88. The KJ Ranking Exercise: Where Will You Begin?

• 89. Name the Groups

• 90. Rank the Groups in Order of Priority

• 91. 1 Homework Takeaways Group, name, and rank the groupings Ranking exercises Which grouping lights me up the most? Which grouping aligns most with my values? Which grouping has the most low hanging fruit? Which grouping brings up the most worry?

• 92. Pilot Experiments

• 93. 1 Present your pilots Choose 1 - 2 groupings from the KJ exercise Ask: What 1-2 small pilots will I run to move in the direction of my vision? Outline your learning objectives from the pilot

• 94. The Immunity to Change

• 95. 1 What holds us back from achieving our vision? Past (and false) narratives What was valued by others around you? What did people expect from you? The “Big Leap” barriers to consider Barrier 1: Feeling fundamentally flawed Barrier 2: Disloyalty when abandoning old narratives Barrier 3: Believing most success brings a bigger burden Barrier 4: The crime of outshining Choice overload and paralysis: Too many opportunities, not knowing where to start or what to prioritize Taking too much action and not seeing pilots through to completion Stopping too soon when encountering “failures”

• 96. 1 Exercise: The Immunity to Change X-Ray Activity for getting unstuck

• 97. Questions?