create the job of your dreams - george brown oct 2012
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Don’t Settle:Create the Job of your Dreams
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What is a Dream Job?
You pinch yourself
I can’t believe I’m getting paid to do this
“Fits”: WHYHOWWHAT
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Will you get it?
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>80% OF PEOPLE DON’T
LOVE THEIR WORK.
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The Typical Job Strategy
That job looks soooo
good
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WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
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Quarter-life Crisis
Mid-life Crisis
What’s a definition of a Mid-life crisis?
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WHY
WHATHOW
Pitch & Propose
Pick Yourself
Find your Forte
The Dream Job Strategy
Mind
the
Dip
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TWO STORIES(THAT PROVE THIS WORKS)
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Theo
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I took to heart what you said about doing something that is fulfilling…
I actually wrote my own job description for a new position and submitted it to my managers. They are taking my suggestions and creating that job for me!
Sarah P.
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Mind
the
Dip
WHY
WHATHOW
Pitch & Propose
Pick Yourself
Find your Forte
The Dream Job Strategy
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Three Reasons to Pick Yourself
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“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. Guess what they planned for you? Not much.”-Jim Rohn
#1: Nobody cares about you like you.
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#2: You’ll be more successful.
“The dirty little secret is that people who are intrinsically motivated almost always outperform their extrinsically motivated peers.”-Dan Pink
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#3: You won’t regret it.
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I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true
to myself (not the life others expected of me)
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1. Write down a list of work-related things you want to accomplish before you die.
2. Write down a list of work-related things OTHER people in your life want you to accomplish.
3. Is there a Difference? Should it matter?
Exercise
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WHY
WHATHOW
Pitch & Propose
Pick Yourself
Find your Forte
The Dream Job Strategy
Mind
the
Dip
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Purpose (WHY)
Autonomy (HOW)
Mastery (WHAT)
Start with the Intrinsic
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Alignment of Intrinsic Drivers = your FORTE
FORTE
WHY The difference I want to make
PURPOSE
HOW Personal values & traits
AUTONOMY
WHAT Aptitude, skills, & exp.MASTERY
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WHY The difference I want to
make
WHAT My aptitude, skills
& experience
HOW My personal values
& traits
Dedicated
Quality
Creative
Using your FORTE Makes you the Best
FORTE
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WHY The difference I want to
make
WHAT I’m good at doing
HOW My personal values
& traits
Happiness FAIL
Meaning FAIL
Ability FAIL
Not using your FORTE is a FAIL
EPIC FAIL
EPIC FAILEPIC FAIL
FORTE
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WHY
WHATHOW
Edwin’s FORTE
My purpose is to challenge the unfulfilled to do meaningful work, so that the institution of business lives up to it’s potential, and more people find happiness, success & fulfillment.
Make a Difference (impact, altruism)Find the Insight (wisdom, truth)Get it Started (initiate, empowered)Challenge & Change (innovate)Coach the Team (collaborate, mentor)
AREAMarketingCommunicationsCareer CoachingTrainingOrganizational DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipBusiness Dev.Service Mgmt.
SKILLSPeople Dev.LeadershipInfluencingPresentingTeam BuildingBrainstormingStrategyWritingSocial Media
FORTE
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FIND YOUR FORTEThe practical guide for doing meaningful work.
Copyright 2012 Edwin Jansen
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BELIEFS
VISION CAUSES
TRAITS
SERVICE
TALENTS
ENVIRONMENT
SKILLS
FORTE
What is most important to
me?
What are life’s truths?
What bigger difference do I want to be a part of?
What needs of others do I love to serve?
What are my tendencies?
In what type of setting am I at my best?
What am I great at?
What do I know and how is it useful?
WHY?My purpose in life is to [actions I do, for who or what] so that [the value or difference created] .
VALUES
KNOWLEDGE
What can I do?
What ideal future do I want to contribute to?
HOW WHAT
WHY
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Exercise: Service (WHY)Service: the personal needs of others that you are drawn to serve.
• What are 3 ways your friends would say that you help them? What do you give or add to their lives?
• Think about the 3 people you admire most in the world. What is the main way that each of them helps others?
• What are 3 things that you are always recommending or advising to people? How does this help them?
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Service: Maslow Service: What stage of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs do you gravitate towards helping others with? Think about how you are “pulled” to help:• Friends• Family• Colleagues• Strangers
Exercise: Service (WHY)
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Myers Briggs
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Values Assessments
Values: the things that you place the most emphasis and importance on in the choices you make.
Body Image Happiness
New Experiences
Health Flavour
Discipline
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Find your Forte: My Offer for You
If you fill out our market research survey…
• Get advance access to my Find your Forte Guide
• Get free personality tests • Apply your Forte for your
co-op search & interviews
Get the link: [email protected]
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Mind
the
Dip
WHY
WHATHOW
Pitch & Propose
Pick Yourself
Find your Forte
The Dream Job Strategy
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“You can have everything you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want”
– Zig Ziglar
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“Charlie Hoehn first reached out to me in 2008. Almost three years later, he is still working with me.”
-Tim Ferris
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“After visiting your site countless times since May ’07, I’ve come up with a few suggestions that could improve your readers’ experience. Here are the two things I think you need…” What it would take:
How I could help:
“In exchange for these things, I hope that you’d consider taking me on as an intern.”
What the benefits are to you:
1
2What it would take:
How I could help:
What the benefits are to you:
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Why does this work?
Credibility
Reciprocity
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Make Proposals
NGO’s & Non-profits
Companies
New Venture
Brainstorm multiple ways you can ACTUALLY help themUse your Forte
Propose VALUE
State your INTENTIONS
Make it easy to say YES
Research, Research, Research
Pick Three
1
2
3
4
Find organizations that align with your WHY
New Role
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Most Resumes Suck
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WHY?
HOW?
WHAT?
WHAT?
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an eBook from Simon Sinek
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Mind
the
Dip
WHY
WHATHOW
Pitch & Propose
Pick Yourself
Find your Forte
The Dream Job Strategy
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"Quitters never win and winners never quit." -Vince Lombardi
Winners n’ Quitters
"Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time."
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Mind ‘The Dip’
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Make Your Dips Count
Best of the Best
Found my Forte!
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Exercise: Mind The Dip
How big is the Dip? What’s going to suck?Do I CARE enough to power through it?
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Mind
the
Dip
WHY
WHATHOW
Pitch & Propose
Pick Yourself
Find your Forte
Review: The Dream Job Strategy
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My Offers
Email me for the survey & Find your Forte GuideI will actively assist people who PROPOSE it
Anyone who tries without success – I’ll HELP