
How to build a happy, successful career - one simple model that could change your life
A Quick Boost course from award-winning entrepreneur & educator, Si Beales
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How will you be different?
Know yourself better
Understand the opportunities
Define your strengths and options
Commit to working happily
Build habits
Today
Think about your career differently
Happiness
Habits, models and tools
Purpose diagram
Design thinking
Inspiration
Use your creativity to design a happy career
60% of people would change their jobs
Only 45% report consistent job satisfaction
Only 25% of designers end up in ‘highly skilled ‘ roles
The average job now lasts 4 years
89% graduate with a First or 2:1
41% of employers unhappy with graduate skills
65-85% of jobs have not been invented yet
80,000 hours in work. One third of our lives
"In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products – you will above all need to reinvent yourself again and again". Yuval Harari
Money
Status
Aspiration
Opportunity
Stability
Relationships
Skills
Progress
Expectation
Problem solving
Ambition
Motivation
What does work mean to us?
Identity
Expression
Connection
Passion
Talent
Flow
Freedom
Destiny
Fulfilment
Meaning
Our attitude to work
Money vs Meaning
Having vs Being
Doing vs Experiencing
Consuming vs Nourishing
Self vs Others
Think about a time when you were really happy in your work?
What really mattered to you?
What do you want to take forward?
•Enjoyment
•Satisfaction
•Experience
•Connection
•Affirmation
•Meaning
•Purpose
See downloadable content: Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Start as you mean to go on
Commit to being happy at work
Education
Industry experience
First job
A creative project
Approach and attitude
Habits
Process
Know yourself
Explore the possibilities
Visualise your potential
Refine your options
Prototype and experiment
Commit
Tell your story
Find your purpose
Keep it simple, purpose diagram
Know yourself
Explore the possibilities
Imagine your potential
One simple model could change your life
The purpose diagram
Start with this - What I love
Personal audit – write it down
Colleagues, professionals, friends, peers, loved ones
Creative process
Swipe file
Personal audit – write it down
Passion
Flow
Energy
Journey
Personality
Approach
Values
Joy
Look for themes
What my strengths are
Connects to what you love
True vs perceived
Get granular
Deconstruct, analyse, evaluate, define
Recent projects
What do others think
T shaped
Hidden strengths – organization, sales, resilience
Add strengths – what is needed?
Write a sentence or two
Innovation
Technology
Opportunities, insights, trends, movements
Issues
People and places
Future proof
Write a sentence or two
What do you have that is valued?
Hard and Soft Skills
Experience
Creativity
Different
Attitude
How do you add value?
What do others do?
What can you develop?
What is scarce?
How can you be agile?
Go T shaped, see our external resource link to T shaped explainer
Define and refine
Revise and reinvent
Write a sentence or two
One hour
Passion
Mission
Profession
Vocation
Take your sentences
Create a personal statement
1-2 paragraphs
Then, walk away
Trust your subconscious
Look for opportunities
Growth mindset
Commit to working happily
Books
Designing your life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis
How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric
Pivot by Jenny Blake
Design Thinking Methodology, see downloadable PDF.
It’s all going to be alright
You’re on a journey
Keep on working out who you are and what matters to you
Focus on what nourishes you
Connect with people who inform and affirm you
Be alive and awake to the world
Tell your story
Do it your way
Work Happy
"In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products – you will above all need to reinvent yourself again and again." - Yuval Harari, author of Sapiens
In this Quick Boost course from award-winning entrepreneur & educator, Si Beales, you will get to know yourself better and identify strengths, opportunities and pathways to help you build a happy, successful, fulfilling career; empower your mental health and make the world a better place.
You'll discover and utilise a simple model to help you identify your strengths, skills, abilities and aptitudes and develop personal transformation habits that will last a lifetime.
Finally, we give you inspirational references in books and methodologies.
Whats going to change after this course?
Know yourself better and create a model for personal and career development
Understand the landscape, challenges and opportunities out there
Define your strengths, attributes and and options
Commit to working happily and building lifelong career habits
Enjoy learning from an expert, experienced and supportive tutor
Course structure
Know yourself better
Think about your career differently
What is Happiness
Thinking about work, careers, purpose and fulfilment
Habits, models and tools
Purpose diagram (Ikigai)
Design thinking
Inspiration
Create and action plan to use your creativity to design a happy, successful career
Course is intended for purchase by adults, age 18 and over.