Career Decisions

• The Right Career
• Job Search
• Navigating the World of Work

If you have any buttons to push – in other words, if you are human – making Career Decisions will push those buttons.

How can you know what's out there and whether you are making the best choice? What is Your Right Livelihood?
How can you survive the indignities of Job Search with confidence and success? What do you need to do in the World of Work to be secure and fulfilled?
Can you actually have a Successful Career aligned with your Values?

These important questions are about more than your career, they are about you as a whole person. The decisions you make affect other areas of your life: leisure time, relationships with family and friends, health, and spiritual life. Here are some ways to include all of who you are in your Career Decisions:

Understand the World of Work
Make effective job and career choices.
Avoid mistaken advice and limiting beliefs.
What's predictable – and what is not – in a changing world.
Recognize the signs that a job or company is a good fit.
How the hidden job market can work for you, whether you are an introvert or extrovert.
Be ready when it's time to move on to the next step.

Sustainable Design Principles
Whole-system design - Start with the end in mind, design to create your desired outcome.
Separate outcomes from methods of getting there.
Seek solutions that work for the whole system – your whole life.
Acknowledge doubt and dissatisfaction.
Reuse and recycle your energy and experience.

Work from Your Strengths
Who you really are is the key to your success.
Distinguish your best work from other valuable work.
Identify what you are already good at and enjoy, the strengths and skills you didn't know you had.
Know your personal success factors and what you must have in a job, manager, or company in order to succeed.
Choose work you are confident you can do and enjoy.

Address the Larger Issues
Include Spirit, God, Calling, or Purpose in your choices.
Be clear about what matters most to you – on the job and in your whole life.
Accept ambiguity in order to experience deep integrity.

Call Deborah to learn how I can help you choose your next good job or business faster – and have fun getting there.