Capitalizing on Career Chaos: Bringing Creativity and Purpose to Your Work and Life

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Davies-Black Publishing, 2005 - 162 pages
Capitalizing on Career Chaos delivers the tools and strategies to become an authentic, trailblazing pioneer who can thrive in this age of unprecedented change. Helen Harkness draws on her work with more than 6,000 individuals and her nearly 30 years as a career management expert to present a timely process for regenerating, redirecting or crafting a new career-- from the inside out. With expert advice, real-life success stories and more than a dozen interactive tools, Capitalizing on Career Chaos begins at the beginning: looking inward to develop a clear sense of the values and traditions that define our authentic selves, and the important Meaning Magnets that serve as our focal points for change. Harkness's easy-to-implement, four-step process shows how to look outward to match core instincts and talents with external realities; look forward to create a vision of the future; and look beyond to a specific course of action that will move us from visualization to the realization of our goals.
 

Contents

Understanding Chaos for Career Planning
1
ACTIVITIES
13
2
19
Searching for the Authentic Self
25
Experiencing the Dark Night of Change
43
Redesigning Our Careers
59
Finding Clues to Your Meaning Magnets
64
Positive Accomplishments of Your Life
66
Envisioning the Future
97
Creative Attributes
104
Creativity and Innovation Checklist
108
Taking Action
111
Summarizing Your Career Design Plan So Far
112
SelfDefeating SelfTalk
118
Identifying Your SelfDefeating Behaviors
119
Resisting Change Questionnaire
121

Your Success Criteria
69
Looking Outward
75
Asking the Grail Questions
79
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83
Looking Forward
91
DecisionMaking Outline
123
Acting on Your Goals
126
Free AgentEntrepreneur Characteristics Indicator
128
Looking Beyond
133
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