Changing Roles in Turbulent Times
Assessing job fit when the future feels volatile
How do you know what job to take when everything feels so uncertain?
Whenever we make a career decision, it's influenced by what we imagine the future will be like. If the future feels precarious you might seek a job that provide stability and security, even if it doesn't excite you, while a prosperous future might inspire you to chase roles that provide autonomy, mastery and purpose.
For so many of us, the extended waves of impact that COVID-19 brings has threatened the imagined future we usually default to when making these kinds of choices, and we have not yet formed a stable alternative vision of the future to measure our decision-making against.
This course began as an exercise I designed for my own use. After a decade of leading and coaching change in public health, the ambitious plans I had for 2020 were flipped on their head by the arrival of multiple high impact, high uncertainty events that required me to rapidly reorient how I was thinking about the future, and find a way to make decisions about work while holding multiple possible futures in my mind.
So how do you make decisions about major commitments, like taking on a new role, when it's hard to imagine what normal might look like in even in a few months time?
Benefits
After completing this course, you will be able to:
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Clearly describe what you need from a new role
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Assess how a job meets your needs in four different possible futures
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Recognise the right job for right now
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Say yes to an offer with greater confidence and less anxiety
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Feel more grounded and less stuck
Self-paced content, ready whenever you are
Take it fast or slow, and return anytime
Course curriculum
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What does good work look like to me?
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Looking back
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My favourite job
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My worst job
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My first job
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My last job
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What do I value in work?
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Working with uncertainty
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Identifying uncertainties
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Finding a focus
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Four futures
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Four future scenarios
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North star & essential requirements
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Nice to haves
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Allowing for other unknowns
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Work arounds
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Putting it into practice: Assessing job fit
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Does this job provide what I'm seeking?
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Does this job fit my four futures?
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Adapt & reorient
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Next steps
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Where to next?
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Before you go...
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Delivery
This program is delivered online, using video, text and diagrams, and a downloadable workbook. You will be guided through a series of exercises to develop your own personalised tools.
The content is self-paced, and takes approximately 2 to 2.5 hours to complete. You can work through the material in one sitting or space it out. Once purchased you retain full access, and can return to the course at any time.
Instructor
Foresight Consultant & Improvement Coach
Amanda Reeves
Amanda Reeves is the Founder & Primary Consultant at Wabi Sabi Futures, a Melbourne-based strategic foresight consultancy providing coaching, facilitation & capability building for sensing and responding to the future as it emerges. Amanda's practice draws on a decade of deep experience in leading and facilitating change in complex systems, having provided strategic coaching, change leadership, policy development and service redesign in public health. She is passionate about finding ways to make foresight practices accessible, and helping others learning to navigate through new terrain.
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Testimonials
What real people are saying about this course
Shreeda Segan
This course provides a rare breath of fresh air in a time of such uncertainty. It can be easy to slip into avoidance and overwhelm. The prompts in this course help you regain a sense of being in control over your fate while not dismissing the uncertainty ahead. This would be a great tool for someone looking to change roles in such a turbulent time by providing a sense of: yes, you can have it all. You can find the right job for you at this time.
Jane Louise
This course really helps you break down what it is you want, in a format that is easy and repeatable. I'll be using this regularly from now on.
Lauren
This course supports, yet challenges you, to consider what you truly value in a role. Through completion of the activities I have a clearer understanding of what to look for in a future role and to determine whether it will fit with my needs.
Sharon
Committing to the course allowed me to create time for myself to explore what I valued about work and a workplace, and understanding what makes me happy and fulfilled at work. With my contract soon to finish, I am feeling much more confident in choosing what roles I will apply for next, where previously I was just looking for any vacancies and not really understanding what 'my essential ingredients' for satisfying work are.