Clare hosted a webinar this morning for Pro-manchester on Crafting Your Career.
The webinar was well received and the feedback was great. It was full of tips and guidance on how and why changing your role is an important step to take in learning to love your job.
Below is a summary of what was covered:
- Reflecting on careers in a pandemic
- Turning the job you have into the job you love
- Job crafting: what is it, how do we do it and why should we do it?
- 3 categories of job crafting: task crafting, relational crafting and cognitive crafting
- Job crafting on a smaller scale
- Creating meaning in our work: The PERMA Model
- WOOP and Stop, Start, Continue Coaching Models
- Things we can do in shaping our jobs
- Useful resources
Some questions asked by participants were as follows:
Q: How do you ensure that there is alignment between organisational goals and individual goals?
A: 1) communicate organisational goals 2) ask yourself how you can achieve what the organsation needs 3) how can you link what is important for you to doing what is needed for the organisation?
Q: What one thing would you reposition in your role and how would you go about it?
A: Firstly determine what you like and what you do not like about your role, keeping a diary and writing these daily helps with this. Finding a mentor and/or building your social capital and building your network are also great starting points.
The recording of today’s webinar is attached below and the slides to go alongside the webinar can be downloaded here.
Thank you to everyone who took part and if you wish to discuss any of what you have read/watched, click here if you want to discuss your coaching needs.
