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Purpose & Impact

by Anita Hoffmann

April 2018

Intermediate to advanced

278 pages

8h 13m

English

Routledge

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The ‘Mid/Later’ Career Stage is Now Age 50–80Knowing How to Develop Our Careers Will Be Vital to Flourish Over the Long HaulWhy Now Really is the Time to Pursue a Purpose-Driven CareerSuccessful Careers With Purpose Are Conceived ‘On the Job’Why This Book?How This Book is OrganisedHow to Use This BookPurpose Can Be Found EverywhereNotes
Purpose is a Verb – Not a Noun – and it is Not a CauseThe Human Desire for Purpose Beyond OurselvesPurpose is an Important Aspect of Engagement and Well-Being for EmployeesPurpose-Driven Companies Deliver Better Financial ReturnsDelivering Purpose is the Next Stage of Economic DevelopmentWhy is This Happening Now in Society – and Where Are We Heading?TakeawaysNotes
Impact: Material Effect on Solving an Issue in SocietyImpact: For Individuals, Business and SocietyThe Rise of Global Impact Coalitions to Achieve ScaleThe Ultimate Goal is to Address Inequalities for People in Local CommunitiesPersonal: How Can I Make Material Impact?We Can Effect Change on Major World Issues – Working TogetherScandals and Outrage: Food for Momentous ChangeWhy This Really is the Time to Start a Purpose-Driven CareerTakeawaysNotes
Why Career Development Skills Will Be a Vital Skill Going Forward‘No One Works for Mckinsey Forever’ – or for Any Other OrganisationAlumni: We Are Also Immensely Valuable After Leaving an OrganisationWe Should Have Our Careers in ‘Permanent Beta’TakeawaysNotes
Career Change, Career Transitions and Career Transformational AssetsThe Career Transition ProcessThe Career Change ProcessHelpful PracticesWe Keep Discovering and Iterating – There is No ‘Final’ DestinationTakeawaysNotes
Leadership: Then, Now and Going ForwardExternally Oriented Leadership Competencies‘Corporate Diplomacy’ Skills and CompetenciesTri-Sector SkillsHow Did Executives Develop Tri-Sector Skills and Competencies?Digital Skills Will Be Needed Everywhere By Everyone!TakeawaysNotes
Demystifying ‘Finding Purpose’Job-Crafting Allows Us to Build Our New Career While at Our EmployerTakeawaysNotes
How to Affect Societal Change – and Create Career Change With PurposeDiscovery: Just Getting Started is the Important ThingTakeawaysNotes
Three Areas for Discovering Our Big QuestionCreating a New Frame of Reference: What Do You Appreciate About Me?The Semi-Structured ‘Dump–sort–Contemplate– Choose’ ProcessWhat Societal Need Engages Me: Using the Sdgs to Start DiscoveryWhat Interests Me – Deeply?Openness to New Experiences: Creating Opportunities for Big Questions to EmergeAcquiring Knowledge About Our Chosen AreasBuilding a Strategic and Diverse Network: To Learn and Problem-SolveFirst Conversations Are About Wide Exploration – and New IntroductionsThere is No Right or Wrong Topic, Size or Activity – Enjoy the JourneyTakeawaysNotes
Fruition: Five Areas for Making Our Purpose RealityBig Questions and Purpose: Not Complicated, Just FuzzyPurpose-Driven Careers Often Unfold in Three StagesThe Business Case: Matching My Purpose and the Organisation’s StrategyBusiness Models – for Our External Next Stage CareerFull-Time Executive Career ChoicesPortfolio, Hyphen, Slash and Gig CareersGetting Paid Market Rates for Your Work – and the Power of Fractional CapitalAnd the Journey Never Really Has to End . . . TakeawaysNotes
Long Lives Mean Several Transitions in Our CareersTri-Sector Skills Development – Not Only for Millennial LeadersCareer Development Programmes: Tech and Strat Consulting Lead the WayPre-Retirement Programmes: Professional Services Gaining MomentumCorporate Pre-/Post-Retirement Programmes Emerging: Mainly TechnicalThe ‘Career for Life’ Concept: Being Seen as Employees Also When We LeaveHow Do Leading Organisations Do This?Integrated Career Development Practices for Mid to Late Career ExecutivesPractices for Developing New Leadership (And Career Development Skills) for Mid/Later Career ExecutivesTakeawaysNotes
Notes
The Top Six Competencies and Their DefinitionsNote
1 Identifying Hidden Skills and Abilities: What Do You Appreciate About Me?2 Deeply Understanding What You Are Good at and Enjoy Doing3 Making a Skills Inventory4 My Competencies: The ‘How and With What Impact’ We Achieve Things5 Externally Oriented Leadership Competencies6 Tri-Sector Skills7 We Continue to Develop Insight as We Go DiscoveringNotes
1 Linkedin Etiquette2 Strategic Linkedin Networking: First-Level Connections3 Strategic Linkedin Networking: Second-Level Connections4 Strategic Linkedin Networking: Third-Level Connections

Overview

Aimed at senior professionals who are seeking new challenges, this book is the first to provide clear guidance on how to rethink and relaunch careers that align with wider purpose and societal impact.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781351048927