How To Plan Effectively: Professionally And Personally

Welcome to my book about how to plan effectively, professionally and personally throughout the chapters of your WorkLife Story. Here is a preview of what's inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these.

WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically.

Developing an effective professional and personal WorkLife action plan guides you in the short-term and long-term towards achieving what is important to you in your WorkLife. It helps you to make the best decisions for you in achieving that. And it helps you to navigate through good, challenging and bad times.

In this book I tell three stories:

1. Following my WorkLife Plan in Times of Uncertain: Petra's story of how she followed her WorkLife plan to get her foot in the door of her chosen industry, during an economic downturn.
2. Get Personal with Your Learning and Development Planning: Ely's story of how he talked about the importance of personal as well as professional WorkLife planning in his address to students.
3. The Importance of Personal Mission and Vision Statements in Your WorkLife Planning:Jacinta's story of how having a clear Mission and Vision Statement helped steer her short-term and long-term planning in driving her progress and success.

I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through:

Create Your Shorter Term WorkLife Plan Assignment
This assignment is to help you to think about what your WorkLife looks like, by looking at what you are doing today, and what you want to be doing in eighteen-months' time.

Create Your Self-Coaching Plan Assignment
This assignment is to help you to develop your self-coaching plan based on the areas you identified in your shorter-term plan.

Create Your Longer Term WorkLife Plan Assignment
This assignment is to help you to think about your dreams and aspirations by identifying what you will be doing at the pinnacle of your WorkLife.

Create Your WorkLife Action Plan Assignment
This assignment is to help you to articulate your envisioned future, and from this to write the continuing chapters of your WorkLife story.

Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback
This assignment is to help you to look beyond your workplace to detect shifts and changes that might impact your WorkLife planning.

Develop a Practice of Insightful Self-Questioning
This assignment is to help you to tap into the power of effective questions to stimulate good conversations to help you develop your WorkLife plan from an informed standpoint.

Get Personal with Your Learning and Development Planning Assignment
This assignment is to help you to identify attributes and values that reflect your personal goals.

Carry Out a SWOT Analysis on Your Personal Learning and Development Plan Assignment
This assignment is to help you to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of your plan.

Review Your Personal Learning and Development Plan Journaling Assignment
This assignment is to help you to review your progress.

Develop Your Mission Statement Assignment
This assignment is to help you to encapsulate why you do what you do, what you do, and how you do it, and to connect this to your bigger WorkLife plan.

Develop Your Vision Statement Assignment
This assignment is to help you to encapsulate the desired future position of your WorkLife.

Develop Your Short-Term and Long-Term Goals/Objectives

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