In a coaching call this week a client let the word slip that she was going to create a silly spreadsheet as part of her job search and I had to jump in and interrupt. I invited her to drop the word ‘silly’ to describe her spreadsheet as she was in the company of someone who LOVES a good spreadsheet.
Honestly, I get overly excited about a framework...and I’m assuming you do too. It's just so darn satisfying to see a beautiful framework with structure and process and a plan and...*swoon*.
I've been doing my work for years now and although I've created a lot of frameworks in my day (I was once called a framework creating machine and I loved it), I didn’t have a big unifying framework for all the work that I do until recently.
Before I show you the lovely visual, I want to share the main insights from the framework. I discovered that there's one word that ties together my entire body of work: CHOICE.
Everything I do is about choice.
At the end of that day, I want you to get to actively CHOOSE what is right for you. I have no idea what's right for you, your family and friends have no idea what's right for you, only YOU know what's right for you. And that doesn’t mean that it’s easy or that the workplace is set up for you to get to choose what’s right for you - it’s actually difficult due to many systemic barriers in the workplace. But the most you can identify your own choice, the most you can find your agency to align those choices with the best environment you can.
Next, I use 3 tools to get achieve choice: Release, Clarity, and Activation.
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We have to release a lot of the expectations we have from ourselves and others, we need clarity about our own story and what we want, and we need to get into pro-active mode to cultivate opportunities that fit.
There are three modules for each tool:
Release:
Lose the Noise: Get rid of the expectations, pressures, and shoulds
Kickstart the Kindness: Self-compassion always wins over self-criticism
Honor Your Wiring: We don't care about what works for other people, we care about what works for YOU
Clarity:
Rebuild Your Trust: You've been shaken by past decisions, let's get clear on why those weren't a personal failing
Demystify Your Story: Whatever you're trying to hide is probably part of your unique value
Claim Your Consistency: You are a deeply consistent human and everything makes sense about your path so far
Activation
Align Your Actions: Find where you have agency to align with what's right for you
Craft Your Conversations: There's no time for generic career conversations, learn how to create questions that matter to you
Crush the Chaos: No more waffling. Make decisions with unshakeable confidence that you know are right for you
And the final beautiful piece of the framework?
When you have Release + Clarity you experience Confidence.
When you have Clarity + Activation you experience Conviction.
And when you have Activation + Release you experience Agency.
BEHOLD:
6+ years of work in a silly beautiful, imperfect, exciting framework.
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