Create Your Future

An outline of the Create Your Future process

The following themes provide a framework:

Values and Actions
Choice and Responsibility
Independence and Interdependence
Purpose and Direction
Questions and Answers
Thinking and Feeling

We keep understanding and learning more about each of these as we develop our way through our lives and our careers.

This process gives you the tools to clarify what you want from your life now AND gives you the tools to continue growing and developing for a lifetime. You focus on answering three questions: Who am I? What do I want? How do I get it?

The process begins online with a series of questions to start you thinking deeply about your life and work experience.

The process continues with an intensive weekend workshop. The workshop contains a mixture of:

- short inputs on theory and practical models
- experiential exercises to build skills
- co-coaching work in small learning teams

The process then continues in the learning teams for as long as the people involved continue to meet.


Possible timetable


Phase One
Online Preparation: two hours

Phase Two
Group session: weekend
Creating a Learning Team for co-coaching

Phase Three
Co-coaching in the Learning Team


OPTIONAL EXTENSIONS at further cost

Further coaching with Walt
Followup weekend or evening




POSSIBLE CONTENT (depending on time available, questions asked, and specific interests of the participants

Designing My Career

Focus is on: Who am I? and What do I want?

Theories and models include:

Appreciative Inquiry
Learned Optimism
Synchronicity
Multiple Intelligences
Power of Mind
Values in Action

Skills to develop include:
Increasing my self-awareness
Reflecting
Journaling
Storytelling
Declaring my values
Matching my values and my actions
Choosing to take responsibility for myself
Creating futures
Identifying top skills and talents
Serious Dreaming—visualising possibilities and making them happen
Setting Priorities
Affirming Goals
Using others to support my growth
Recognising my sources of support
Identifying my kinds of support
Creating an ongoing Learning Team
Learning in a Learning Team

Implementing My Career

Focus is on: What do I want? and How do I get it?

Theories and models include:

Process Preferences
SPLASH model
Building Networks and Coalitions
Cost-Benefit Wheel
High Value/Low Cost Negotiating
Planning with Wants and Haves
WaSu Window

Skills to develop include:

Clarifying values and wants
Setting priorities about where to use my skills and talents
Increasing the range of ways to influence others
Increasing my effectiveness in groups
Increasing my awareness of organisational culture
Recognising the range of process preferences
Choosing appropriate process preferences for each situation
Interviewing for information
Interviewing for action
Networking
Coalition building
Learning and working in virtual environments
Influencing within an organisation