How to Download PASSION AND PURPOSE: How to identify and leverage the powerful patterns that shape your work/life RTF
PASSION AND PURPOSE provides a self-guided process for identifying the critical components of work activity that you are best-suited to perform in your job/career. Our interviews with thousands of people in diverse work/life situations have consistently revealed a common characteristic for those who report a meaningful, successful career/life: They have used their passions to achieve their purpose; they have engaged in work that is fulfilling to them and that leverages their natural talents. This insight is essential for making INFORMED decisions about your work and life - and for developing strategies to leverage your vocationally-significant strengths. The assessment that serves as the foundation for PASSION AND PURPOSE is behavior-based, as contrasted to popularized preference-based assessments (e.g. Strengths Finder, MyersBriggs) whose results are often misleading because responses are easily distorted by the respondent's desires and cultural biases. SIMA shows how your passions can become fuzzy in early life when you decide to pursue goals that are expected of you rather than goals that are personally meaningful. When you depend on external standards and rewards like compensation and security, you can lose sight of what it is that you are actually MOTIVATED to do. The natural strengths that you demonstrate throughout your life are called your Motivational Pattern. Everyone's pattern of recurring motivations is unique, and once defined, it is a powerful tool for evaluating job fit,setting career goals, and achieving truly fulfilling lifework. Your pattern will define the aspects of your life that are irrepressible, recurring and enduring. While defining your own Motivational Pattern might seem to be a complicated process, PASSION AND PURPOSEoffers a simple, well-defined method for helping the reader through the steps.Your Motivational Patterns covers five aspects of motivation, helping you to understand the complexity as well as the flexibility of your motivation. Your Motivational Pattern consists of (1) the "payoff" or "outcome" you seek from your efforts, (2) the Motivated Abilities you have (those abilities that you never tire of using) (3) the Subject Matter you like to work through (people, tools,concepts, music, numbers,etc.) (4) the Circumstances that trigger your motivation (how do you get involved, how much structure do you need, what type of recognition do you need, etc.) and (5) the Operating Relationships you seek in your work (Do you work alone, as a team member, an influencer, a director, a leader, etc.). PASSION AND PURPOSE presents a compelling explanation of why we must make this effort to identify our natural talents. The authors cite hundreds of case studies confirming that individuals are happier, more effective, and more successful if their work engages their own life-long pattern of passion and purpose. While this may seem obvious, many people do believe that they are "putty," that they can be molded to "fit" (and to succeed) in any job or assignment if they apply themselves. But how many people do you know who spend a significant amount of time wishing they were somewhere else instead of work? Despite their talent or intelligence, people may not feel successful if they are not tapping into their natural or motivated strengths. For readers who would like professional assistance in identifying their pattern and their "best-fit" job/career, expert SIMA counselors are available at our website www.motivationalpattern.com.About the Authors: Marlys Hanson, M.S. has worked for 25 years as an internal and external consultant on career issues of knowledge workers in Fortune 100 companies, top government agencies and entrepreneurial teams, both domestic and international. She is a past National President of ASTD (now ATD).Merle Hanson, Ph.D.,author of over 40 technical publications and patents,has managed technology and technologists in a variety of R & D environments
