Clarifying Your Career Goals with Dr. Laurie Addison

The 45 minute virtual webinar format, offered a 30 minute workshop, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A, addressing numerous questions for our participants, such as: Are you feeling stuck in your career? Not sure what’s next? Considering different career paths? Wondering how to successfully make a career transition?

Dr. Addison, is an incredible executive and leadership development coach focusing on advancing leaders to achieve their goals through positive psychology and a mission to bring forward results-driven, empathetic, inclusive, healthy, and purposeful business leaders.

The Key Takeaways:

1. Identify your core values and character strengths
2. Find the why, or the goal behind the goal
3. Discover your career/business mission statement
4. Create clear goals that align to your mission, your core values and your character strengths, then put all of your strengths to work to achieve your goals
5. Use the SMART goals framework to refine and stay on track, Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time based

Dr. Laurie Addison’s book recommendations for you:

1. Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, by Simon Sinek & TedTalk
2. Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life and Let Go of Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck, Ph.D
4. Your Best Year Ever: A 5-step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals, by Michael Hyatt
5. Big Potential: Five Secrets of Reaching Higher by Powering Those Around Your, by Shawn Achor & TedTalk
6. For more books and workbooks on Goals, refer to the top listing from Positive Psychology