Of course, one
would not want to use only one measure of anything as a sole factor
in making a career decision. But what I'm saying is that if I had
only one factor to choose, it wouldn't be personality type….
It would be what you want. What you desire. What you have
passion for. What you dream about. What you enjoy the most.
What you care about. What you have a talent for. Those are the kinds
of things to pay attention to in choosing, developing and managing
a career. As Eric Hoffer has said, You can never get enough of
what you don't really want.
In this book,
personality type is not used to tell you what to do, that is, what
career to choose. Rather it is tool for personal mastery in that it
can give you insight into how you approach all the steps
it takes to take charge of your own career development. Knowing your
personality style gives you useful information about how you might
approach the different elements necessary in finding, building and
managing a career.
The Elements of
Career Mastery™ are five processes that capture the qualities,
skills, and activities commonly found in all career development work.
You can think of the elements as behavioral options in your toolkit
of Career Mastery. You can't be a master craftsman if you use only
one tool - you need to use all the tools that are available to you,
each at the appropriate time. The Elements of Career Mastery also
describe practices that can help you increase your satisfaction and
effectiveness in your current work role. The Elements of
Career Mastery are linked to the Elements of Power™, a model
of personal development and effectiveness that builds on the insights,
experiences and research of both traditional and modern psychologies.
In short, this
book will help you clarify what you want, and to wake up to how your
personality style can help you get what you want, and how
the habits of your style might get in the way of your getting
what you want…
This
is where the real power of personality type comes in. Type gives you
clues to which activities of the elements you might naturally be inclined
to do, and which you might neglect. Another way of saying it is that
type gives you clues to where your attention gets trapped - clues
to the preoccupations of your personality style that distract you
and keep you from living from your essence…Are you able to step
out of your personality's habitual ways of responding to life and
to your environment long enough to see you need to do something different
to enhance your career development and effectiveness?
Are
you ready to take charge of your career?
