Showing posts with label vocation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocation. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Christian Warrior Online: WARSKYL on Steroids
My new blog is called Christian Warrior Online, and you can find it over at christianwarrior.co
Friday, March 20, 2009
MAPP & Your Resume
The following article came from a recent MAPP newsletter. I highly recommend that you take this free test.
Maybe it’s due to all the layoffs in the news, but lately I’ve
been getting emails from members asking how they can use MAPP to
update their resume. Let me respond by sharing how one of our
members did it.
Nancy wanted a job that she would enjoy. She realized that if a
job offered what she was already motivated to do, then the odds
were high that she’d love it. She also knew that the key was a
resume that reflected her motivations as well as her accomplishments.
Here’s how she did it.
First, she went through her MAPP and highlighted her top six traits;
the ones with the highest scores. Here’s what she found:
Change and variety: accept, utilize, cause change
Provide service dedicated to the interest of others
Literary and/or communicative orientation
Supervise: plan, manage work activity of others
Mentor: size up people, personalities, motives
Creative literary, communicative ability
Next she wove these traits into a Summary for the top of her resume.
When she was finished she was delighted. For the first time in her life
she was able to describe both what she enjoys and does best. She also
knew that if these traits weren’t important to an employer,
she would probably be bored in the position. Here’s Nancy Summary:
A goal-oriented professional who willingly accepts responsibility
for planning, assigning and supervising work activities. Thrives on
change and knows how to capitalize on it. Personal satisfaction
comes from helping others and uses strong communication skills to
express ideas, key concepts, growth and gain in the lives of others
and interacting with customers.
Finally, she turned her attention to the accomplishments listed in
the body of her resume. She made sure that they validated and
reinforced the traits mentioned in her Summary.
Friends told her that this type of resume wouldn’t appeal to every
hiring manager. That’s exactly what she was counting on. She didn’t
want any job. She wanted a job that was a good fit for her. And that
is what she got!
We learned from Nancy’s lead. If a Motivational Summary section on
her resume helped her land a job that she loves, other people, like
you, may find it useful too. By taking your top 6 motivations, we can
create a Motivational Qualities Report designed so that you can copy
and paste the statements onto the top of your resume. The Motivational
Qualities Report is complimentary with the purchase of the Career Seeker
or Executive Packages. Upgrade to one of these packages now.
http://www.assessment.com
Try it! Use your Motivational Qualities Report to create a great resume.
These packages also include additonal tests so you can further evaluate
your career path.
Maybe it’s due to all the layoffs in the news, but lately I’ve
been getting emails from members asking how they can use MAPP to
update their resume. Let me respond by sharing how one of our
members did it.
Nancy wanted a job that she would enjoy. She realized that if a
job offered what she was already motivated to do, then the odds
were high that she’d love it. She also knew that the key was a
resume that reflected her motivations as well as her accomplishments.
Here’s how she did it.
First, she went through her MAPP and highlighted her top six traits;
the ones with the highest scores. Here’s what she found:
Change and variety: accept, utilize, cause change
Provide service dedicated to the interest of others
Literary and/or communicative orientation
Supervise: plan, manage work activity of others
Mentor: size up people, personalities, motives
Creative literary, communicative ability
Next she wove these traits into a Summary for the top of her resume.
When she was finished she was delighted. For the first time in her life
she was able to describe both what she enjoys and does best. She also
knew that if these traits weren’t important to an employer,
she would probably be bored in the position. Here’s Nancy Summary:
A goal-oriented professional who willingly accepts responsibility
for planning, assigning and supervising work activities. Thrives on
change and knows how to capitalize on it. Personal satisfaction
comes from helping others and uses strong communication skills to
express ideas, key concepts, growth and gain in the lives of others
and interacting with customers.
Finally, she turned her attention to the accomplishments listed in
the body of her resume. She made sure that they validated and
reinforced the traits mentioned in her Summary.
Friends told her that this type of resume wouldn’t appeal to every
hiring manager. That’s exactly what she was counting on. She didn’t
want any job. She wanted a job that was a good fit for her. And that
is what she got!
We learned from Nancy’s lead. If a Motivational Summary section on
her resume helped her land a job that she loves, other people, like
you, may find it useful too. By taking your top 6 motivations, we can
create a Motivational Qualities Report designed so that you can copy
and paste the statements onto the top of your resume. The Motivational
Qualities Report is complimentary with the purchase of the Career Seeker
or Executive Packages. Upgrade to one of these packages now.
http://www.assessment.com
Try it! Use your Motivational Qualities Report to create a great resume.
These packages also include additonal tests so you can further evaluate
your career path.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Motivation and Talent
The following comes from the 2/06/09 MAPP Newsletter:
The Relationship Between Motivation and Talent
Hydrogen and oxygen are distinctly different elements, but sometimes they combine to form water. Something similar is true for motivation and talent.
Motivation is what we LIKE to do naturally. Talent is what
we DO well naturally. They can exist independently, but when
they combine, they create something special. They create
motivated talents.
People often are naturally good at something (talented), but it
just doesn’t turn them on. For example, Heather is good with
numbers, but she doesn’t go out of her way to find tasks calling
for that talent. Most people have such talents. But then there
are those talents that we really enjoy using. These are the
motivated talents, and this is where the magic is.
We use motivated talents every chance we get. Most of the time
we don’t even think about it. For example, Larry has a motivated
talent for conversation, and he naturally engages both friends and
strangers in dialog. He doesn’t consciously determine to do so;
it just happens. It’s natural and unforced. He enjoys it, and
he’s good at it. That’s the hallmark of a motivated talent.
Motivated talents tend to be irrepressible. They find expression.
In fact, if you’ve ever tried to stifle a motivated talent (either
yours or someone else’s) it probably felt like you were trying
to hold two dozen ping pong balls under water at the same time.
Motivated talents pop out, even if no one else is asking for them.
And doesn’t that make sense? After all, it’s what we do well
AND enjoy.
Well then, wouldn’t the ideal job be one where you can use your
motivated talents daily and get paid for it? Absolutely! But
more on that later.
What are your natural motivations? Shouldn’t your boss know? You
can let him/her know by giving them a copy of you own MAPP Assessment.
Take the MAPP Career Assessment Free
The Relationship Between Motivation and Talent
Hydrogen and oxygen are distinctly different elements, but sometimes they combine to form water. Something similar is true for motivation and talent.
Motivation is what we LIKE to do naturally. Talent is what
we DO well naturally. They can exist independently, but when
they combine, they create something special. They create
motivated talents.
People often are naturally good at something (talented), but it
just doesn’t turn them on. For example, Heather is good with
numbers, but she doesn’t go out of her way to find tasks calling
for that talent. Most people have such talents. But then there
are those talents that we really enjoy using. These are the
motivated talents, and this is where the magic is.
We use motivated talents every chance we get. Most of the time
we don’t even think about it. For example, Larry has a motivated
talent for conversation, and he naturally engages both friends and
strangers in dialog. He doesn’t consciously determine to do so;
it just happens. It’s natural and unforced. He enjoys it, and
he’s good at it. That’s the hallmark of a motivated talent.
Motivated talents tend to be irrepressible. They find expression.
In fact, if you’ve ever tried to stifle a motivated talent (either
yours or someone else’s) it probably felt like you were trying
to hold two dozen ping pong balls under water at the same time.
Motivated talents pop out, even if no one else is asking for them.
And doesn’t that make sense? After all, it’s what we do well
AND enjoy.
Well then, wouldn’t the ideal job be one where you can use your
motivated talents daily and get paid for it? Absolutely! But
more on that later.
What are your natural motivations? Shouldn’t your boss know? You
can let him/her know by giving them a copy of you own MAPP Assessment.
Take the MAPP Career Assessment Free
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Discerning God's Will for Your Vocation
Back when I was a teen (in a previous millennium), I used to hear a lot of youth leaders preach and teach about "finding God's will for your life." The path they set us on was basically to pray until the Lord gave us "peace" about what we were supposed to do.
Those messages often came with the warning that if we did not do this, we might "miss God's perfect will" for our lives. It would be a tragedy to settle for God's second best.
The "God's perfect will" messages hit us at a stage of life when most of us wonder about why we're here, what we should do with our lives, when we crave a rendezvous with destiny. As a consequence, the Christian young folk I knew (myself included) tended to speak about our options in terms of God's will.
"I think it's God's will to go to college (or the army, or to work for my uncle)." "I wonder what college major would be God's will?" "I believe it's God's will for us to go steady." And six months later, "I believe it's God's will for us to break up."
As I look back , I now realize how subjective it all was and how easily we found "peace" about the very thing we wanted to do in the first place. Then we justified it by attributing our own selfish choices it to God's will.
Of course every Christian should desire to do God's will. We were just looking for it in the wrong place. Rather late in life, I discovered some principles based on the Word of God that will guide the seeking Christian not only into God's will for his vocation, but for his family life, Christian service . . . well, every aspect of life.
A few years ago, I put those principles together into a mini-course of five lessons. When my pastor saw the course, he thought enough of it to encourage the youth of our church to all sign up for it.
I am now offering these lessons free of all cost or obligation to anyone who would like to study them. Furthermore, if you'd like to make the course part of your ministry, I will supply the html code so that people can sign up for it right from your own church's (or other ministry's) website rather than having to send them to my business site.
If you're interested in making the course available in this way, contact me at gravelbelly@gmail.com
Here is the link:
Discerning God's Will
NOTE: When I go to that page using Firefox, for some reason the sign-up grid does not load if my Bookmarks or History is open in the sidebar. So, if you don't see the fields for signing up, try closing your sidebar.
Those messages often came with the warning that if we did not do this, we might "miss God's perfect will" for our lives. It would be a tragedy to settle for God's second best.
The "God's perfect will" messages hit us at a stage of life when most of us wonder about why we're here, what we should do with our lives, when we crave a rendezvous with destiny. As a consequence, the Christian young folk I knew (myself included) tended to speak about our options in terms of God's will.
"I think it's God's will to go to college (or the army, or to work for my uncle)." "I wonder what college major would be God's will?" "I believe it's God's will for us to go steady." And six months later, "I believe it's God's will for us to break up."
As I look back , I now realize how subjective it all was and how easily we found "peace" about the very thing we wanted to do in the first place. Then we justified it by attributing our own selfish choices it to God's will.
Of course every Christian should desire to do God's will. We were just looking for it in the wrong place. Rather late in life, I discovered some principles based on the Word of God that will guide the seeking Christian not only into God's will for his vocation, but for his family life, Christian service . . . well, every aspect of life.
A few years ago, I put those principles together into a mini-course of five lessons. When my pastor saw the course, he thought enough of it to encourage the youth of our church to all sign up for it.
I am now offering these lessons free of all cost or obligation to anyone who would like to study them. Furthermore, if you'd like to make the course part of your ministry, I will supply the html code so that people can sign up for it right from your own church's (or other ministry's) website rather than having to send them to my business site.
If you're interested in making the course available in this way, contact me at gravelbelly@gmail.com
Here is the link:
Discerning God's Will
NOTE: When I go to that page using Firefox, for some reason the sign-up grid does not load if my Bookmarks or History is open in the sidebar. So, if you don't see the fields for signing up, try closing your sidebar.
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