Map Your Career: 5 Visual Tools to Find Clarity and Direction

Today is our first attempt to borrow brilliance from an object and that object is maps. One of the really important component parts of a map that makes them particularly helpful is that they are visual and actually when you look at lots of examples of career maps, there's a real lack of visuals. Map number one is an energy map. Every day I would just ask myself, when did I have the most energy today? And when did I have the least energy?

The give gain map. You think about the people in your career that you support and who support you. Skills mapping. There are the skills that you want to stretch and the skills that maybe you want to invest more in. Career possibility mapping.

Lots of people get sort of stuck in their career. So we're trying to encourage a little bit of curiosity here and use possibility mapping as a way to do that. Problem mapping. How could you use a map to sort of make sense of that problem so that you're not just going around in circles, you're actually doing something about it.

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