Job Crafting Exercise

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The Job Crafting Exercise is a tool that helps you identify opportunities to make your job more engaging and fulfilling. To do this, the exercise encourages you to view your job in a new way — as a flexible set of building blocks rather than a fixed list of duties. Using this perspective, you create a visual plan for redesigning your job to better fit your motives, strengths, and passions. You can use the exercise on your own, or administer it to others in workshops, one-on-one coaching, or classroom teaching.



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Testimonials

"A very short exercise that reveals a truckload of information and insight. It helped me believe that I'll be able to start liking and enjoying my job."
-Project Manager

"I turned down a job offer this week because the exercise opened my eyes that the things I dislike about my current job are things that I can change - through job crafting — to where I'll enjoy my job again."
-Administrative Assistant

"Enlightening... made me realize what I liked about my job and what I didn't in a clearer way than I thought possible."
-Benefits Analyst

"Forced me to look at my job in a different way — enabled me to see positive aspects I had not seen before. It's interesting to see what you come up with when you're asked questions you aren't usually asked."
-Account Executive

"The way it aligned my strengths, motives, and passions with my day-to-day tasks was a great learning exercise. It helped clarify some of these connections and how we can leverage our strengths to achieve our motives."
-Systems Development Engineer

"Matters for what I'll do tomorrow, not ten years and two jobs later."
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