Designing the Work Life of Your Dreams
The Antidote for Feeling Like You Just Don’t Fit at Work
Designing the Work Life of Your Dreams
The Antidote for Feeling Like You Just Don’t Fit at Work
The Antidote for Feeling Like You Just Don’t Fit at Work
The Antidote for Feeling Like You Just Don’t Fit at Work
We are an online community offering support, networking, connection, advice, insight and comaraderie if you are:
OUT OF WORK, particularly if you are over 40
HAVE A KNOT in your stomach on SUNDAY NIGHT
Want to EXPLORE SELF EMPLOYMENT, running a business or entrepreneurship
A subscription to THE ALTERNATE FUTURE will give you access to an encouraging group of peers who will share and celebrate your wins, help you brainstorm new approaches and leverage your learning in ways that more passive actions like reading site, listening to podcasts and scrolling the job board cannot emulate
After a long career in corporate America, entrepreneurship, academia, and Talent Acquisition, Gregory Sparzo created The Alternate Future to help people DESIGN THE WORK LIFE OF THEIR DREAMS
He started collecting research on Work Life as an undergrad and most recently became a CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER of the Kirton Adaptors & Innovators Inventory, a validated instrument that measures your preferred problem style; something that drastically affects your productivity, job satisfaction and performance. Gregory used that and his interest in online communities to create THE ALTERNATE FUTURE. You can lean more about him via his Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sparzo.
The Alternate Future is a place to figure out why you might be feeling frustrated and that you just don’t fit in at work, and how you might design a new, better, more fulfilling and more productive career path.
It is a 3 PART PROCESS:
THE TEST: We help by starting with an assessment of your problem-solving style and its concomitant work style. By problem-solving style we mean how you like to approach and work through problems. We see it as a spectrum of preferred ways to work.
Every person fits somewhere on the Adaption-Innovation spectrum—from those who love lots of structure and an organized set of parameters to others who prefer a more free-wheeling, open approach.
While you can change your actual behavior at work, academic research suggests that your problem solving style does not change over time.
Think of your problem-solving style as a subset of your work style. WORK STYLE is a mix of your problem-solving style PLUS the level of compromise you are willing to live with in jobs that are not an exact match for your preferred way of working.
We accomplish this assessment phase of the process with a “test” instrument called the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI). The KAI is a statistically valid measure of your problem-solving style. After you take the KAI you will be provided with a written report describing your style, the implications of having that style in terms of work environment and how your style interplays with your work peers.
Once you understand your work style we will walk you through a comparison of your ideal work style and your current one. If you find that your current gig is satisfactory, you can proceed with your new found understanding and make the best of it.
THE WORKBOOK If you are experiencing undue stress and like you do not fit in, we will walk you through The Alternate Future’s 8-Step Transformation Process & Workbook. The Workbook is a way to systematically determine what a change in career or workstyle can look like and the concrete steps you need to take to get there. Once completed, you will have a personalized guide to the steps you need to take right now to start the transformation.
THE COMMUNITY. If the Workbook and the KAI are sufficient, you will walk away armed with a plan to change your work situation for the better. If you’d like more, The Alternate Future offers a membership in the FORUM, which is an online platform to discuss your journey with others on the same path, hear from guest speakers, attend live streaming events and watch our growing library of video and audio on transformation and related topics.
Our research shows that before joining us, whether as a job seeker, someone who wants to redesign their work life or explore self-employment, people report feeling:
anxious
dissatisfied
trapped
frustrated
devalued.
AFTER, you will feel:
empowered
excited
motivated
satisfied
mentally well
The KAI is the basis for figuring out your most satisfying WORK LIFE. Your preferred style of doing, thinking and problem solving plays an important role in your job satisfaction, performance and effectiveness. We combine KAI and the Transformation Workbook with online connection to change your life.
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