How To Design Your Career Game Plan

By Colleta Macharia

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How to Design Your Career GAME PLAN © offers guidance and clarity to those who want to develop a career that responds to the yearnings of their heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: PUBLISHING INSTITUTE OF AFRICA
• Release date: Jun 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393333579

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ENDORSEMENTS

How to Design Your Career GAME PLAN© is a very insightful book. It is practical and challenges the reader to ACT. The acronyms GAME and PLAN remain embedded in one’s thought process, while the stories and reflection questions make it relatable. It will leave the reader with action points to get into their GAME and play it according to a concise PLAN. For example, the book has challenged me to look into identifying and maintaining a support system. Many people I have counselled as a pastor have questions that this book answers very well. I would recommend it not just to entrants into the job market, but to those of us in the marketplace.

John Paul Mugendi

Teaching Pastor, Good Shepherd Africa Gospel Church

Nairobi, Kenya

How to Design Your Career GAME PLAN© is a well thought out, practical, and engaging guide for anyone beginning their career or making career transitions. It also has relevance for those set in their careers who can rely on the ideas, tips, and tools provided to make any necessary course corrections.

The examples and anecdotes are fresh and relatable and help bring out the message. The resources included are a welcome bonus. The reader can work on the exercises alone or as part of a peer accountability group where participants support one another in understanding their GAME and formulating their PLAN. I highly recommend this book for anyone serious about realising their full potential and succeeding in their career and life.

Joyce Kaduki

Leadership Facilitator, Speaker and Coach Founder and Director, Primo Strategy Limited Founding Partner of The John Maxwell Team in Nairobi,

Kenya.

The message in How to Design Your Career GAME PLAN© is compelling. It is not just a good read, but a timely, relevant resource for a broad age group. I relate with the book on two grounds—first, as one who has faltered in my career development, and second, as a parent who worries how my daughters will be able to ‘find their voice’ as they come of age.

Netsanet Tsegaw

Managing Partner at Ghebbi Associates

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

How to Design Your Career GAME PLAN© is a good guide on how to cope with and manage the twists and turns of a career in today’s unsettling times.

Brian C Lloyd

Finance Professional (Retired)

Stafford, England

When you encounter an experience that triggers a career dilemma, you need all the support and guidance you can get, because lack of clarity when in such a quandary can be debilitating. How to Design Your Career GAME PLAN© offers guidance and clarity to those who want to develop a career that responds to the yearnings of their heart.

HOW TO DESIGN YOUR CAREER GAME PLAN©: A guide to help you unlock your inner strengths and optimise your opportunities Copyright© 2020 Colleta N Macharia

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Printed in Kenya.

For David, David Jr, and Jonathan.

The most valued players in my game.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way…

Proverbs 14:8, NKJV

CONTENTS

Endorsements

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface

How to Use This Book

PART 1

Understanding Your GAME©

Take Stock of Your Gifts

Take Stock of Your Attributes

Consider Your Motivation(s)

Bring in Your Experience(s)

Summarising Your GAME

PART 2

Formulating Your PLAN©

Pick Your Playground

Leverage Your Assets

Articulate Your Value Proposition

Nurture Yourself

Summarising Your PLAN

PART 3

Support for the Journey

PART 4

Afterword

Resources

References

Endnotes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Igive thanks to God for leading me through the experiences that allowed me to live out my GAME PLAN and for the interactions and experiences that shaped the idea to become material that could be shared with others.

Special thanks to my husband, David, for your immense support in every way. Thank you for listening to and embracing all my ideas—including the crazy ones—and reading, critiquing, and providing input into all the versions of the manuscript and encouraging me to publish this work.

To Netsanet Tsegaw, Sumbella Khan, Susan Kiamba, Ramon Rocha III, and Joy Mutiso: thank you for taking your precious time to support me in the developmental process of this book. Your critique was thorough and your feedback pivotal. I think you all must add detailed analysts as part of your attributes!

To my fantastic squad of four: David Macharia Jr, Jonathan Macharia, Natalie Duarte, and Morris Gatuna—I am grateful to you for poring over the manuscript, answering the questions, and sharing your feedback with me. Thank you, Jonathan and Natalie, for letting me use some of your responses as examples.

Thank you, Elizabeth Omol, for your advice on intellectual property matters.

To Nancy Njiraini and Pastor John Paul, thank you for sharing specific lightbulb moments you experienced as a result of reading the book and the actions you are taking to enhance your GAME PLAN.

To my life coach Joyce Kaduki and my author friend Joan Campbell, I remain grateful for all those conversations we have had regarding this book and the feedback you shared after reading it.

For those whose examples and stories have gone