GLOBAL HIT • Finally, a book that shows you how to replace career uncertainty with career confidence, step-by-step Before they make important decisions, entrepreneurs, scientists, and other professionals maximize results and minimize risk by testing future scenarios using models. Now you, too, can use models to test career decisions: with the single-page visual method that's already helping hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide. Careers were complicated enough before explosive changes swept the world, igniting even greater complexity and triggering uncertainty—along with hidden opportunities. All of this compels professionals to reinvent how they work. But how? The key is to draw a visual "picture" of your work—a model —that quickly gives you an entirely new understanding of what your work means to employers, customers, colleagues—and you. This model instantly triggers new insights and identifies next career moves you can make with confidence. Readers of the first edition of Business Model You will find this all-new, full-color book deepens their understanding of the method with new tools and techniques including the Work Model Canvas, Outward Focus, Third Objects, The Three Questions, the " Passion" Myth, the Valuable Work Detector, and Reasons to Choose You. Examples covering 50 occupations in both commercial and not-for-profit sectors are features, all alphabetically indexed at the front of the book. A global hit available in 20 languages, Business Model You pioneered the model-based approach to work reinvention that's been adopted for use by thousands of corporations, universities, and not-for-proit organizations worldwide. Want to replace career uncertainty with career confidence? Reinvent the most important model of all: Business Model You . Cover Copyright page Title page How Business Model You® Started Business Model You® Partners and Certified Practitioners People Like You Featured in This Book Contents 1 Diagram Chapter 1: The Key to Workplace Satisfaction and the Cure for Workplace Suffering A Bigger View of Work Why Business Models? Changing Times, Changing Models People Must Change, Too Work Models for Everyone An Ecology of Work Career “Planning” Is Dead: Long Live Work Modeling Chapter 2: To Understand Your Work, Understand Your Workplace The Business Model Canvas Every Organization Has a Business Model Who Is the Customer? What Jobs Do Customers Need to Have Done? The Harsh Truth Why Pictures? The Nine Building Blocks A Way to Understand the World of Work Systems Thinking for the Rest of Us Thinking Ahead Is Good, Thinking Outward Is Better The Enterprise Service Model Canvas Next Steps for You Chapter 3: Next, Diagram How You Work The Work Model Canvas Your First Work Model: Drafting Time! The Power of “Third Objects” to Help You—and Others Self-Check Your As-Is Model 2 Reflect Chapter 4 Now, Identify “Hotspots” and Refine Your Professional Identity Time for Reflection “Hotspots”: What They Are and How to Identify Them Daughters and Fathers How to Spot Pain or Potential Deal with Hotspots Using the Three Questions How to Navigate Career Space Your “North Star” for a Lifelong Career Journey Define Your Superpower How to Define Your Professional Identity A Message to the Unsure The “Passion” Myth Design Your Life Three Things You Can “Make” Avoid Gravity Problems Stuck? Try This Before Turning the Page, Ask Yourself... 3 Revise Chapter 5: Revise Your Work Model A New Role for a New Customer How to Revise Your Work Model The Power of Prototyping Different Stages, Different Models Calculating Costs and Consequences Ask Diagnostic Questions Modify Blocks and Evaluate Effects Re-Diagram Your Model Should You Become Self-Employed? Pivoting from Employee to Entrepreneur Pause and Ask Yourself... 4 Test Chapter 6: Now, Test Your Work Model Eric Tests His Revised Model What If Your Situation Differs from Eric’s? The Valuable Work Detector Testing Detects More Valuable Work How to Test Models How Professionals Test Work Models Who to Approach and What to Say Script for a First-Time Referral Contact Meet Your Referrals The Secret Question How to Obtain “Insider” Data Should You Become Self-Employed? Disadvantage Becomes Superpower Coach Yourself Now! Chapter 7: Brand and Promote Yourself Reasons to Choose You A Personal Brand Supercharges Your Work Model The Personal Brand Canvas How to Solve Personal Brand Canvas Problems Personal Brand Fitness Want More Credibility? Mine Your Memory How to Engage Your Audience FIrst, Craft a Digital Identity That Doesn’t Suck Coach Yourself Now! 5 Next Steps Chapter 8: The Three Commandments of Career Change Bedrock Principles for a Distracted World 1. Keep Outward Focus 2. Model 3. Ask the Three Questions Chapter 9: Ask Yourself the Three Questions Ask Yourself the Three Questions When Is It Time to Move Up? When Is It Time to Move Out? When Is It Time to Adapt Your Style? The Three Commandments and Think Out Loud Partners Challenge Yourself With These Questions: Chapter 10: Find Your Think Out Loud Partner Can You Hear You? Become a Thought Partner for a Less Experienced Person What Work Means Food for Thought The Final Word Resources Creator Bios Community and Other Resources Certifified Practitioner Training Citations Index EULA "The global pandemic threw hundreds of millions of people out of work, sparking career crises worldwide. The revised edition of the 100,000 selling Business Model You now adds powerful new material for the 40 million U.S. workers in healthcare, education, government, the military, and nonprofit/social enterprises who do not consider their professions as "businesses" and who are typically averse to business jargon. It uses the same logic as the Personal Business Model but with modified language, including the Service Model Canvas. Business Model You 2e will address dramatic workscape changes with new tools including the Three Career Questions, Your Professional Identity, "Your Key Roles & Relationships" How to Decide Whether to Work for Yourself, and Digital Tools for Everyone. Cases will be drawn from mainstream sectors such as healthcare, education, and government, avoiding "glamour" and outlier occupations covered in the first edition"-- Provided by publisher