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Brainstorming Exercises
What are the tasks you excel at and genuinely enjoy? Could these strengths be applied to a new challenge or career path?
Let’s explore how you can identify and focus on the activities that energize you most.
Idea 1: About Your Existing Job!
It's possible that your existing job involves more activities than might first meet the eye. These may give you scope, to apply yourself in different ways, to different jobs or industries.
Every job has a purpose and a set of outcomes. To achieve these, you perform a series of tasks or stages, undertaken in a sequential order. Think about these in a horizontal context.
Try listing the main steps involved in your current role—just the headline activities.
Idea 2: Now Think About It Differently
If you're in a complex or specialist role, each step you take in your work is likely part of a much larger system. Every task you perform is connected to other: Activities, People, Job roles, Data sources or Decisions​. These connections are often specific to the step you're working on.
So, ask yourself: What are the surrounding elements that support or depend on this step?
For example: Who provides the input for this task? What data or tools do you rely on? Who uses the output of your work? What decisions are made based on what you produce? Are there upstream or downstream processes that influence or are influenced by your work?
By mapping these connections, you can uncover:
New areas of interest. Potential career paths
Opportunities to specialize or collaborate differently
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Idea 3: Past Experiences, Future Dreams
When you reflect on your past, are there any particular skills, accomplishments or qualifications that you may be able to leverage. Similarly as you look ahead, do you have ideas as to how you may wish to develop your career, new challenges that you'd like to take up or experience, are there things or job types that you've dreamed of doing.
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How Did You Get Along?
The brainstorming exercises we’ve shared with you are designed to spark new pathways and deliver practical results as you rethink your career. If you’ve mapped your current activities, identified transferable skills, and connected with others about their work, you’ve already taken meaningful steps toward unlocking new opportunities and defining a path that excites you.
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Remember, quick wins can be valuable, but the most meaningful changes may require time and perseverance. Stay open to the process—even if clarity takes a little longer, every step forward counts.
