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    Every Person's Path to Purpose: Everyone's Work Manifesto
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    Every Person's Path to Purpose: Everyone's Work Manifesto

    By Duncan Bolam

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    With 90% of workers in the wrong job as they quest for self-expression and meaning, and so many others fighting for survival in the lengthening queues of the unemployed, this extraordinary blueprint sets out the way you can sustain your career over the long haul and maybe starts to answer the age-old question: "Why am I here and what am I to do with my life?"

    This maverick author survived 35 jobs in the first 32 years of his life only to unleash his potential by tapping into the power of his true vocation. His discoveries led to a fantastic transformation in his own life and, through passing on the lessons he has learnt through 15 years as a Career Coach and Redundancy Counsellor, he now aims to pass on proven techniques, new innovations and ideas to ensure societies, economies and the holistic wellbeing of the individual reader benefit from the advantage of vocationally generated energy. Or as Duncan has come to know it - 'Vojo'!

    The book sets out how discovering your inner Work Aesthete will sustain your work-life balance and infect those around you with an honest hunger to do well in the workplace and contribute their heartfelt enthusiasm to their community in order that everyone grows harmoniously.

    Amid a range of thought-provoking chapters, exercises and insights, Every Person’s Path to Purpose sets out a compelling engineering plan which - if utilised by individuals, organisations and governments - dynamically pieces-together career attributes into purpose driven strategies, constructs systems and engines designed to help get more people into great work, navigate the increasingly complex minefield of the 21st Century labour market, make the world a better place... and maybe even achieve world peace in the process!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDuncan Bolam
    Release dateJun 26, 2013
    ISBN9781301084272
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    Every Person's Path to Purpose: Everyone's Work Manifesto
    Author

    Duncan Bolam

    With infectious enthusiasm, joie de vivre, life-long curiosity and a quest for knowledge borne-out of a mission to comprehend his own life's course, overcoming significant setbacks along his own journey towards 'epiphany'; 2021 sees Duncan's twenty-forth year making his livelihood as an Executive, Career & 'Purpose' Coach.He operates in the domains of Leadership, Career Development, Motivation, Sports, Performance Improvement and Customer Care. Duncan has devoted his life to the field of 'Work Aesthetics'; which he crafted with the intention of enabling more people to contribute good to society by generating positive energy through authentic vocation; achieving a "delight-filled fusion of fabric, function, form and flow".Alongside his private coaching practice based in Nairn in The Highlands of Scotland and London in the South of England, Duncan also consults to organisations on Employee Engagement, Talent Management and People Strategy across all professional disciplines, levels of experience and industrial sectors. With his specialist fields being 'digital, technology and telecoms' start-ups where his focus is on generating value by aligning talent with the critical mission and goals defined by an organisation's Business Plan.With an innate gift for extrapolating social trends, personal development ideals and labour market intelligence towards accurately forecasting the future of work, it has been said his ideas on the labour markets, motivation, career management and purpose are “visionary”. His innovative, results-orientated, pioneering and evangelical spirit sees him pushing barriers in his daily work and many sporting pursuits; especially long-distance swimming, golf, mindfulness and triathlon.Throughout this 24 years, he has been helping individuals and organisations decode their occupational DNA; in order to maximise their potential and, ultimately, experience greater happiness and fulfilment in how they contribute to the knit of their communities, through their livelihoods, earning their their living - holistically and sustainably.In the past he has coached golf, basketball, rugby, tennis, fitness and swimming and uses his proven coaching techniques to complement his delivery as coach and consultant. Duncan also has the unique - some might say controversial - distinction of having had 35 jobs in the first 32 years of his life. So he knows what it is like to navigate the minefield of 'not knowing' what to do! Perhaps more by process of elimination, there is one thing for sure. Duncan discovered his calling and leverages his insights positively!At school his English Language teacher proclaimed to his class that one day Duncan would be a Writer. And this is the ultimate destiny Duncan has strived towards ever since. In his writing he draws upon his many joyful and painful anecdotes to help contextualise his message that life can be about perseverance, passion and purpose and that, in spite of what we sometimes might think, the universe remains a deeply loving, altruistic, benevolent force for good.'Everything' in Duncan’s life hinges around the aesthetics of movement, craft, devotion and work. He loves the efficiency derived by the mastery of technique and nurtures this beauty in work and play. He has come to realise that purposeful, passionate, proactive and persevering people are innately charismatic and energy-giving in a challenged world where 90% of people are in the wrong job or not engaged by their work at all. Right now everything he does is about getting more people into their ‘right work’ and spreading his ideas through print, coaching and workshops.An 'ideas factory', his evangelical style has led him to design ‘employability’ TV programmes for the BBC (‘Up for Hire’), contribute to the design of the National Careers Service Advisory Panel for the UK Government’s Dept for Business Innovation & Skill & Dept for Education and dynamic career development programmes for world-leading organisations like Vodafone and Haringey Action Group on Alcohol.

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