Career Goal Action Map

Your client is technically satisfied. They have a title they worked for, compensation that reflects their level, and a manager who is not a problem. When you ask what is not working, they need time to answer. The answer, when it comes, is a list of specific things: they resent being in meetings that produce nothing. They resent that their work is reviewed by someone less technical than them. They resent that they stopped doing the hands-on work they were best at three years ago. None of these are crisis-level. All of them are consistent. The Start/Stop/Continue format is the right tool because it produces a structured picture of what the client would actually change, as distinct from what they are resigned to.

Frame this as making the implicit explicit. 'You've named a few things that aren't working. The worksheet maps those aga...