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Motivation and Goal Setting Workshop

This document provides information on motivation and goal setting. It discusses different types of motivation, why motivation is important, and strategies for setting goals and maintaining motivation. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are defined. The importance of visualizing long-term goals and setting SMART short-term goals is explained. Various tactics for staying motivated during a job search are presented, such as networking, learning new skills, volunteering, and focusing on accomplishments. The document provides worksheets and prompts to help readers clarify goals and track progress.

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Motivation and Goal Setting Workshop

This document provides information on motivation and goal setting. It discusses different types of motivation, why motivation is important, and strategies for setting goals and maintaining motivation. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are defined. The importance of visualizing long-term goals and setting SMART short-term goals is explained. Various tactics for staying motivated during a job search are presented, such as networking, learning new skills, volunteering, and focusing on accomplishments. The document provides worksheets and prompts to help readers clarify goals and track progress.

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Motivation & Goal Setting

Agenda
Introduction

Explore the different types of motivation

Why motivation is so important

Setting realistic goals/targets

Strategies for keeping motivation up

Conclusion

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On a Scale of 1-10, where is your motivation currently at?

What do you think is stopping it from being a 10?

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Motivation Types
There are two different types of motivation:

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Personal Motivation

Do you feel like your motivations are intrinsic (internal)?

Do you think your motivations are extrinsic? (extrinsic)?

Or a mix of both?

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Clarify your Long Term Goal

● Taking a moment to stop and


visualise your long term goal is
extremely important

● Imagine you’re starting to climb a


mountain and it’s really hard work

● Now imagine it’s extremely foggy and


cloudy, you don’t even know where the
peak is, what it looks like or even if you
can see the views from the top

Would you still feel like continuing to climb?

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Clarify your Long Term Goal

Being able to stop and clearly visualise:

1. What your goal is


2. What your life might look like when
you achieve it
3. How you will feel

can help you to stay motivated and plan


your next steps accurately

Activity: Take a moment and think about


your long term goal, why you want to
achieve it and if your motivations are
intrinsic or extrinsic: fill in part 1 on
this worksheet.

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Take a moment, Visualise where you want to be

● Visualise your dream job - your desired job role, industry, salary,
location etc.

● Picturing yourself in your ideal situation, while also visualising


the end-result, can help you remind yourself why you’re
dedicating time to the job search and identify actionable goals to
get to your ideal position.

Creating a ‘vision board’ can help with this- see worksheet for inspiration

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Set Yourself Realistic Targets

● Set realistic goals for yourself i.e. instead of setting out to apply to 20 jobs
in one day, go for quality rather than quantity
● Starting with small but effective actions such as cleaning up your LinkedIn
profile, following target businesses and connecting with the right people in
your industry will help expose you to your opportunities of interest
● Avoid setting unrealistic targets, this will only leave you dissatisfied when
you cannot reach them

Before setting yourself a target, ask yourself:

1. Is this target realistic, is it too high or too low?


2. In reality, based on where I am now, can this target be met?

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SMART Goals

Indeed Guide- Extra information

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SMART
Long Term Goal- Secure Employment in _____type of role- fully paid

Short Term Goal/targets- is it SMART?

Within the next week, I will fully complete and submit 25 job applications, with Friday at 6pm being my deadline. To
achieve this, I will submit 5 applications per day Mon-Friday, between 9-ll am

Specific?- Yes, fully completed job applications

Measureable- Yes, counting number of applications submitted

Achievable- Yes, I can complete this between 9-11am every morning

Relevant?- Yes, this will increase my chances of getting a job

Time Bound?- Yes, I will complete this each week, with Friday 5pm being by deadline
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How Can I Stay Motivated and On Track?

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Networking

Graduate Hub Job Applications

Self- Care Linkedin Learning


Focus on
what’s in
Learning New Skills YOUR Technical Development
CONTROL

Volunteering Seeking Support

Personal Projects

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Make a Checklist

● Collect easy wins

● When we check items off our to-do lists,


feel-good hormones are released in our brains.

● This makes us feel accomplished, which makes the task more


interesting and rewarding, which in turn, makes us more
motivated to do it

● If you adopt this habit, you’ll do more than increase your intrinsic
motivation to complete easy tasks.

● You’ll also begin to establish and even perceive yourself as a


responsive and helpful professional, while avoiding a backlog of
work

https://hbr.org/2023/03/understand-the-power-of-intrinsic-motivation

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Count Your Wins So Far!

What Actions have you already taken to What were the RESULTS of your actions so far?
achieve your goal?

● Completed 5 LinkedIn Learning Courses ● Developed knowledge in….. areas

● Improved my application skills with better communication/ speed


● Applied to 20 jobs since graduating
etc.

● Explored how others with developed careers got to their position,


● Made 10 new connections on LinkedIn got ideas for further development and jobs to apply to. Made a new
contact and now talking

● Helped to build up confidence through practice, learnt about the


● Completed an interview types of questions that might come up again, received some
valuable feedback. Now have an idea on what to work on.

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Tace Your Career Timeline, Where Are you?

I have achieved… I want to achieve…


Starting
Point- End
Motivation Generation Next Steps
Goal
for Career ?
began
when….

1. When is the first time you noticed


your motivation for it?
2. What were you doing?
3. What aspects of this type of role
motivated you?

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Look for Inspiration

● "Opportunities don't happen, you create them."—Chris Grosser

● "If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."—Seth Godin

● "No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents,
skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take
notice."—Rob Liano

● "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't
turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through
it, or work around it."—Michael Jordan

See Indeed Link for more inspirational quotes

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Feedback

➔ We need your feedback to ensure that we are


providing sessions that are adding value to you and
helping you to develop your employability skills
➔ Take the survey below to give your feedback - 1
minute max
➔ https://forms.gle/48m7rbFbqtEF7MZNA

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