HHS Office of Life Planning and Personal Development
Life Planning and Development
Goal Setting
- Beyond Traditional SMART Goals - http://humanresources.about.com/cs/performancemanage/a/goalsetting.htm
- Achieve Your Dreams: Six Steps to Accomplish Your Goals and Resolutions - http://humanresources.about.com/od/strategicplanning1/a/goal_setting.htm
- The Awesome Power of Goal Setting—Ten Tips for Triumph - http://humanresources.about.com/od/performancemanagement/a/goal_setting.htm
- The Darker Side of Goal Setting: Why Goal Setting Fails ... - http://humanresources.about.com/cs/strategichr/a/aadark_goals.htm
- The Top Ten Resolutions for Your Possible New Year - http://humanresources.about.com/od/motivationsucces3/a/new_resolutions.htm
- Goal Setting: Strategies for a Balanced Life - http://www.adv-leadership-grp.com/articles/goalsetting.htm
- How to Figure Out What You Really Want - http://www.timethoughts.com/goalsetting/HowToFindOutWhatYouWant.htm
Personality Assessments
Tests
- Similaminds.com (short test – 53 questions) - http://similarminds.com/jung.html
- Similaminds.com (long test – 70 questions) - http://similarminds.com/jung_word.html
- Similarminds.com (longer test – 102 questions)- http://similarminds.com/embj.html
- Similarminds.com (paired word test) - http://similarminds.com/jung_word_pair.html
- Humanmetrics (Jung - Myers-Briggs Typology) –
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp - HaleOnline Personlaity Test - http://haleonline.com/psychtest/
- AdvisorTeam, Inc. - http://www.advisorteam.org/
- Type Focus - http://typefocus.com/index.html
- Platinum Rule - http://www.platinumrule.com/free-assessment.asp
Evaluations
- The Four Preferences - http://www.personalitypage.com/four-prefs.html
- The Four Preferences - http://www.gesher.org/Myers-Briggs/Comparison_Charts.html
- The Sixteen Personality Types - http://www.personalitypage.com/portraits.html
- Typelogic - http://www.typelogic.com/
- Common Careers for Personality Types - http://www.personalitypage.com/careers.html
- Myers-Briggs: A Complete Guide - http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/mb-simpl.htm
- Introduction to Myers-Briggs Personality Type and the MBTI (Personality Pathways) - http://www.personalitypathways.com/MBTI_intro.html
- Personality and Relationships - http://www.personalitypage.com/relationships.html
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - http://www.e-mbti.com/
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Information (from Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopedia) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs
Values Assessments
- Work-Related Values Assessments - http://careerplanning.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.nwc.edu/career/planning/phase1/workvalues.htm
- Work Values Assessment - http://www.myplan.com/assess/values.php?sid=7ffa33b9aa7132c484db8917dcabe3b9
- Workplace Values Assessment - http://www.quintcareers.com/workplace_values.html
- Work Values-Intangible Work Rewards - http://www.lifeworktransitions.com/exercises/part3ch3/workvalues.html
- Sample Values List - http://www.timethoughts.com/goalsetting/ListOfSampleValues.htm
- Workplace Values Assessment: Do You Know the Work Values You Most Want in a Job and an Employer – and Does Your Current Employment Reflect Those Values? - http://www.quintcareers.com/workplace_values.html
- Clarifying and Applying Personal Values: Priorities and Integrity - http://www.wright.edu/~scott.williams/skills/values.htm#Why%20Values%20Matter
- Personal and Work Values - http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/advisement/interest.html#work
- Values Assessment - http://career.asu.edu/S/careerplan/selfdiscovery/ValuesAssessment.htm
- Four Steps to Identifying and Implementing Your Core Values - http://www.make-it-fly.com/articles/core_values.pdf#search='identifying%20personal%20values'
- Values Inventory for Career Exploration - http://www.usd.edu/~wstubbs/values%20inventory%20for%20career%20exploration.doc
- Choosing a Major/Career: Values - http://www.pearsoncustom.com/link/values.html
- Work Values - http://www.du.edu/career/handouts/Values.pdf#search='identifying%20personal%20values'
Personal Mission Statement/Purpose in Life
- Mission Statement Builder (Franklin Covey) - http://www.franklincovey.com/fc/library_and_resources/mission_statement_builder
- Using Your Personal Mission Statement to Chart Your Career Course - http://www.quintcareers.com/mission_statements.html
- Are You Living on Purpose? Personal Statement Exercise - http://www.quintcareers.com/mission_statement_exercises.html
- More Exercises to help You Develop Your Mission Statement - http://www.quintcareers.com/mission_statement_development.html
- The Five Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements - http://www.quintcareers.com/creating_personal_mission_statements.html
- Sample Job-Seeker Personal Mission Statement - http://www.quintcareers.com/mission_statement_samples.html
- Personal Mission Statement - http://www.nightingale.com/tMission_PersonalStatement.asp
- Writing a Personal Mission Statement - http://www.timethoughts.com/goalsetting/mission-statements.htm
- Sample Mission and Vision Statements - http://www.timethoughts.com/goalsetting/SampleMissionVisionStatements.htm
- Writing a Compelling Vision Statement - http://www.timethoughts.com/goalsetting/vision-statements.htm
- Personal Mission Statement (Leadership Development Institute) - http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Leadership/mission.htm
- Writing Your Personal Vision/Mission Statement - http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Peterkin3.html
- Personal Mission Statement Exercise (DecisionBooks) - http://www.decisionbooks.com/pdf/missionstatement.pdf#search='personal%20mission%20statement'
- Personal Mission Statement Worksheet - http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/artshum/materials/spch/Nudelman/200missstateWRKSHTspr03.asp
- Creating a Personal Mission Statement:
- Getting Started - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art34593.asp
- Goals, Values, and Priorities - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art34905.asp
- What is Your Personal Mission Statement:
Other Resources
- Optimal Thinking Questions - http://www.optimalthinking.com/Questions.shtml