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Finding Your Purpose at Work

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Finding Your Purpose at Work

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to apply the "sweet spot" framework to identify the activities where your passions, strengths, and potential impact converge.

  • How to use job crafting and purposeful conversations to reshape your current role into more fulfilling work.

  • How to break overwhelming career changes into one specific, doable next best step.

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May 2026

Assessments

6 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

By the end of this course, you'll be able to define your purpose, identify the unique sweet spot where your passions, strengths, and potential impact converge, and apply practical strategies to bring more meaning to your current role β€” without making a career change.

If you've ever clocked out feeling drained instead of fulfilled, you're not alone. Research shows the vast majority of workers feel disengaged from their jobs. This course flips that script. With expert-led lessons, reflection exercises, and a research-backed framework, you'll learn how to redesign your day-to-day work so it aligns with what makes you come alive. What sets this course apart is its focus on action over theory. You'll move past the abstract idea of purpose and into practical job-crafting techniques used by some of the most fulfilled workers in any industry. You'll practice tough conversations with managers, build a purposeful job search filter, and identify the small daily shifts that make the biggest difference. Whether you stay where you are or move on to something new, you'll leave with the tools to make work feel less like an obligation and more like your own.

If you've ever clocked in and out without feeling a spark of meaning, you're not alone β€” and that disconnect has real costs to your engagement, growth, and well-being. In this module, you'll gain a clear-eyed definition of purpose, the research behind why it matters, and the tools to spot what's standing in your way so you can take the first step toward more fulfilling work.

What's included

4 videos1 assignment

4 videosβ€’Total 12 minutes
  • Introductionβ€’2 minutes
  • Purpose, Demystified β€’4 minutes
  • Purpose By Numbersβ€’3 minutes
  • Common Purpose Blockersβ€’3 minutes
1 assignmentβ€’Total 10 minutes
  • Decoding Your Whyβ€’10 minutes

Your purpose isn't hiding far away β€” it lives at the intersection of what you love, what you're great at, and how you can contribute. In this module, you'll apply the Sweet Spot framework, identify the activities that bring you to life, and use job crafting to reshape your current role so more of your day lives in that sweet spot.

What's included

7 videos2 readings1 assignment

7 videosβ€’Total 26 minutes
  • The Sweet Spot Framework β€’3 minutes
  • Recognizing Passionsβ€’3 minutes
  • Leveraging Strengthsβ€’4 minutes
  • Potential for Impactβ€’5 minutes
  • Understanding Job Craftingβ€’3 minutes
  • Craft a Purposeful Jobβ€’3 minutes
  • Purposeful Time Managementβ€’4 minutes
2 readingsβ€’Total 20 minutes
  • The Science of the Sweet Spotβ€’10 minutes
  • The Custodians Who Rewrote Their Jobsβ€’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ€’Total 10 minutes
  • Hitting Your Sweet Spotβ€’10 minutes

You've done the inner work β€” now comes the part where insight turns into action through harder conversations, sharper decisions, and moving past overwhelm. In this module, you'll gain strategies to navigate tough conversations, evaluate new opportunities for purpose fit, and identify the single next best step that keeps your momentum going.

What's included

3 videos2 assignments

3 videosβ€’Total 11 minutes
  • Navigating Hard Conversationsβ€’4 minutes
  • Purposeful Job Searchβ€’4 minutes
  • The Next Best Stepβ€’4 minutes
2 assignmentsβ€’Total 25 minutes
  • Your One Thing This Weekβ€’15 minutes
  • From Insight to Actionβ€’10 minutes

The way your work feels day to day is shaped more by small, intentional habits than by dramatic life changes. In this module, you'll build practices around gratitude, play, environment, and mindset so you can sustain energy, creativity, and resilience as you live out your purpose.

What's included

5 videos2 assignments

5 videosβ€’Total 16 minutes
  • The Gift of Gratitudeβ€’3 minutes
  • The Power of Playβ€’3 minutes
  • Declutter Your Spaceβ€’4 minutes
  • Reframe Your Perspectiveβ€’4 minutes
  • Conclusionβ€’2 minutes
2 assignmentsβ€’Total 45 minutes
  • Three Things This Morningβ€’15 minutes
  • Working On Purpose: Final Checkβ€’30 minutes

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