Clarify ownership and direction
Describe what you want to pursue, why it matters to you and what achieving it would look like.
Personal growth
Put Your Dream to the Test
Examine whether your dream is clear, owned by you and supported by a workable path.
By John C. Maxwell
What this programme helps you work on.
An aspiration can feel compelling without being clear enough to act on. Put Your Dream to the Test examines the questions behind a meaningful goal: whether it is yours, whether it is realistic and whether you are prepared for the path. Participants use the discussion to strengthen a plan rather than simply restate an ambition.
Who it suits
People turning an aspiration into a practical plan.
The focus
Clarity, reality, people, cost, tenacity and significance.
Inside the programme
What you’ll explore.
These themes guide the learning. The depth and selection depend on the format and the needs you bring.
Examine reality and the pathway
Consider your present resources, capabilities and constraints, then identify the steps that need further testing.
Account for people and cost
Look at the help you need and the commitments or trade-offs the goal may require.
Sustain meaningful effort
Explore tenacity, fulfilment and significance so progress can be reviewed against more than enthusiasm alone.
From ideas to action
Put it into practice.
Identify the weakest part of your plan and choose a step to test it.
An example to work through
Take a business or personal aspiration and write a concrete description of it. Identify the least convincing part of the current plan, then choose one conversation or small test that would give you better evidence.
This is an example of local application. We adapt the discussion to your situation and agreed scope.
Your practical takeaways
What you’ll work towards.
- A clearer description of an aspiration you own.
- A gap or assumption in the current plan.
- A practical step to test the pathway before a larger commitment.
The learning experience
How it works.
Facilitated learning combines explanation, discussion and reflection on participants’ own situations. Where the agreed format allows, you practise an application and decide what to try at work. Scope, duration and any follow-up are agreed around the group’s needs.