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Job Crafting Exercise


The Job Crafting Exercise is a self-development tool that helps you identify opportunities to make your job more engaging and fulfilling. To do this, the exercise encourages you to view your job in a new way - as a flexible set of building blocks rather than a fixed list of duties. With this perspective, you use colorful stickers to create a visual plan for redesigning your job to better fit your motives, strengths, and passions. You can use the exercise on your own, or administer it to others in workshops, one-on-one coaching, or classroom teaching

Preview the Job Crafting Exercise (824 KB PDF).

Purchase the Job Crafting Exercise (available in printed version only).

Teaching Note for Instructors - Please contact Janet Max at (734) 647-8154 or jmax@bus.umich.edu.

Have questions about the Job Crafting Exercise? Visit the FAQ

Download Using the Job Crafting Exercise to Craft Your Life as a Student (576 KB PDF) There is no cost.
- Supplementary instructions on using the exercise as a full-time student


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After you do the Job Crafting Exercise or administer it to others, please help us develop knowledge around this tool by filling out a brief online survey.


The Job Crafting Suite of Products
In addition to the Job Crafting Exercise, we offer:
Crafting a Fulfilling Job: Bringing Passion Into Work (teaching case)
Job Crafting at Burt's Bees (teaching case)
What is Job Crafting and Why Does It Matter? (theory-to-practice briefing)

Testimonials:

"A very short exercise that reveals a truckload of information and insight. It helped me believe that I’ll be able to start liking and enjoying my job."
-Project Manager

"I turned down a job offer this week because the exercise opened my eyes that the things I dislike about my current job are things that I can change - through job crafting - to where I'll enjoy my job again." -Administrative Assistant

"Enlightening . . . made me realize what I liked about my job and what I didn't in a clearer way than I thought possible."
-Benefits Analyst

"Forced me to look at my job in a different way – enabled me to see positive aspects I had not seen before. It's interesting to see what you come up with when you're asked questions you aren't usually asked."
-Account Executive

"The way it aligned my strengths, motives, and passions with my day-to-day tasks was a great learning exercise. It helped clarify some of these connections and how we can leverage our strengths to achieve our motives."
-Systems Development Engineer

"Matters for what I'll do tomorrow, not ten years and two jobs later."
-Marketing Analyst