Passion Probe 1. Passions List: Our passions are the things that consume us with palpable emotion over time. We love doing them and talk about them often. Review the list of passions below and note the ones that resonate most with you. (Required)1. Passions List Achieving Advising Advocating Analyzing Awakening Building Calming Caring / caregiving Challenges: overcoming Challenging Change: initiating Change: managing Clarifying Coaching Coalition-building Coding Collaborating Communicating Competing Composing Composure: maintaining Connecting Cooking Coordinating: people, projects Counseling Creating Crisis: managing Critiquing Culture: building Curating Dancing Deal-making / deal-closing Debating Deciding Defending people Designing Details: noticing Developing people Diagnosing Dialogue: fostering Diplomacy Discovering Distilling: getting to the essence _ Documenting Drawing Editing Efficiency Empathizing Empowering Encouraging Engaging people Engineering Entertaining Executing Experimenting Explaining Exploring Expressing Facilitating Fixing Focus Following Forecasting Getting things done Goal-setting Growing things Guiding Harmony: creating Healing Helping Hiring Humor Idea generation / brainstorming Imagining Implementing Improving things Including Influencing Initiating Innovating Inspiring Interpreting data Inventing Investigating Joy: bringing Launching _ Leading Learning Listening Loving Managing Marketing Maximizing Mediating Mentoring Mobilizing: people, resources Motivating Negotiating Noticing Number-crunching Nurturing Observing Opportunity: creating Opportunity: recognizing Optimizing Orchestrating Organizing Pattern recognition Peacemaking People: developing Perceiving Performing Perspective: seeing the big picture Persuading Pitching Planning Playing: music, sports, games, etc. Potential: eliciting Potential: seeing Presenting Problem-solving Process: designing Process: improving Projects: managing Promoting Protecting _ Prototyping Questioning Reading Recruiting Relating: forming close relationships Researching Restoring Sculpting Selling Serving Simplifying Skills: manual Skills: technical Songwriting Speaking Speaking up / truth-telling Starting things Storytelling Strategizing Supporting Synthesizing Teaching Team-building Thinking conceptually Thinking critically Time: managing Training Translating Trendspotting Troubleshooting Trust: developing Understanding Validating others Visioning Winning Wondering: e.g. about potential Writing Others (see below)... Other Passions: Review the passions you selected from the list above and think about whether you have any strong passions that are missing from the list. If you wish, consider these questions, answering quickly with your gut instinct and skipping the ones that don’t quickly bring something to mind: a. What lit me up when I was a child? b. What activities bring me joy? c. Which subjects interest me the most, continually drawing me in? d. What would I keep doing enthusiastically even if I didn’t get paid for it? e. What am I continually curious about or fascinated with? f. What things do I get excited about doing or discovering? g. What fills me up with energy and makes me come alive? h. What activities do I lose myself in, losing track of time? i. What problem(s) do I feel compelled to solve? j. What do I long to master? List any other strong passions here (not captured in the list above):Other Passions:2. Top Passions: Reviewing your answers to the questions above, list your top three to five passions— the things that consume you with palpable emotion over time. If you can, place them in order, or at least identify your top passion. (Required)2. Top Passions:(Required)3. Descriptions: Describe each of your top passions. Consider finishing the sentence, “I love it when I’m….,” and noting important details (e.g., what you’re doing and for whom and how, where, or when). (Required)3. Descriptions:(Required)4. Usage: To what extent are you using your top passions (at work, home, etc.)? Address each passion in turn and explain. (Required)4. Usage:(Required)5. Ideation: How could you use your top passions more? Brainstorm many ideas here without filtering. (Required)5. Ideation:(Required)6. Action: What specific actions will you take this week to start integrating your top passions more into your life and work? (Required)6. Action:(Required)Your Name(Required) First Last Your Email(Required) Share Results (optional)If you’d like to share your results with one or more people you know well, please enter a comma-separated list of their email(s). For example: name1@email.com, name2@email.com, name3@email.com By submitting this assessment you agree to receive monthly email newsletters from Gregg Vanourek. You can unsubscribe at any time.CommentsThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
