MKTG 345 Week 11 What Color Is Your Parachute Chapter 8 Flower Exercise

The 8th chapter in What Color Is Your Parachute is about the flower self inventory exercise. This exercise looks at the 7 sides of self. These include People, Workplace, Skills, Purpose, Knowledge, Salary and Geography. When looking into the pedal people it examine who your work best with. Workplace looks at what kind of workplace makes you the most happy and productive. Skills evaluates your ability to work in this field of employment. Another pedal is purpose. This is your mission statement of yourself. Knowledge is the fifth pedal and it describes your past experiences and thoughts. The 6th pedal is about salary. this is knowing what you need to earn or want to earn at whatever job you find. The last pedal is geography. This is simply where do you want to be? What location do you feel makes you the happiest and most productive. This is the basics of the flower inventory process.