Shape
My next move
See your next step before you take it.
A personal choice is ahead of you. Perhaps not today, but close enough not to start thinking about it only when you have to answer. Shape helps you make visible in advance what matters to you, which direction fits that, and what you want to judge your next step by.
Who it's for
Experienced professionals and leaders facing a next step who don't want that choice to be determined only by what is logical, familiar or first available.
When
Before you have to respond to a new role, reorganisation, departure, offer or other change that calls for a personal choice.
What you build
A personal decision framework in images: what matters to you, which direction fits, which steps you take and how you tell that story.
Know what you want to choose on before you have to choose.
The moment a real choice is on the table, time pressure arrives by itself. A new role, a reorganisation, an offer, or the idea of starting something of your own. If you still have to discover what genuinely matters to you at that point, the option that feels most logical or available easily takes over. Shape turns that around. You make your own criteria visible before you need them.
This is you if:
Your role is changing
you want to determine which work and which responsibility you want more, or less, of
Your organisation is changing
a reorganisation, merger or other move forces you to look at your own place again
There's an opportunity on the table
a new position or offer sounds attractive, but you want to know whether it genuinely fits you
You're considering something of your own
you want to explore whether working for yourself fits your direction before you take the leap
Without your own criteria you keep comparing options or responding to whatever presents itself. Shape makes visible what weighs heavily for you, so you can test an opportunity against your direction instead of the other way around.
This is what you notice first:
- “You get in the car on Monday morning and you're not sure you're heading the right way.”
- “You clicked through, and only afterwards wondered why.”
- “Someone asks what you want and you hear yourself say something that isn't true.”
- “You said no three times before you knew why.”
- 73%
- say their search for a meaningful life influences their choices and actions.
- 46%
- Only share with others what they believe makes life meaningful.
What matters in a next move therefore often remains unspoken. Picture First helps make it visible before you choose.
The method
Look first. Then make sense of it. Then decide.
One day, or four half-days. One to one.
You work at an inspiring location, inside and/or outside, with a camera and on paper. What you photograph shows what you value, more sharply than words can. Your photographs are on the table during the same session.
1
Looking back
What you've built, and what keeps recurring in it.
2
Looking ahead
What it looks like when it's right.
3
Deciding
What you start, stop and keep. With a date on it.
4
Telling it
The story behind it: what you say when someone asks why.
5
Putting it into practice
Does your choice hold up in practice? What will you set in motion first?
The method was developed and tested inside a large international organisation. I've run more than eighty sessions with it, for fifteen hundred people. I now do it one to one.
WHAT YOU TAKE WITH YOU
The main result is your own decision framework for a next step: made visible in images, translated into a direction and tied to concrete action.
Tangible
Your visual anchor
Your own values and selected images, printed, with what each image means to you. A reference point to return to when another choice comes up.
Your next steps
What you start, stop and keep doing. Concrete and tied to a date, so something actually changes on Monday.
What you also take with you
A way to explore future choices and tell your direction clearly to a manager, your network or a future employer.
Includes prints, materials and a short guide. After six weeks, we look back at what has actually changed.
No coaching report that disappears into a drawer. A visual anchor, a next move and skills you can use again.
When do you use this
You go home with two things: a set of images that shows what you already put to use and what still gets too little room, and the ability to talk about it clearly. Sometimes you put those images on the table. More often you just need them to know what to say.
With new people.
In an interview, or your first weeks in a team. You don't lay prints on the table, but you know which image belongs to it. So you tell them not what your CV says, but what it doesn't.
In a new role.
When you take on a role, or want to reshape the one you have. You know which part of your set you're not using yet, and that's what you aim the conversation with your manager at.
At a decision you're unsure about.
There's a choice on the table and you don't know if it's yours. You put your set beside it and you see whether it fits what's already there, or the gap you wanted to fill.
The set doesn't just show what you have. It shows where you're heading, and that's what you can act on this week.
Pick the one that fits where you are.
Not a coaching programme, and not a report.
With coaching, the conversation is usually central. With Shape you work through a fixed visual method towards concrete results: a personal set of images, choices with actions and dates, and a story you can use in conversations with your manager, your network or a future employer.
Concentrated · accelerate
Shape: One day of clarity
Choose this if you want to speed up the search for your next move in one intensive day.
€1,815
Private purchase – including 21% VAT
€1,500
Company or employer – excluding VAT
Duration
one day
Format
one to one
Included
an opening conversation · Telling, in short form · a follow-up six weeks on
You take home
your printed set of images · your plan · a guide to using them
Not rushed, but concentrated: one day with several meaningful moments and interactions, from morning to afternoon.
Space in between · build gradually
Shape: The full picture
Choose this if you deliberately want more room to build your next move, with time between sessions for reflection, experiments and conversations.
€3,025
Private purchase – including 21% VAT
€2,500
Company or employer – excluding VAT
Duration
four half-days
Format
one to one
Included
an opening conversation · Telling as a full session · a follow-up six weeks on
You take home
your printed set of images · your plan · a guide to using them
The time between sessions is part of the work. You notice things, you take new photographs, opportunities turn up. An image that mattered in week one can mean something else three weeks later.
You can book Shape privately or discuss funding with your employer. The programme itself remains the same.
About me
Let's see whether it fits.
Bring the real situation. Thirty minutes is enough to work out whether Shape adds anything.
30 minutes · nothing to prepare·harm.hendriks@doorsicht.nl