Curve Benders Quiz -Your Personal Market Value

How Strategic Relationships Can Power Your Non-Linear Growth in The Future of Work

Three critical components to your Personal Market Value:

Foundational Rings: Core, Personal, Professional
Value Accelerants: Financial, Relational, Brand
Growth Enablers: Resilience, Relevance, S-Curve

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1. Foundational Rings: Core, Personal, Professional
2. Value Accelerants: Financial, Relational, Brand
3. Growth Enablers: Resilience, Relevance, S-Curve
4. REFLECTION IN YOUR JOURNEY FROM NOW TO NEXT

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1) How would you describe your current ecosystem of family and personal friends?

2) What ONE thing can you do to improve, stabilize, or otherwise elevate your relationship with your significant other, children, siblings?

3) How about your few, authentic friendships? Do you have real, close friends whom you don't feel like you have to impress, can openly share your struggles, challenges, and opportunities? Why or why not?

4) Do you feel loved, supported, and eager to learn and grow? Do you consistently demonstrate gratitude toward those who bolster your reach for greater heights? Why or why not?

5) How would you describe your adult learning preference? How consistently would you say you invest in your learning and growth and what have you found to be the biggest ROI?

6) How would you describe your faith, and what does spiritual grounding mean to you?

7) What are some of your unshakable values? What are those non-negotiable principles by which you live your life? And who's holding you accountable?

8) Do you have a set of guardrails to guide your direction and destination? If yes, where did they come from? If no, where could you embrace a few from?

9) How would you describe your professional acumen (blending of knowledge and skill, guided by experience)?

10) Of the several examples shared on page 36 of the Curve Benders book:

11) How would others describe your professional presence? How do you know?

12) How do you feel about your willingness to experience discomfort, risk, uncertainty in doing difficult things?

13) What would you describe as the financial highlight of your career thus far?

14) What have been your compensation lows and highs in your professional roles (think of post-college graduation) thus far? What quantifiable outcomes can you directly correlate with your highest compensation level?

15) Have you ever been responsible for a P&L? If so, what were the highlights for you? If not, what has to happen for you to reach that level of authority/accountability?

16) Have you ever raise capital, been involved with debt refinancing, an exit event (IPO, SPAC, or a strategic sale), or the financial aspects of a merger, an acquisition, or a divestiture of an organization or any of its components?

17) How would you describe the breadth, depth, and relevancy of your professional relationships today?

18) Do you have a written/captured/well-defined list of your top 10-20-30 business relationships you can reach to ask a question, run an idea by them for their suggestions, or talk you off a (proverbial) career cliff?

19) What one thing can you do to dramatically enhance, elevate, or otherwise level up the quality, diversity, and impact of business relationships in your life and career?

20) What three attributes do you want your personal/professional brand to be associated with?

21) If I were to ask a dozen people who know you randomly, would they use the same brand attributes? How do you know?

22) What are some examples of how you're living your brand promise every day to turn those attributes into brand equity in how you're perceived, received, and applied toward organizational challenges or opportunities?

23) What one brand attribute would you most like to enhance, elevate, or otherwise eliminate in your path forward?

24) What are the top three (3) most compelling trends in your industry, that will have a material impact on your personal and professional success? How do you know and what can you do about it now?

25) Which of the 15 Forces excite you most as a possible tailwind in accelerating your personal and professional growth journey? Which one concerns you the most as a potential headwind?

26) How consistently do you believe you anticipate impending events, plan and guide yourself, your team, or your organization to get through them as efficiently as possible?

27) If you get a chance, take our Crisis Resilience Quotient Assessment and capture the questions that resonated with you most below?

28) What do you believe is most helpful in your ability to remain relevant in how you collaborate with others, create outcomes in your function, and deliver quantifiable value to your organization?

29) What have you found to be particularly useful in your efforts to create time, space, and actionable insights from reflection? How do you make time for it, given your hectic work-life demands?

30) How has the definition of success evolved in your professional journey? Life outside of work?

31) Can you share one example of adaptive or accelerated learning that had an immediate impact on your role?

32) What do you believe is the most difficult/challenging aspect of the personal S-Curve idea?

33) Do you believe you've gone through a complete personal S-curve reinvention? What went well for you? Where did you struggle the most?

34) Which stage, as I outlined in the Nour Forum article, are you in today? What makes you think so?

35) How do you believe you can more proactively identify your plateau stages and plan on the next personal S-curve to begin investing in before you flatline?

36) We've been thinking a lot about where you are today. Extrapolate your role/realm of responsibilities forward. What are you doing differently in the next 5-10 years? Be specific yet brief.

37) What capabilities do you believe you'll need most to perform, execute, deliver (and show up consistently) at your best in the future version of you?

38) Who are 3-5-10 most critical and relevant relationships in your journey from now to next? How do you know, and why do you believe they're the most important relationship investments you can make?

39) What has to happen for you to create an intentional roadmap in your personal market value growth in your journey from now to next?

Curve Benders Quiz -Your Personal Market Value

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Foundational Rings: Core, Personal, Professional

Value Accelerants: Financial, Relational, Brand

Growth Enablers: Resilience, Relevance, S-Curve

REFLECTION IN YOUR JOURNEY FROM NOW TO NEXT