Career coaching

Do you want a better job - or a better career?

There are times in most people's careers where they need to review where they are going and what it is all for. Most people are faced with several times in their lives when they have a career choice to make. The challenge is whether to make a career and life limiting decision or a career and life enhancing one?

Ask yourself:

• Do you have a job or a career?
• Do you currently like your job?
• Is your job working for you?
• Are you not working?
• Do you feel stuck, in a career plateau or a bottleneck?
• Are you lacking opportunities for advancement?

Maybe you need to think about what you are doing with your career right now. Is it going the way you want or is it time to do something about it? Because the consequences may be increasing frustration and dissatisfaction - or maybe an acceptance of what is second best. Or maybe a whole new approach to your life, what it means for you, what you want to achieve, and the style of life you want to create.

Why have career coaching?

You may choose coaching for a whole variety of reasons. Here are some:

• You have reached a turning point in your career and feel unsure which way to go next
• Life-changing events, outside work, have caused you to think hard about what is important and what you really want - or made the existing or previous work no longer possible 
• Issues that have arisen in your role and you need to decide what to do next
• Organisational change has affected you and your role
• Personal change
• A need to take time out to review where you are going
• Lack of career progression: you are perhaps beginning to feel stuck 
• A need to move away from what you have been doing
• Feeling stale
• Seeking meaning and purpose in your work
• Simply want a better life than what you've got

A career coaching programme

We'd start by reviewing what is happening at the moment, where you feel stuck and what you want from your career. Much of the key work is likely to be in helping you decide what your career vision is, what you want to achieve - many of us don't really know that. Then we'd put in place an action plan to help you achieve the goal. So we'd very likely cover such things as:

• Managing change
• Effective career management
• Self-awareness
• The changing needs of organisations in the market place 
• Career vision
• Profile management
• Action planning

But we don't stop there. Good coaching will give you support in rolling out your plans, in developing a strategy, in taking the steps to realise your goals. This might include discovering the key tools that will help you, any training and development, overcoming any obstacles - in fact developing a whole new approach towards your career.

Contact us for a free introductory session