Career and Transition Coaching – to figure out what’s next and how to get there

Ikigai – a Japanese concept meaning your “reason for being”; your purpose. Discovery of your ikigai is important for bringing satisfaction and meaning to life.

We spend a large percentage of our lives at work and if that work is going to be fulfilling, it needs to be something we enjoy, which we’re good at and where we can make an impact. 

Yet, how many of us really plan our careers?  How much time do we invest working out what we really want to do?  Often, we drift into roles, whether it was following in our parents’ footsteps, accepting new roles offered to us by our employer, or simply staying in our current role for too long.  No wonder so many people feel disengaged at work (a 2018 Gallup survey found 87% of employees are not engaged).

Then there are those sudden changes we didn’t plan for – re-structuring, redundancy or other major life events.

Even if we did have a plan early in our career, our circumstances, needs, priorities and values change, as we go through different life stages.  If that’s the case, it’s time to take a step back and re-evaluate.

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If you want to:

  • Get that next promotion
  • Transition effectively to a new role
  • Get your mojo back
  • Change direction but don’t know what to do
  • Find greater fulfilment at work
  • Find a new role after redundancy
  • Think about what to do in retirement
  • Your needs
  • Your values
  • What you want from life and work
  • Your strengths and how to leverage them
  • What you actually enjoy
  • How to be more confident and courageous
  • Being authentically you
  • Obstacles and how to get around them
  • How you are getting in your own way
  • What you can do differently to be more effective
  • Job search
  • Presenting your best self at interview
  • Interview questions and practice

Setting up coaching for success

There are a number of steps which I consider to be really important in ensuring that coaching is right for you and that you get the most out of the coaching we do together:

  • the opportunity for you to ask me any questions you may have about coaching itself and the process
  • a discussion to explore what you want to get out of it
  • a free taster session for you to experience what coaching with me is like, so you can decide if it’s right for you 
  • the taster session will also enable you to see how coaching can get you to where you want to be
  • a mid-coaching review to ensure you are getting what you want out of the coaching
  • an end-of-coaching discussion to reinforce key learnings and identify maintenance strategies
  • an end-of-coaching evaluation to measure success and achievement of goals

Coaching outcomes

Examples of actual coaching engagements and outcomes:

  • Coachee at career crossroads unsure of future
    Enabled coachee to re-connect with their personal values and what gave them meaning and purpose, understand their key strengths and what they enjoyed doing, resulting in coachee becoming re-engaged at work, motivated and clear on career direction
  • Driven professional seeking greater fulfilment from work
    Enabled coachee to clarify what was most important to them in life and work and to identify the type of work and situations where they felt most engaged. With renewed confidence, clarity and positivity the coachee embarked on their job search and obtained a new role which ticked the right boxes
  • Deflated redundant coachee looking to get their mojo back
    Helped talented individual whose confidence had taken a knock, after a re-organisation and redundancy, to re-build their sense of self-worth and confidence in their capability.  Coachee regained their former spark, presented themselves with confidence and authenticity at interview and obtained their ideal role