Career Coaching

So, you’re bored in your job. Perhaps you’ve been let go and made redundant. Or you’re feeling lost and wondering what to do about it. And it’s time to look for a new role or maybe even a new career.

And like colourful flowers in a meadow, there are lots of jobs that catch your eye. But how do you know which job is the right one for you? Ever thought of career coaching?

Career coaching is getting to know yourself better so that you can explore what you’ve done in the past and the present that lights you up and use this to discover what your next role can be.

What happens in career coaching?

As a licensed career coach, I use the Firework™ framework which has 3 core parts to it - Explore, Dream and Discover - and 60 practical exercises to give you the insight you need to find work that you love. It’s powerful and effective! When I work with clients we get creative, have juicy conversations, and they find a role that makes them smile. We spend time doing exercises that will benefit them depending on their need and how much career coaching they’d like to do.

Exploring your career potential

This is what happens in the explore bit:

My clients get to know themselves better: what their values are and who they are when they’re at their very best.

We answer questions like, what skills and talents do you love to use? What does meaningful work look like to you? What work have you done that fills you with pride?

Dreaming about new, rewarding jobs

Then we spend time dreaming. This is what happens in the dreaming bit:

My client brainstorm, and visualise, using what they’re learned about themselves from the work we’ve done in the exploring bit.

We answer questions like, what work themes are lighting you up? What range of career possibilities match with your strengths, skills and values? Which of these possibilities could you try out to see if they're a good fit?

Discovering if a new job works for you

Finally, we spend time discovering. By this point my client will have created a vision for a new role or career. In this part of the journey we create a plan to make that vision a reality.

We do things like, look at the current reality of my client’s role and make a bridge between that and their vision. From this vision we form an action plan with bite sized steps to take. My client tries out some “shift projects” to get practical experience of this new role, which involves: getting real experience doing this – voluntary, part time, shadowing others. Making sure these are relatively short and quick, think a few hours or few weeks, so that time isn’t wasted on something that’s not a good fit for you.

And that’s career coaching.

Packages for career coaching

How long do you need for career coaching? If you’re looking to make big changes in your career, the full programme and all 3 stages will give you the most benefit. That takes 12 x 1 hour coaching sessions. However, if you’ve some clarity on what you might like to explore as a career option, often a smaller package of 4 or 8 coaching sessions is all you need.

Curious to learn more? Drop me an email or book a free chemistry call.