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How's Work?

 

Are you tired and bored of your current employment position?

Have you worked in the same industry or maintained the same role for some time and you'd like a career change but you're unsure as to what to do?

Does your career lack direction - do you find yourself questioning what is the next step in your career path?

Are you returning to the workforce after a period of absence and you're not sure what to do upon your return? 

Are you focused in your career direction but struggling to balance life at work and home?

These are just some of the types of questions that can be addressed by a Career Coach.

 

What Is Career Coaching?

Together we create an interactive relationship that explores work-related issues in your life.  As Career Coaches, we act as catalysts for change and help to facilitate individual development and transformation.

Career Coaches carry out the following functions:

• We aim to connect you with a deeper level of motivation so that work becomes more meaningful and fulfilling.  You will discover your passion and purpose, designing a career solution centred around work that is compelling.

• We aim to enhance your job satisfaction through the identification of a vocation that's suited to you.

• We aim to facilitate the development of career management skills so that you are empowered to manage both present and future career decisions.

• We aim to investigate and remove any roadblocks to your career progress, such as self-limiting beliefs, lack of purpose/direction and an incomplete awareness of your transferrable skills, natural talents and abilities that make you marketable.

• We aim to increase your individual potential for career growth and future earning power.

• We aim to help you manage change effectively.

• We aim to facilitate insightful interactions through active listening, providing feedback, asking effective questions and observing your responses.

• We aim to help you achieve a desired balance between your work and personal life.   

 

 

Career Coaching Techniques

Many techniques are employed to explore your work-related issues and to provide insights that instigate change.

Some of the key methodologies for career change are described below:

• Authentic Vocation (Developed by Master Coach Marcia Bench, 2001) - Through a series of self-reflection worksheets and coaching sessions we capture the variable components that determine your career success and fulfillment.  Insights from this self-discovery process inform your career-making decisions and empower you to confidently design/identify a true vocation in life.

• Personality Type Profiling (Based off Myer-Briggs and the Career Development work of Paul Tieger and Barbara Herron, 1992) - Through a series of coaching sessions we determine the fixed components or innate characteristics that identify your personality type.  This is the raw data required by a career satisfaction formula that produces a range of career options matching your profile.

• Process of Elimination - Through the use of a Career Evaluation Worksheet and coaching sessions we use the components discovered through our earlier methodologies to identify one authentic career via a process-of-elimination.

• Career In Vision and Motion - Once you have identified your career change, we create a vision that will provide you with the sustained motivation required to stay on track.  With your destination in mind, we discuss techniques to validate the vision and to produce a map on how best to navigate the journey,  enabling you to arrive at your desired destination. 

 

Career Resources

Please find below career-related resources that may be of assistance to you.  (As an Amazon Affiliate, we receive referral income from any purchases you have made via our website - thank you.)

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