"Choose a career you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius
Career decisions and planning for the future can be challenging and scary in today’s fast paced world. The speed of technological advancement has led to automation, collaboration and globalisation in many industries and occupations, resulting in a complex, uncertain and unpredictable work economy, and a demand for flexible and innovative approaches to career planning, career choices and career development.
Career Coaching
How can coaching help with designing an ideal career?
Designing and navigating future proof career directions, choices, study pathways and career transitions that optimize a persons’ interests, skills, strengths and capabilities, is a strategic step by step process of exploration, creation, planning and building.
Coaching can provide a safe reflective space to explore, plan and build career strategies by helping to:
- Expand your self-awareness and identity.
- Clarify your purpose and your ”why”.
- Discover your motivational drivers, needs, values and preferences.
- Cultivate a growth mindset.
- Gain insight into potential careers that align with your values, interests and personality.
- Develop emotional skills to thrive and survive in complexity.
- Empower you to make informed career decisions.
What do you need to design and build your ideal career?
- Willingness to explore and experiment.
- Openness to new perspectives and possibilities.
- A resilient attitude.
- Curiosity.
- Creativity.
- Courage.
What career services do we offer?
- Career design, planning, strategy and guidance.
- Identify the type of careers that best suit your interests, values and personality style.
- Pinpoint knowledge and skills gaps.
- Examine study pathways and options.
- Exploring ideal work environments, tasks and roles.
- Strengths profiling.
- Values clarification and alignment.
- Emotional and social intelligence skills.
- Future proof learning and development plans.
- Career progression and advancement plans.
- Resume and career profiles.
- Goal setting and action plans.
- Support during implementation of plans.
Who can benefit from career coaching?
- High school leavers.
- University students and graduates.
- Adults looking to make career changes.
- Organisations focused on staff development and retention.
- Executives planning career progression.
- Mothers re-entering the workforce.
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein
How does the career coaching process work?
There are typically 7 steps in building and designing your ideal career.
#1 Career assessments and data gathering.
#2 Analysis and debrief of assessments, data and unique profile.
#3 Examination of thought patterns, dysfunctional beliefs, limiting behaviours and potential barriers.
#4 Developing strategic action plans that align with values, personality, purpose and strengths.
#5 Exploring and experimenting in the field.
#6 Feedback and refining of strategic action plan based on field experience,
additional information and learnings.
#7 Intentional commitment to action the plan and start career building.
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