18. in the search of purpose...

Category: Career and Purpose

18.

What is career coaching?
And what brings people to career coaching?

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​'Do what you love, love what you do’  is the Instagram career advice that personally, I find slightly annoying. We spend more than 2000 hours per year working, no matter what we do - we will not love every hour of it.
Career coaching is a professional service designed that helps you look at all your strengths, set goals that are meaningful to you and figure out the whole process of making a change - lasting change.

Coaches - together with you - identify the topic and set an outcome that is both meaningful and inspiring, and then help you through various techniques make the shifts that are needed.

The most common reasons people come to our sessions are:

• Career changes: Moving to a new role, getting a promotion, looking for something new or starting a business.
• Stagnation: Feeling stuck and needing a fresh perspective on their own growth. A common word that comes up lately is purpose.
• Clarity: Unsure of career direction or wanting to align their job with personal values, they need momentum to make a change.
• Skill development: Building team management skills, improving confidence, and very often - presentational and negotiation skills.
• Work-life balance: This is by far the most popular topic - struggling to find harmony, to keep boundaries, to manage stress and anxiety.
  
  

At the end of our work together, most people are genuinely surprised how much changed with what seemed small changes they committed to.

Oh, I struggle with this work life balance aspect too.
     I hear you. You are not alone…