Career Coaching

Working with a Coach is invaluable  to explore where your career is going.  Coaches are independent of your organisation, and your key relationships.  Your company may have ideas around where they see your future path, and your friends and family will support you but they also might be carrying preconceived ideas of your future.  The coach just listens and lets you discover where your hopes and dreams are directed.

I see a lot of Clients at crossroads in their careers and by talking to me they can evaluate in a safe place where to go.  All of us fear stepping out of a comfort zone into a growth zone but with a Cheerleader/Coach it helps to make it feel less daunting. 

I reference the Squiggly Career book by Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, where they explain that there is no such thing as the linear career path.  We now embark on many different routes or squiggles.  Whilst this is excellent the uncertainty of stepping out of a corporate world to a startup or even setting up your own business can be very frightening.  The role of the coach is to find what matters most.

Using the formula from Squiggly Career, they identify 5 key skills:-

1. Super Strengths - taking time to identify what they are and when and where you get the chance to deploy them
2. Values - What makes you? - YOU
3. Confidence - How high is your self belief in what you can offer?
4. People - People help People - so who do you know to make the role work for you?
5. Future Possibilities - not just looking at the role in isolation thinking about where it will take you

Within the book there is a section to identify your Super Strengths, by thinking when you have been successful at something, and the frequency of how often you were able to use this.  Most importantly did you actually enjoy using the strength, we often fall into the trap of doing something as we are good but do we actually enjoy it.

Values are the very making of YOU,  I would also direct you to the Dare to Lead by Brené Brown website, where there is an excellent Values exercise to download.  Identifying just two values, and seeing whether a role will feed those values on a daily basis is hugely rewarding and crucial to what makes us tick.  As an example my own our "Making a Difference" and "Achievement".

Working with a coach we can talk about where your confidence levels are currently and create gradual steps to take you out of your comfort zone into growth zone.  The coach will not let you leap into a panic zone!

Finding a new role is very much about your existing network and this is a skill of constantly developing relationships in and outside of work, as you never know where your career may go?

Finally the future possibilities, are beyond the role and beyond the company... Thinking beyond , what do other horizons offer, in or outside your industry.  What life do you want to live? mapping your job around life not trying to fit your life around job.

I always say to my Clients, you have to constantly be attractive to your existing company and your future prospects.  This means that you need to be constantly learning and developing so that you are appealing.  Developing your knowledge, your relationships and being confident that you are attractive.

Please do reach out for a one to one coaching session bev@nuggetsoflearning.co.uk