How can a career coach help you make your career plan?

When a professional takes a step towards a career transition or career shift a career change coach can use a well-defined framework to help the professional define their career goals. The coach wants to make sure that one's career goals are in alignment with career change the professional is considering. Once that is verified the transition coach can help the professional to develop a career plan and then start working toward landing jobs that are in line with those goals.

How can the coach support you in executing your plan?

A career change is especially challenging when a professional is actively doing one kind of work while also trying to implement a career transition. It is during these career transitions that the coach can play a very important role as an accountability partner. Coaches can help the client to "show up" and act consistently toward achieving the goals they have set with the assistance of their coach. When a professional is working on their own, it is common to run into challenges that at the time may appear insurmountable. This is a difficult experience when one wants to change career and may lead to losing confidence in one's ability to make the transition. During such career change the coach can help to maintain perspective and not lose sight of the fact that setbacks and challenges are a natural part of the career change process.

Do all career coaches work with career change clients?

Any coach can work with career change clients. But some coaches, especially those who coach through our practice are specialized in career change cases. Because of the extensive experience in the field and the frameworks we have developed it is easier for our coaches to identify patterns, recommend winning strategies and coach toward expeditious outcomes. 

Is flexjobs a good resource for you?

As a career coach associated with our practice, we do not endorse any particular platform. However, if our coaches determine that as part of your career goal flexjobs, remote jobs and other special requirements are in what you are looking for your coach will have no objection to you exploring all kinds of platforms that present those opportunities to you.

Can coaching help improve work-life balance where you work? 

Work-life balance is definitely an area where your career coach can coach you to overcome the patterns that lead to those imbalances and help you mentally and practically re-frame your behavior without fear of loss or other perceived threats or pleasures that lead to those behaviors. Your coach will remind you and support you with this challenge during the transition which by its nature creates more demand on one's time outside of work that you can dedicate to career transitions.     

How can you make your past work contribution count towards a new career?

An important contribution that your coach can make to your journey is to help you find different ways you can translate your experience in your current work into assets that you can leverage in your new profession. This takes some time and some discussions with your career coach but it is one of the important steps in your transition. In our coach practice, we have developed a career guide in the form of an online course that your coach can make available to you that can further assist you along with the work you are doing with your coach to discover and elaborate on these ideas.

1. Prior to the first session, you complete three items: personality assessment, Career Strategy Assignment 1, and your career worksheet.
2. Using this information and our conversation, we identify your strengths and weaknesses, career preferences, skills, timeline, etc.
3. For clients who are considering a career change, you use our proprietary tool to narrow down the best options, based on the above criteria.
4. Using your personality information and your goals, we jointly agree on your branding strategy and an implementation plan that works for you.
5. We teach and coach you on our Executive Access and Networking Genius techniques to break into positions that are not even advertised.
6. We identify where you are stuck, make course corrections, and use our Inner Game technology make sure you remain motivated to succeed.
7. We teach you what to ask and listen for in your interviews to get data that help you negotiate better compensation.
8. We discuss your performance in interviews and how successfully you applied our Interview Aikido techniques.
9. When you are offered a position, we review the offer and plan your negotiation strategy to get the best deal.
10. When you are starting your new job, we coach you on strategies to position you for job satisfaction and rapid promotion..