Career Coaching for Success

Almost everyone—whether you are an individual contributor or an executive leading other professionals —can benefit from career coaching. In the following section, we will cover a broad range of scenarios where you can benefit from engaging an executive or career coach. (The title of the coach just depends on where you are in your career.)

Here are some scenarios in which career coaching can have a significant impact on your career:

Setting yourself up for a promotion or new job

Olympic champions hire coaches because their goals and ambitions in sports go way beyond people who just dabble in a sport. Similarly, if you are serious about your career goals compared to other individuals at your level, you need to do what it takes to set yourself apart. Someone with a long career in coaching can help you assess where you are, where you want to get in your organization, and what is the best course of action to take. They will also stay with you as an accountability partner to make sure you keep your eyes on the prize.  

Long-term career planning

Similarly, you may be looking beyond your current position or even profession and are wondering what kind of work will get you excited. A career or executive coach can lead you through a process of determining this. Once you decide, you’ll need to know what will be required not only to make a transition but also to excel in your new profession, and a good career coach can help with both.

Or, if you are seeking a higher-level role in your existing profession, you’ll want to determine how to achieve that. Again, engaging someone with a successful coaching career can help you stay focused on those goals and navigate around the challenges you will encounter. That is how a career coach can help not only with your plans but also with making sure you achieve your goals in record time, while enjoying that journey of growth.

Managing up

According to Harvard Business Review, managing up is about “being the most effective employee you can be, creating value for your boss and your company.” Engaging a career coach can help you turn your daily work into a healthy, successful, and rewarding endeavor. This endeavor will not only benefit everyone involved but will also inspire them to become your champions who advocate for your rapid career success.

Leading people to achieve goals

President Eisenhower defined leadership as “the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” A career coach can help you master this art, applying it to your self-mastery, as well as to motivating others to fully support the achievement of your goals.

Resolving interpersonal conflicts at work

Becoming emotional about personal conflicts drains your energy, and the first casualty of that energy drain is your ability to creatively resolve conflicts to everyone’s benefit. Your career coach can help you step back from the stress of those conflicts and discover new perspective on how you can get what you want—not at the expense of others but with their full support.

Working effectively with people of different styles

One of the first benefits of career coaching is an appreciation of your own personality style—your strengths and pitfalls. Your career coach will help you develop a keen eye on how to observe these traits in your daily activities and how to act in a way to fully leverage those strengths. But even more importantly, your career coach will help you become more aware of other people’s styles. The benefit of this is that instead of approaching differences emotionally, you can leverage those differences to build a high-performing team to work with.  

Taming a toxic workplace

As a team leader or an executive, there can be nothing more frustrating than inheriting a toxic work environment. Your career coach or your executive coach can help you introduce the practice of talent optimization to such a workplace. Using scientific people data, you will not only quickly determine the roots of dysfunction but can also implement strategies to overcome them. If you are an individual contributor, your career coach can give you ideas for presenting your leadership with talent optimization solutions. These solutions will help them transform a toxic workplace into a harmonious one or an under-performing team into a high-performing one, and you will be the hero who inspired this.

Growing from feedback

Becoming aware of our blind spots is a good start, but proactively leveraging that awareness is essential for growing as a professional. Someone seasoned in career coaching will introduce you to new strategies to leverage feedback in a constructive way, even if it was delivered in an unconstructive way by a manager or colleague.

Harnessing your strengths to overcome obstacles

Our career coaching practice is provided by professionals seasoned in coaching careers who are armed with scientific people data. Harnessing this combination leaves no guesswork in charting a path where career growth equates with daily happiness, as well as financial rewards. Every obstacle will become another fun opportunity to sharpen your skills and expedite your career success.

Cost-benefit analysis on getting more qualifications

Should you invest tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention invaluable hours, in training, certifications, or a higher degree, or are there better strategies to accelerate your career success? Your career coaching partner will leverage years of experience working with other executives and professionals in your situation, as well as objective data to help you make this decision. They will help you conduct a realistic trade-off analysis as to what path would make the most sense for your unique situation.

Career coaching may not be worth it if you have not clarified your goals and why those goals are important to you. On the other hand, you can work with a career coach to discover what is really important to you and become fully aligned with the prospect of achieving those goals. When you are in that state, career coaching will be priceless, because you will live your life excitedly and in anticipation of what you have defined as most important to you. When you get excited about your goals, a few things happen: your focus sharpens, you operate in the flow, and rather than dissuading you, obstacles challenge you to be more creative in pursuing your path. Is it worth it to live a life of excitement as you continuously reach and set higher goals that bring you happiness?   

Yes. We have had clients all over the world; location makes no difference. Coaching services are typically done by Zoom, and we have both noon-time and evening times Eastern available to accommodate different time zones.

Yes, we do! The service includes a video, written guide, and 90-minute mock interview with coaching by President Katherine Akbar—the world’s only Interview Aikido coach—and is 397. Check our reviews to see how much people love and benefit from this.

Of course! We’ve had many clients sponsored by someone who cares about them. We recommend that that person be involved in the consultation to give us information and think about what they most need. If you have a limit on what you’re willing to spend, we can limit the conversation to those services, or we can discuss pricing separately if you want to keep it secret.

If your LinkedIn profile is search engine optimized for the kind of position you want, recruiters/headhunters will find you there when they have a job that seems right for you. Our clients who get our LinkedIn service are contacted by 8 recruiters on average! While contacting recruiters/headhunters isn’t usually a great use of your time—unless they specialize in your field—we do give you contact information for at least 14 of them in the guide we provide with your drafts.  While our coaches are not recruiters, you will receive career coaching from professionals with a minimum of 8 years of coaching career. Our senior career coaches have had even longer coaching careers and in addition to careers in coaching most have had decades of experience as executives and business leaders. So while we do not place people, your career coach may have recommendations regarding specific companies and individuals to reach out to.

Yes, there is, if you get a career coaching package that gives you all the tools you will need.

For smaller packages, you receive a satisfaction guarantee. If you require any changes to your resume, cover letter, or LinkedIn profile to make them perfect for the job you provided as a sample, we will take care of those for free.

You will receive these guarantees in writing in our Professional Services Agreement. To get started, schedule your free Career Success Consultation here.