Leaps and Bounds – Careers, Life & Coaching

Have you been out of the workforce for some time and unsure of where to start?

Are you reconsidering your career aspirations and ready to embark on a new journey?

With Hybrid working at the forefront of how we work, are you seeking ways to differentiate work from personal time?

With the increased demands on our everyday lives, are you looking for a coach who can help clarify your goals, identify obstacles, and implement strategies to help you overcome these challenges?

Are you a school or university leaver considering your career path?

Over the past few years, our work environments have changed significantly. Many of us have found ourselves needing and wanting to re-enter the workforce after being out of it for some time. For some of us, the changes in the way we work has been a great catalyst and opportunity to reflect on whether we are happy with our current work arrangements or whether it is time to seek different and new work prospects.  

The way we work will continue to replicate that of a hybrid model. 

Whilst this model leans itself to greater agility and flexibility, the challenge can often be how we effectively delineate between work and our personal life. Often our personal goals and life aspirations take a back seat to our demanding work lives. And yet sometimes, we find ourselves immersed in life’s demands, juggling family commitments, ensuring we have some type of social life, whilst squeezing in exercise for our “fitness and well-being”!!! All the while forgoing the critical opportunity to sit, think and ask ourselves if we are truly happy with our careers, work/life balance and aspirations.

Career and Life Coaching is a great way to address some of the above questions and/or aspirations. It is one of the great opportunities you, as a client, get to focus wholeheartedly on yourself, your challenges, desires and ambitions. Career and life coaching is a highly interactive, experiential and personal interaction between client and coach. The sessions are goal orientated, often fun, results focused and operate according to a strength-based model. In other words, identifying a client’s strengths and using those strengths to improve their areas of development. 

Some of the areas you and your coach may work on are:

·      Recognising behavioural strengths, areas for development and innate motivations

·      Identifying the right job role, resume writing, interview readiness, skills and presentation

·      Work/life balance goals

·      Identifying roadblocks in your career or personal life and working in partnership to identify and apply strategies to overcome them

·      Developing ways to positively manage difficult interactions

·      Personal and professional growth opportunities

Coaching is not just for current incumbents of work. It is also a wonderful way for school and university leavers to investigate, discuss and narrow in on their imminent and future work/life possibilities.

Exiting years of the familiarity and comforts of study and entering a world of unknown possibilities can be both exciting and overwhelming. Coaching offers clients a level of comfort, focus, expectation, and positivity for our young workers of the future and the many adventures they will encounter throughout life. Don’t be fooled, for the best results, participation in coaching requires a great deal of commitment, dedication, time and reflection. 

Engagement, accountability, and positivity are a few of the behaviours that make coaching outcomes a huge success. 

So the bottom line is, if your heart and mind aren’t in it, this may not be the right time. Give it a shot when you’re ready to launch into the bubble of “all about you”! However, if you’re curious, inquisitive, ready for change, have a growth mindset and up to challenging yourself, career and life coaching is a great tool and investment in identifying future opportunities and ambitions to achieve your goals!