Career coaching:
the key to professional fulfilment
Career coaching has become as commonplace for career changes as mental training for top athletes. The importance of well-thought-out career planning is often underestimated, but crucial decisions can have a decisive influence on the course of your professional development. If you want to improve your decisions in a professional context, be it for more job satisfaction or to realise your dreams, an experienced sparring partner and mentor coach will be of great benefit to you. This is because it is helpful to identify your career anchors, develop appropriate strategies and expand your networks in order to shape your career path in a targeted manner. High-quality career coaching focuses on your career path that is congruent with your life goals and helps you to find the meaning and fulfilment that you may already be looking for.
A narrow and a broad view. Career coaching changes your view of your career:
Traditionally, careers are often seen as a linear progression within an organisation - as a kind of ‘chimney’ that leads steadily upwards or as a career path characterised by status and social recognition. This view is justified and is often what people see as a career move. However, a broader perspective on career also takes into account the multitude of professional stages, the development of special expertise and the individual biography. The aim of career coaching is to arrive in an area that allows you and your skills to flourish, creates meaning and provides satisfaction as the next step. Of course, there are also cases where it is worth taking a new path when it becomes clear that you are attracted to other goals. The ideal state is when the position and role, as well as the content and challenges of the area of responsibility as work, represent a balance with the phase of life and life goals. Then the ability to work and the ability to love enter into an alliance and make a resourceful contribution to a fulfilled personal life. For such a path, we need deep work so that you can really feel what needs to be worked on, where the blockages are and where you want to go.
The advantages of excellent career coaching
Excellent career coaching helps you relatively quickly to recognise your current resources and skills, your life goals and needs, to work on the beliefs that are blocking you and to check your own value system for consistency: find out what really inspires you, which strengths you would like to and could use effectively and what you really enjoy doing. Discovering your personal career anchors - i.e. the factors that are important to you, that motivate and fulfil you - is central to this.
Typical situations in which career coaching can be useful include
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Functional changes: A promotion offered, a promotion sought or a succession
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Job loss: Loss due to redundancy or staff reduction
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Skill enhancement: Expanding your skills through new qualifications
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Dissatisfaction: Strong dissatisfaction in the current position
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Life and meaning crises: Personal crises that affect your professional situation
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Network building: Building strategic, social and mental networks
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Career planning with career coaching: Development of immediate measures and medium-term professional goals
Use career coaching and consider turning points as the start of a new life
If you are at a turning point in your career or no longer feel a sense of purpose in your work, this is the ideal time to hire a career coach just for you. This is much more effective than hoping for years to improve. Your career change can be an opportunity for a fresh start in your life and this can be a departure into a new life that reflects your goals and makes you happy. Sometimes not so much needs to be changed and relief comes from the fact that previously unused resources can be activated, but sometimes the detachment and build-up processes into a new life take a little longer. Now is the time to seize the opportunity and plan, take and enjoy the next steps with professional career coaching.
When we work in person, the coachees usually come from the immediate regional area such as Bonn, Cologne, Koblenz, Aachen and Düsseldorf. In some cases, I also travel and come on site if it can't be organised otherwise. Face2face sometimes has its advantages, of course I also offer career coaching online, internationally, interculturally, interreligiously in German and English.