Career Coaching with Insight HRM
What is Career Coaching?
Career coaches connect people with their passion, purpose, values and other critical aspects of their ideal work. They help their clients learn to manage their own careers – whether they work for themselves or for an organization. They equip their clients with career management skills that can be used in future transitions in addition to enhancing their current work.
Career coaching is an interactive process of exploring work-related issues – leading to effective action – in which the coach acts as both a catalyst and facilitator of individual and, in turn, organizational development and transformation.
Career coaches also facilitate the client’s process of developing and implementing a job search or business start-up plan to activate the client’s Authentic Vocation.™
Career Coaches
Connect people with a deeper level of motivation than "just a job;" clients discover their passion and purpose to guide their decisions, empowering them to choose work they love, make a good living and still have a balanced life
Distinguish themselves from career counselors and consultants by building career management skills, which enables the client to navigate future transitions
Probe for deeper levels of motivation that, when addressed, cause permanent QuantumShifts!™ rather than providing just a "quick fix"
Create effective coaching interactions by listening, providing feedback, asking powerful questions, observing and modeling
Remove blocks to career progress, such as self-limiting beliefs, incomplete awareness of marketable skills, lack of purpose and more
Improve clients' ability to market and sell themselves in the job market regardless of economic conditions
Increase individual potential for career growth and future earning power
Assist clients in becoming "career self-reliant," taking control and ownership of their own career development
Enhance their clients' job satisfaction through the discovery of their Authentic Vocation™
What is Authentic Vocation™?
Have you been feeling restless or discontented in your job? Like something is missing, but you don’t know what? The key may be a whole new approach to career development: Authentic Vocation™.
Authentic Vocation is an approach that is different from other skills-based approaches to identifying your calling or ideal work. Instead, it starts with your life purpose and builds a template for your ideal work from that critical base. “Authentic” means genuine, aligned with one’s essence; “Vocation” denotes a calling; a profession to which one is particularly suited; a life’s work, so “Authentic Vocation” is work that genuinely expresses people’s talents in ways that allow them to contribute fully.
Simply, the elements of Authentic Vocation are these:
1. Life Purpose
What is the purpose or mission of your life that must be expressed through your work?
2. Values
What values must be expressed in your work for optimal satisfaction?
3. Motivation and Interests
What motivates you to do your best? What areas are of interest to you?
4. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
What skills do you have that you want to continue using?
5. Work and Other Experience
What experience can you leverage in your next position?
6. Desired Job/Career
What job titles and/or industries would suit your goals?
7. Enviornment
What location, culture, and other factors would be critical in your work environment?
8. Business Reality
Is your target financially viable? Can you make a living at it? If not, what needs to be adjusted so you can?
The diagram in the link below illustrates how the first 7 elements are the template, and must be filtered through the 8th element to have a true Authentic Vocation. To discover your Authentic Vocation, you will need to be open to “synchronicity,” that is people and circumstances coming into your life to support your desire for clarity.
If you are seeking greater fulfillment at a job that also meets your financial needs and allows you to “have a life,” then Authentic Vocation coaching may be for you.
For more information, contact abergman@insighthrm.com or visit insighthrm.com.