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"I've been doing this job for too long. I need a change, but what to?"
"I've always wanted to set up my own business. I feel I'm running out of time, so how I do I get this process underway?"
"I made quick progress in the early years of my career, but have flatlined for a while and have lost my zest. How do I reinvigorate my career?"
"Despite the best of intentions, I am still working all hours and feel I am neglecting my family, friends and other aspects of my life. How do I get out of this rut?"
"I've been out of the job market for several years bringing up my children. I want to get back on the career ladder, but feel I have lost my confidence. How do I rebuild it and seek out the right role?"
Janie Links is an experienced career coach, helping numerous high-performing individuals to overcome career challenges. She has worked with strategy consultants, partners at professional services and private equity firms, MBAs, marketing executives and others.
Why Use a Coach?
Few people, if any, can boast a stratospheric career trajectory, followed by years of continued fulfilment and smooth progress until contented retirement. Fallow periods are inevitable. Enlisting the help of a coach can breathe new life and energy into a career that is lacking direction and purpose.
In what way does a coach help to achieve this objective?
- Accountability: The coach and coachee will agree action points for the latter to accomplish between each session. Concrete deadlines and the presence of someone to answer to result in the small steps of progress that in turn ultimately lead to more fundamental advancement. Without the accountability a coach provides, good intentions can easily fade into inertia.
- Reflection: The coaching process sets aside a reserved time for the reappraisal of personal values and career goals that otherwise might not take place, leaving the individual to drift to an undesired destination.
- Commitment: The very act of hiring a coach signals a renewed intention to confront personal challenges, and can thereby ignite motivational momentum.
- Sounding board: A coach can respond to new ideas, provoking discussion, challenging thinking and requesting further investigation, so that the idea's potential is exhaustively tested.
