Introduction
Career coaching can be a transformative experience, guiding individuals through the complex landscape of professional development. Whether you're just starting out, looking to advance, or considering a complete career change, career coaching can provide the support and insight needed to achieve your goals.
What is Career Coaching?
Career coaching involves working with a professional coach to identify career goals, develop a plan to achieve them, and navigate the challenges that arise along the way. Success Enabled's approach to career coaching is unique, focusing on matching the unique habits of the person to the habits needed to perform the career tasks. These career tasks are influenced by their surroundings and application. For example, the habits of an accountant running his own practice may vary significantly from an accountant employed by a corporate.
Habits of both the individual and those demanded by the career will change over time, especially with macro influences like the 4th industrial revolution. Therefore, career coaching is an ongoing process. It's like an athlete; the winners have coaches.
Benefits of Career Coaching
Self-awareness: Understand your habits and how to use them to your advantage.
Career alignment: Identify which career tasks best fit you and learn how to manage those that fit less.
Job satisfaction: Find a career path that aligns with your strengths and interests, bringing joy and fulfillment to your life, which we could call success.
Personal development: Enhance skills and competencies needed for career success.
Goal setting: Set realistic and achievable career goals.
Confidence building: Gain confidence in your career decisions and actions.
How Career Coaching Works
The career coaching process typically involves several steps:
Initial Assessment: Sign up with a Shadowmatch Career Coach who will invite you to complete the Shadowmatch worksheet. This step generates your Personal Feedback Report and Career Report.
Career Planning Sessions: Review your reports with your coach, create an optimal career summary, discuss different options, and test why your current job frustrates you. Together, you will explore possible optimal careers and develop a career plan.
Implementation: Engage in a series of coaching sessions to embark on a career success process and redirect your current career path towards an optimal future career.
For more information on how this works, you can watch the video on Shadowmatch's career coaching process here.
Personal Experience Career coaching helped me find the career that best fit my habits. Being a business developer best fits my habits, and I could adapt my continuous learning to fit future goals. With roses, thorns come—what I mean by this is that while I know what I want to do and why I want to do it, I am in a situation where I couldn't just flip a switch from one career path to the other. The career coaching helped me develop a plan to gradually migrate from my current career to the new career. In fact, as an entrepreneur, my career didn't really change, but rather the tasks I must do myself and the tasks that are best to delegate to team members or outsource. It's a journey.
Success Stories
Schoeman Farming: Schoeman Farming uses Success Enabled to optimally place people in key positions. This strategic placement has significantly improved productivity and job satisfaction within the organization.
Sondela Eggs: Through career coaching and workforce optimization strategies, Sondela Eggs experienced substantial growth in sales and improved team dynamics, showcasing the tangible benefits of career coaching.
Deltool: Career coaching at Deltool helped align their team’s personal habits with the company’s culture, leading to better fit and higher productivity.
Conclusion
Career coaching offers a personalized approach to professional development, ensuring that your career path is aligned with your strengths and goals. At Success Enabled, we are committed to helping you find the right career fit and achieve lasting success. If you're ready to transform your professional journey, contact us today to get started.
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