27 September 2024 Career Coach: a valuable ally for your professional development
The Career Coach can be a valuable ally in your professional development because he can guide you through a personalised process to clarify how to develop your skills and use them increasingly in your profession.
Career Coach and Professional Development
This is what one usually does with a Career Coach:
- personal reflections and insights: Through the exchange of considerations and reasoning, aspirations, interests, skills, values and personalities emerge and become clear.
- definition of objectives: together, clear, achievable, and measurable career goals are set, including an improvement plan that builds on strengths.
- development of an action plan: Together, a customised strategy is worked out to achieve the set goals, including concrete steps, deadlines and resources.
- support and motivation: moments of discouragement may occur during the professional change process and the coach's support comes in the form of overcoming obstacles and maintaining motivation and concentration.
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Why Career Coach is a valuable ally for your professional development
The support of a coach serves to move forward more quickly and in a more focused manner with respect to the needs that arise along the way throughout a career, as well as to overcome difficulties that may unexpectedly arise.
In the long run, professional development and evolution at work occur by reflecting and clarifying progressively:
- what one intends to do as one's skills and competences grow;
- what you decide to express in your work that changes with you;
- the way of processing the events of working life, whatever they may be;
- behaviours to be implemented to feel fulfilled.
These reflections enable the initiation of actions and plans to accompany one's own development and reach turning points in a concrete and conscious manner.
Career Coach: the ally in your improvement
One of the most important activities in a career with a career coach is identification of their strengths and areas for improvement.
It is a process to achieve awareness of one's abilities in order to be able to make the best use of them at work as well.
E' a practice of self-reflection with different activities to be carried out progressively.
Certainly, it is a process that can also be carried out independently, however seeking the support of a coach makes it easier to maintaining focus and remain consistent with personal objectives.
Discover the 5 steps for improvement
Brainstorming:
Think about your experiences, both positive and negative: remember times when you were successful, reflect on times when you encountered difficulties.
Write down ideas:
Write down all the words and concepts that came to your mind during the brainstorming. Don't worry about organising them or judging them at this stage.
Evaluate ideas:
For each concept that invokes something to be improved, consider how much it is hindering you and what you can do to change.
Ask for feedback:
Ask people who know you for honest feedback on both your strengths and weaknesses and decide what you want to do with them
Use your discoveries:
Use your findings and work to further increase your knowledge and skills.
It is important periodically review your self-assessment to make sure it is accurate and up-to-date.
As you gain new experiences and learn new things, you might discover new strengths and aspects to improve as well.
Conclusion: your professional development together with the Career Coach
Working with a Career Coach helps to adapt, grow, and improve in a changing world of work, which increasingly requires a combination of flexible skills, attitudes and mindsets.
It is not only a matter of identifying the activities in the job that most closely align with one's potential and abilities, but also of prepare oneself for the changes that may occur throughout one's career.
A Career Coach supports the personal work needed to consciously directing the career identifying and enhancing one's strengths and working towards ever greater improvement.
Thank you for reading this article.
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