What do you do if you need guidance on self-reflection and self-assessment during a career transition?

The "Mindful Pause" involves carving out dedicated time for introspection & self-assessment, allowing individuals to pause amidst the hustle & bustle of transitions. One exemplary project where I applied this method was during a career pivot initiative within my organization. Amidst the transition, I introduced regular "Mindful Pause" sessions where team members could reflect on their career aspirations, strengths & areas for growth. During these sessions, participants engage in mindfulness practices such as meditation, journaling, or guided reflection exercises. These activities facilitate deep introspection, enabling individuals to gain clarity on their career goals, values, and priorities, fostering resilience & emotional well-being.

That is a time for introspection ( meditation and mindfulness) and deciding on what I need to discard, keep, add, or build. This has always been a technique I have always used in my life, career, relationship, etc. It brings me to self-awareness.

Based on my experience one of the key reasons to transition career is a dissonance of internal values with your current career path. You can often feel that in the form of fatigue, internal frustration, sometimes even burnout. Thus, mindfulness and self-awareness can help to identify the reason of this dissonance, which values do not match and what you can do to change them.

Drawing from my extensive corporate experience and involvement in projects geared towards personal development, I advocate for the "Envision Success" approach as an effective method. Incorporating this method into your career transition involves visualizing your ideal outcome and crafting a clear vision of success. One project where I applied this method was during a team restructuring initiative within my organization. Amidst the transition, I encouraged team members to envision their desired career paths and articulate their goals. The "Envision Success" method entails setting aside dedicated time to reflect on your aspirations, strengths, and areas for development.

Seeking feedback during career transition is essential, because your mind has formed thinking patterns, neural paths based on our previous experiences, and to change them you need first to identify and acknowledge them and then repetitively create new ones. External feedback can help to independently identify them, then observe different thinking patterns of others and train yourself to think differently.